Key areas:
Corporates focusing on social justice interventions with specific focus on
o Community development through sustainable projects for growth and self
o Support for learners through financial & personal development
o Learnership & graduate programmes for specific target audience and assistance for the Employee Active Population as prescribed by the DOL
• Small & Medium Enterprises
o Bus
iness strategy in line with changing societal demands (Take the risk)
o Change agents in the community (from social justice to social entrepreneurship)
• Global reach
o How my story of resilience through poverty and politics has shaped my life?
• Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment Compliance for corporates at all levels
o To ensure a decent BEE score for enhanced business opportunities
o access to state funding & public tenders
o empowering the South African market to alleviate poverty and participate effectively in the process of transformation
BACKGROUND
Gerri Engelman & Associates (Pty) Ltd was established in 2004.
Geraldine Engelman has worked for over 25 years in community and organizational development with specific focus on learning, youth, health, education, and the arts.
Founder member, Director & Project Manager of various non-governmental educational, bursary and health organisations as listed below:
• Small Beginnings Early Childhood Development Trust
• Student Sponsorship Bursary Programme
• Bidvest Dinatla Trust Bursary Programme Primedia Higher Education Bursary Programme
• For Coloured Girls Bursary Programme
Skilled in Transformation
• B-BBEE Champion
• Member of BEESA network
• Accolades in getting corporates from a Level 4 to Level 1 and maintaining it for 3 to 5 years.
Corporate Social Responsibility Awards
• Mail & Guardian (Runner Up & Winner consecutive years)
• Loerie & Grand Pix awards (2015 to 2018)
• Apex Awards
KEY OBJECTIVES
Ensure that corporates build capacities by providing skills for graduates, learners, staff, bursars, unemployed young people, and executives through the following mechanisms:
❑ Company Skills assessment
❑ A well-researched training approach without limitations
❑ Partnering with professional accredited organisations and individuals
❑ Participants will receive a professional but fun learning experience
❑ Develop programmes to suit the environment, industry, level of education and sector to ensure building critical competencies that are vitally important to the participants
Assisting with the development of policy and implementation of corporate projects
Offering an administrative function where there is no in-house capacity
Customize rollout needs including processes, reporting, people and systems.
Conducting needs analysis to identify specific areas where and how capacity-building requirements can be effectively responded to.
Guiding and consulting on areas related to BBBEE with specific focus on Management & Control, Procurement, Skills Development and Socio Economic Development.
Ensure that corporates build capacities by providing skills for graduates, learners, staff, bursars, unemployed young people and executives
Assisting with the development of policy and implementation of corporate projects
Offering an administrative function where there is no in-house capacity
Customize rollout needs including processes, reporting, people and systems.
Conducting needs analysis to identify specific areas where and how capacity-building requirements can be effectively responded to.
Guiding and consulting on areas related to BBBEE with specific focus on Management & Control, Procurement, Skills Development and Socio-Economic Development. PRINCIPLES
We do the right thing
Integrity
Trust
Accountability
Professionalism
Humility
Inclusivity & collaborative
Continuous learning
Simplicity
Fun
