Community & Individual Development Association
Nonprofit Organization Management - Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
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Community & Individual Development Association Details
As the pioneers of the 'Free Tertiary Education' movement in South Africa, over the last 12 years, Community and Individual Development Association (founded in 1979) and its subsidiary organizations have helped to create five free access institutions of higher learning and have educated 5,500 unemployed youth out of poverty, 90% of whom are employed in long term jobs, earning over $32 million together in annual salaries. Over the next 40 years they will earn over $1 billion - money that is going back into the hands of historically disadvantaged families. The organization has a proven track-record of bridging unemployed youth into entrepreneurship, long-term jobs, and into the economy.The organization is in the process of scaling up a new initiative, the Maharishi Institute, from 500 students to 1,500 within the next two years and is piloting the use of Impact Sourcing (through social enterprise Invincible Outsourcing and Impact Sourcing Academy) combined with university education as an innovative poverty alleviation strategy and is a recent recipient of a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. The Community and Individual Development Association has worked directly with over 50,000 South Africans, and provided one-week training courses to over 600,000 South Africans.Supporters of the work include: Sir Richard Branson, The Dalai Lama, Educating Africa Foundation, Chuma Foundation, Oppenheimer Family, Kellogg Foundation, Skoll Foundation amongst others.
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