Vision Statement

The Community Chest’s vision of a country where all individuals and families reach their human potential, is based on the fundamentality of access to Health, Education, Income-Generation and Community Development.

Mission Statement

Our mission is to address poverty and facilitate social change to inspire citizenship that is active, engaged and impactful.

Community Chest started in 1928 as a collective response to the needs of citizens who suffered under the heavy weight of the many challenges brought about by poverty and economic injustice experienced by the majority of South Africans.
Statistic: [Poverty in South Africa]

Many factors contribute to the success of the Community Chest Western Cape, and our stature as a leading grant-making organization over the last nine decades, supported by our reputation as Thought Leaders on social development. Along with these attributes, our responses to humanitarian crises issues and solutions, and our capability and experience in Compliance and Due Diligence continues to entrench our position as a leading organisation in the non-profit sector.

• A focus on strategic Initiatives in order to shift from a culture of poverty to a culture of prosperity
• A clear Intention focused on our strategy and areas of engagement
• Drive a focused strategy for our Intervention
• Purposefully design strategies to address the Power vs. Influence challenge that often strangles development
• Employ new Intelligence to address the issues we want to solve or shift
• Be Innovative in our approach and not merely repeat what others are doing
• Measure the Impact of our interventions
• Speak with Integrity to the donors and the community about what we are doing