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 The Community Chest of the Western Cape is in need of volunteer social workers to assist us in our grant making process. I am writing to request the Western Cape Association of Social Workers in Private Practice for assistance in recruiting social workers to join our Grant Making Programme.We have a renowned due diligence and oversight process of which we are very proud, to assess the more than 500 applications for funding we receive annually, and which resulted in 429 grants to a value of R15 105 048 in 2010/2011. The grant application process stretches over a period of five months from November to end of March the following year. It consists of four internal stages and one external stage. We refer to these stages as “gates”: Gate 1: Compliance check Gate 2: Financial check Gate 3: Internal Social Worker report Gate 4: Internal financial analysis Gate 5: External Social Worker Report and the External Accounting report The responsibility of the external social worker is to comment on the following aspects of the grant application:
We would like to build up to a total of 30 social worker monitors. Currently we only have ten. This places a huge burden on the current cadre and has the potential to compromise our due diligence process. Meetings to be attended Monitors automatically become members of the Grant Management Committee, a sub-committee of the Board of the Community Chest All meetings are held in Cape Town In the months of October or November an External Social Work Monitors meeting is held to brief monitors of any developments within the application process and orientate new monitors. In the month of March we have the allocation meetings where all applications are presented before the Grant Management Committee. Attendance at this meeting is voluntary but is highly valued; it offers the social worker the opportunity input into the process in an additional way to the paper-based assessment and report. At the end of March a ratification meeting is held to which we invite all monitors. This meeting is also attended by members of the Board and Management of the Community Chest. Between the months of April and September a review session is held with the monitors to look at any trends or improvements that can be made to the following application process. We hope that your association will be able to assist us by disseminating this information. For further information please contact me per the details below. Heindrich R Zana Social Worker Department of Community Investment Community Chest of the Western Cape Tel: 021 487 1519 Fax:021 422 2254 email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Bookmark this article:          |
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