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
The proportions vary from year to year.
This website starts at this level of self-support and then goes deeper and deeper into C4L's layers of resourcing.
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Publications List
Order eBook or paperback format from https://mbokodopublishers.eshop.co.za
Books in print
- Opa Waxes Prophetic (iconoclasts who became icons)
- Orania and Azania (about race relations in SA)
- Rich Man, Poor Woman, Bogyman, Thief (about inter-racial marriage)
- Umlababa Wetidsanzani
Contact C4L to order the following items:
Training manuals
- Leading Groups in Civil Society
- Managing People and Resources
- Managing Work
Training videos
- Lessons for Leaders
- Meditations for Managers
- Victory with Volunteers
Readers about orphans and vulnerable children
- Teacher Counseling for OVC
- Guard our Children, Guide our Leaders (research on the history of orphans)
The Weighbridge (C4L's youth magazine)
- Issue #1 Election Fever
- Issue #2 Tweaking Democracy
- Issue #3 Banana Republics
- Issue #4 Kingdonomics
Still in the Pipeline...
In various stages of production or review by publishers:
Books
- Opa Waxes Lyrical (being published by Centre of the Book in Capetown)
- Let Justice Roll On Like a River (already available in eBook; paperback on its way)
- A Blast from the Past
- Bones of Contention
- Management Matters
Podcasts
- Project Cycle Management
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