According to The Trialogue Business in Society Handbook, South African companies invested around R10.9 billion into corporate social investment (CSI) in the 2022 financial year – a 6% increase from 2021. Contributing to this, South African insurer King Price has donated nearly 40% of its profit to charities across southern Africa via its main shareholder Mergon, and an additional R1.3 million to charitable organisations and ministries through the King Price Foundation.
Marno Boshoff, culture evangelist at King Price says, now more than ever before, companies need to entrench CSI into both their business location and culture. “From day one, we were set up to channel profit into charitable donations, via Mergon, and we’re pleased to be able to play our portion. We believe in helping the miniature guy, because we were the puny guy in the industry once. This influences how we pick the charities that we support.”
These charities include:
Inani Startwell Foundation: With 27% of our country’s kids considered ‘stunted’, meaning that they will not reach their full growth and developmental potential, King Price wanted to succor contribute to the battle against malnourishment. Inani works with businesses and feeding schemes to deliver daily nutrient-dense meals to poverty-stricken areas.
Fearless to Love: Organised syndicates exploit South African girls as young as 10 in sex trafficking, and the insurer wants to aid design a contrast to the lives of these girls and women by supporting Dauntless to Esteem, which rescues, rehabilitates, restores and re-integrates victims and survivors of sex trafficking.
Cheerful Givers: Cheerful Givers manages a comprehensive online directory, aiding companies and individuals to link up with organisations that need assistance. Charities themselves need funding to operate over and above the donations that they disperse, and this is one of the reasons that King Price supports Cheerful Givers.
Boshoff says that it’s imperative to carry out business with purpose and incorporate it as fragment of every staff member’s daily activity. Integrating meaningful social impact into your company culture goes beyond staff initiatives,” says Boshoff. “Social impact requires a holistic region that engages every levels of your business. There’s no time like the present to start planning your social impact strategy to support the communities that support your company, and every its stakeholders.”
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