Programmes
What We Do: Our Key Programmes
At Thintane Foundation, we implement high-impact, community-rooted programmes designed to drive social, economic, and environmental transformation. Our approach is holistic, responsive, and scalable
integrating service delivery with capacity-building, systems strengthening, and innovation.
We serve as both an implementing agent and ecosystem enabler, delivering programmes that unlock opportunity, build resilience, and position communities as the architects of their own development. Our core programme pillars include:
1.Technical Support & Capacity Building for Civil Society
We strengthen grassroots organisations, NPOs, and community structures through mentorship, training, compliance support, governance development, and organisational diagnostics. We help turn community passion into structured, fundable, and impactful institutions.
2.Enterprise Development & Incubation
We equip aspiring entrepreneurs especially youth and women with tools to launch and grow sustainable businesses. From ideation to formal registration, access to markets, and micro-grants we provide the full
entrepreneurial pipeline support.
3.Rural Economic Empowerment & Agro-Ecology
We work in rural communities to develop inclusive agricultural value chains, establish co-ops, and promote food sovereignty. Our agship projects integrate agro-ecological methods, indigenous knowledge, and
water-smart practices to ensure climate resilience and economic growth.
4.Early Childhood Development (ECD)
We provide training, infrastructure support, and learning resources to ECD centres, while advocating for the integration of nutrition, safety, and psychosocial services into early learning environments. turn community passion into structured, fundable, and impactful institutions.
5.Youth Development & Volunteerism
We empower young people through leadership development, skills training, and community service. Our youth programmes foster agency, civic responsibility, and pathways into employment or enterprise.
6.Social Cohesion, Inclusion & Dialogue
We create safe spaces for community conversations, intergenerational healing, and reconciliation. Our work tackles issues like GBVF, fatherlessness, substance abuse, and inequality building stronger, more connected societies.
7.Digitalisation & ICT Integration
We equip communities with access to digital tools and e-learning platforms, oer basic-to-intermediate digital literacy training, and support NPOs in going digital for efficiency and growth.
8.Social Protection & Poverty Alleviation
Through direct service and policy engagement, we support vulnerable groups with food relief, access to documentation, referrals to social services, and linkage to income-generating opportunities.
9.Research, Advocacy & Mainstreaming
We generate evidence to inuence policy, design community-led
development models, and ensure that vulnerable voices are at the
centre of decision-making processes.
10.Strategic Partnerships & Stakeholder Relations
We facilitate collaboration between government, private sector, funders, and grassroots stakeholders mobilising resources, fostering accountability, and scaling collective impact.
Impact & Track Record
• Reached over 25,000 beneciaries across ve provinces since 2019
• Supported 1,200 microenterprises to achieve sustainable revenue growth
• Achieved 85% participant satisfaction in youth and women’s skills programs
• Demonstrated reduction in harmful alcohol use through community awareness campaigns
• Successfully installed a borehole at the Maseke Administration Hall in
Ba-Phalaborwa, in support of access to cleanandsafewater.