Bongiwe Mlangeni's guest appearances

Bongiwe Mlangeni

Change Voices

Sisonke Msimang

Shireen Motara

Quratulain Fatima

Misan Rewane

Penelope Sanyu

Regina Honu

Ola Brown

Rita Atukwasa

Agnes Igoye

Priscilla Chomba

Nwabisa Makunga

Zoe Titus

Bertha Dlamini

Naomi Tulay-Solanke

Koketso Moeti

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In Episode 5 of Change Voices, Executive Director of the Social Justice Initiative Bongiwe Mlangeni talks to frayintermedia CEO Paula Fray about how to raise funds for social justice initiatives, and how that capital translates into real change. Bongi’s move to philanthropy comes via a long career in journalism, then communication and finally social justice fundraising.Bongiwe explains to Paula why donors are generally comfortable with funding individual welfare programmes, and why it remains so hard to convince them to fund long-term, systemic change.Fundraising often feels like it detracts from the core work of delivering services, but service delivery is obviously not possible without proper funding.But, as Paula explains, it is not that there is a lack of funds in Africa. There are around 170 000 high net worth individuals in Africa with a combined wealth of US$1,7trillion. These are the resources that social justice initiatives and other organisations need to tap into to effect change.You can find more information about the work we do and the @changevoices podcast on our website, frayintermedia.com or on our social media platforms @frayintermedia on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn, where our frayintermedia teams involved in the production of this podcast will be posting regular updates and sharing the lessons as we go along.If you have any specific women in mind that you’d like to hear from or if you want to support our endeavour, please contact Paula directly at pfray@frayintermedia.com or direct message her on social media.

In Episode 5 of Change Voices, Executive Director of the Social Justice Initiative Bongiwe Mlangeni talks to frayintermedia CEO Paula Fray about how to raise funds for social justice initiatives, and how that capital translates into real change. Bongi’s move to philanthropy comes via a long career in journalism, then communication and finally social justice fundraising. Bongiwe explains to Paula why donors are generally comfortable with funding individual welfare programmes, and why it remains so hard to convince them to fund long-term, systemic change. Fundraising often feels like it detracts from the core work of delivering services, but service delivery is obviously not possible without proper funding. But, as Paula explains, it is not that there is a lack of funds in Africa. There are around 170 000 high net worth individuals in Africa with a combined wealth of US$1,7trillion. These are the resources that social justice initiatives and other organisations need to tap into to effect change. You can find more information about the work we do and the @changevoices podcast on our website, <a href="http://frayintermedia.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">frayintermedia.com</a> or on our social media platforms @frayintermedia on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn, where our frayintermedia teams involved in the production of this podcast will be posting regular updates and sharing the lessons as we go along. If you have any specific women in mind that you’d like to hear from or if you want to support our endeavour, please contact Paula directly at pfray@frayintermedia.com or direct message her on social media.

Episode 5 - Bongiwe Mlangeni talks about fundraising for change