Opportunity 1: Resources and Toolboxes
Support our digital food voucher drive!
DGMT DIGITAL FOOD VOUCHER DRIVE Please consider donating a R200 digital voucher to a family in need and/or to support our donation drive (find resources below this poster). For detailed banking particulars and SnapScan QR code please click here. Please help us to advocate for digital food vouchers and to drive for donations in your […]
Posted on 29 May 2020
Call to zero-rate mobile data to allow early learning and education to continue
DOWNLOAD THE ‘CALL TO ZERO-RATE DATA’ PRESS RELEASE HERE. The DG Murray Trust calls on mobile network operators to urgently zero-rate the services of all public benefit organisations (PBOs) that provide digital content for early learning and education. In this way, preschool and schooling will be able to continue to some extent, reaching children on […]
Posted on 18 Mar 2020
Hands-on Learning Issue 16
Through our Hands-on Learning publication, we hope to play a helpful role in synthesising information from innovators and implementers in civil society, supporting them to share what they have learned so that others are able to draw from and build on their experiences. In this issue: Online communication is a powerful tool that can speak […]
Posted on 20 Feb 2020
Evaluation and statistics: Growing confidence while being comfortable with uncertainty
Much money and resources are invested in social development in South Africa. Ultimately, we want to know the impact of all this effort and investment. We need to know if the programmes and initiatives we implement and champion make the difference in people’s lives they are intended to make. Evaluation and statistics are tools to […]
Posted on 6 Dec 2019
Hands-on Learning Issue 15
Through our Hands-on Learning publication, we hope to play a helpful role in synthesising information from innovators and implementers in civil society, supporting them to share what they have learned so that others are able to draw from and build on their experiences. In this issue: In addition to its core business, the Renewable Energy […]
Posted on 27 Nov 2019
Alcohol Harms Reduction
Billions of Rands are invested in social development in South Africa. Tens of thousands of people in government and civil society pour their lives into trying to improve society. But it seems like a Sisyphean task – pushing boulders up a hill only to see them roll back down again and again. One of the […]
Posted on 20 Nov 2019
Hands-on Learning Issue 14
Through our Hands-on Learning publication, we hope to play a helpful role in synthesising information from innovators and implementers in civil society, supporting them to share what they have learned so that others are able to draw from and build on their experiences. In this issue: Dynamic networks are amplifier strategies that enable social innovators […]
Tags: Activate!, Build simple loving connections for every child, Caregivers, child abuse, Child vulnerability, Clowns without Borders, Communities free of violence, Drive public innovation by reigniting civil society, drop-out, Educational drop-out, Embrace, Family Support Programmes, Grade 12, grow great, Hands-on Learning, Learning Brief, Nal'ibali, Networks, Networks as amplifiers of social impact, Opportunity 1, Opportunity 10, Opportunity 7, PATCH, PIRLS, Prevention of fatal child abuse, School drop-out, Simple loving connections, Smart Start, Smartstart, social capital, support young people, Supporting young people, Violence, Violence against children, Youth, Zero Dropout Schools Initiative
Posted on 12 Jul 2019
Introducing: Improvise – A publication for the Fellowship for Organisational Innovation
Passionate, imaginative, critical thinkers are one of civil society’s greatest assets. But too often the young talent in civil society organisations are not grown to fill the middle management gaps or to take on increasingly bigger leadership responsibilities. In recognition of this, DGMT launched a Fellowship for Organisational Innovation in 2018. This Fellowship has 3 […]
Tags: Civil Society, Drive public innovation by reigniting civil society, Fellowship, Fellowship for Organisational Innovation, Innovation, Opportunity 1
Posted on 29 Apr 2019
Hands-on Learning Issue 13
“We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom” reads a quote by E.O. Wilson, who wrote the book, ‘Consilience: The unity of knowledge’. Through the newly revived and rebranded edition of our Hands-on Learning publication, we hope to play a helpful role in synthesising information from innovators and implementers in civil society, supporting them […]
Tags: Early literacy Development, Embrace, Hands-on Learning, Implementation Experience, Mobile technology
Posted on 16 Jan 2019
How not to trip up on the digital highway: Lessons from social innovators developing e-platforms
Almost every household in South Africa has access to a mobile phone[1]. This has transformed the face of social development, with many non-governmental organisations (NGOs) embracing mobile technology to connect with their target audiences. In this learning brief, we explore the diverse opportunities – but also challenges – that come with using mobile platforms […]
Tags: cost of data, data cost, Drive public innovation by reigniting civil society, e-platforms, Food Forward SA, FunDza, Hands-on Learning, Innovation edge, JosStartes, Learning Brief, mobi sites, mobile apps, mobile space, Mobile technology, Mosaic, Opportunity 1, Praekelt, Redink, Reigniting Civil Society, smart-phone apps, smartphone apps, social innovators, The Reach Trust, Waves for Change
Posted on 16 Jan 2019
