Income Generation

How does C4L support itself as a nonprofit?

C4L tries to maintain its own baseline income, in such a way that private donations and grants add value.  This is because donations and grant funding tend to be occasional, not regular.

Multiple income streams

In South Africa, nonprofits are constantly being challenged to look for "social enterprises" to generate some of their own income.  Here are some ways that we try to do this:

• Growing "tree spinach" (our guava trees are all gone, we now have over 1000 spinach trees)
  
• Rental incomes from homes on its campus
• Selling our print-media publications (old and new)
• Selling our videos for training leaders and managers
  
• Selling thematic calendars (African heroes of faith)
• Selling our podcasts
• Motivational speaking engagements
  

This website starts at this level of self-support and then goes deeper and deeper into C4L's layers of resourcing.

Publications List

• Leading Groups in Civil Society R100
  
• Managing People and Resources R100
  
• Managing Work R100

• Issue #1  Election Fever  R50
• Issue #2  Tweaking Democracy  R50
  
• Issue #3  Banana Republics  R50

Still in the Pipeline...

But we are already taking orders:

Vote of Thanks

It is incumbant on us to note that the following Donors assisted C4L with production costs for some of its publication, namely:

• Tearfund UK
• Canadian International Development Agency
  
• The Kellogg Foundation
• Centre of the Book