Want to know how you can help? "We rise by lifting others up"
- Robert Ingersol
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ABOUT PURPLEGROWTH FOUNDATION

We focus on supporting business owners (Youth, Women and People Living with Disability) in townships and in rural areas, with the provision of small business development skills as well as work-readiness support for unemployed graduates.

We are looking for corporate sponsors and strategic partners to drive these initiatives as we have limited financial resources.

SOME OF THE WAYS WE HAVE HELPED

Eastern Cape Disability Economic Empowerment Trust

2018

We partnered with the Eastern Cape Disability Economic Empowerment Trust (ECDEET) to train 30 entrepreneurs (People Living with Disability) on how to grow and sustain their small businesses

Information
Seminars

2019 - 2020

We ran a number of information seminars for the benefit of entrepreneurs in Johannesburg and surrounding townships

Job shadowing and
employment readiness

2020

We have provided job shadowing and employment readiness training with unemployed youths

Youth
Entrepreneurs

2020 - 2021

We are in the process of training 105 youth entrepreneurs from all provinces in SA on how to grow and sustain their businesses

HOW YOU CAN HELP

MENTOR

Volunteer to be a mentor and coach to a small scale entrepreneur or young professional

SHADOW

Host an unemployed graduate (job shadowing) for a few days

SPONSOR

Sponsor the youth entrepreneurship training programme