We don’t want to count activity.
We want to understand change.
Our approach to impact looks beyond what we deliver to understand what changes for the people and communities we work alongside.
The activity is not the outcome.
A workshop delivered, a learner attending or an event completed tells us something happened. It does not yet tell us what changed.
We want to understand whether participation creates knowledge, confidence, capability, access and ultimately stronger pathways into opportunity.
A commitment to institutional accountability
From access to opportunity.
Access
Can people reach and participate in the opportunity?
Engagement
Are participants meaningfully involved?
Capability
What knowledge, skills, confidence or awareness changed?
Pathway
What new possibility, connection or next step became available?
Outcome
What changed over time?
This framework ensures that our maturity around data and evidence grows alongside the work itself. We are building the evidence base for a long-term institutional identity.
Different work requires different evidence.
Participation
Who had access and who participated?
Experience
How did participants experience the intervention?
Knowledge
What was learned or better understood?
Capability
What practical skill or confidence developed?
Connection
What relationships, exposure or opportunities were created?
Progression
What happened next?
Measurement is appropriate to each intervention. We do not present all metrics as though the Foundation already collects them across every programme.
Every pathway has a different destination.
Education & Skills
Potential Outcomes
• Increased knowledge
• Practical capability
• Confidence
• Exposure
• Continued learning
Digital Inclusion
Potential Outcomes
• Digital confidence
• Practical technology skills
• Access to digital learning
• Greater awareness of technology pathways
Youth Development & Wellbeing
Potential Outcomes
• Increased awareness
• Stronger self-understanding
• Improved knowledge of available support
• Confidence to seek help or make informed choices
Employment & Opportunity
Potential Outcomes
• Workplace exposure
• Mentorship
• Career awareness
• Access to opportunity
• Progression towards employment or entrepreneurship
Community
Potential Outcomes
• Participation
• Collaboration
• Stronger institutional relationships
• Locally relevant initiatives
We use the language of potential outcomes where evidence has not yet been collected.
We do not imply these outcomes have already been achieved at scale; we are building the pathways to reach them.
What happened. What changed. What we learned.
Impact stories coming as programmes progress.
As our work matures, we will populate this space with detailed case studies that follow our evidence framework.
A factual account of what happened is valuable even before impact evidence exists. These stories reflect real Foundation activity across our communities.
- • School programmes
- • Digital-skills workshops
- • Community activations
- • Youth conversations
- • Know Who You Are activities
Know Who You Are is bigger than race-day attendance.
We intend to measure more complex initiatives beyond simple participation numbers. This framework will allow us to eventually consider the full weight of the experience.
Explore Know Who You AreReach
Who participated and engaged?
Engagement
How did people participate across the programme?
Awareness
What conversations or understanding changed?
Experience
What did participants take from the initiative?
Connection
What new relationships and pathways were created?
Continuation
What happens after the event?
Collect what matters.
Protect what people share.
We intend to use data responsibly to learn what works, improve our programmes, and communicate transparently with partners.
• Respecting privacy and dignity
• Appropriate consent
• Responsible handling of information
“Data should serve people, not reduce them to numbers.”
Local pathways. Global priorities.
The SDGs provide a useful framework for understanding where Foundation programmes contribute to broader development priorities. We differentiate between SDG alignment and measured outcomes.
Partnership deserves evidence.
Organisations that invest funding, expertise, technology, time or opportunity should be able to understand what their contribution enabled and what we learned together.
Objective
What were we trying to change?
Activity
What did we do together?
Evidence
What did we observe or measure?
Learning
What did we learn?
Next Action
What should happen next?
Credibility is built through transparency.
Registered NPO
334-038-NPO
PBO Approved
Public Benefit Organisation
Governance
Responsible and accountable approach
Institutional Collaboration
University of Limpopo
We’re building the evidence alongside the work.
As our programmes grow, this space will report verified participation, outcomes and learning. This dashboard is a structural placeholder for future longitudinal data.
Learners reached
Pending
Programme participants
Pending
Digital engagements
Pending
Schools & institutions
Pending
Pathways created
Pending
Not everything that counts is a number.
But everything we claim should have evidence behind it.
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Partner with us to build, measure and learn from interventions designed to create practical opportunity.