The CSI Toolkit

CSI Solutions has published The CSI Toolkit, a practical "how-to" guide on investing CSI (Corporate Social Investment) funds effectively. It is the first publication of its kind in South Africa and provides invaluable information on the process, from developing a strategy to identifying, planning, managing and exiting community development projects.

The publication involved a collaborative research process that included interviews with 100 major players in the CSI field.  Based on this, it provides information around impact, sustainability, partnerships, social facilitation, capacity building and communicating your CSI activities. It encourages practitioners to actively engage in the process, learn from experiences and make the most informed decisions to develop sustainable projects.

The Toolkit is aimed at grant-makers, not only corporates with big CSI budgets, but also SMEs that are exploring CSI opportunities. NGOs too can gain value from the information by understanding grant-makers’ expectations. It reflects the effect on beneficiaries at grass roots level, and promotes the practical alignment of business reality with social investment opportunities.

CGF is proud to be associated with The CSI Toolkit published by CSI Solutions (Pty) Ltd.  This user friendly, jargon-free toolkit has been developed as a starting point for ensuring professionalism of a growing industry and to assist CSI practitioners to follow a methodological approach to their social development practices. Each chapter has been through a robust process of being researched, developed, work-shopped, dialogued and reviewed by a host of people within the industry.  We have developed and consolidated the templates, checklists, questions and approaches that you can use to understand the broader context of CSI and then identify, plan and manage the programmes that will assist community development projects to be initiated and supported by companies, and sustained by communities.

By being associated with CGF, you can purchase The CSI Toolkit at a discounted rate.  (See the CGF price you are entitled to.)