Working Associates
Our primary strategic partner is the School of Public Management and Planning, University of Stellenbosch.
We work with the following in our local context:
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Lynedoch Development Company
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Lynedoch Early Learning Centre
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Lynedoch Primary School
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Meerlust WIne Farm
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Sustainability Institute's Land Reform Project and Organic Farm
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Stellenbosch Savings and Credit Cooperative
Technology partners
Specialized Solar Systems (SSS)
Our wider working relationships are:
- Cape Town Partnership
- City of Cape Town
- Development Bank of Southern Africa
- Dharamitra, India
- Lomold (Pty) Ltd
- Community Organisations Resource Centre, Cape Town, and various of their international partners in Shackdwellers International
- Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (National Government)
- Isandla Institute
- Makeka Design Laboratory
- Stellenbosch Municipality
- Warwick Institute of Governance and Public Management, University of Warwick, UK
- Western Cape Provincial Government
- National Department of Human Settlements
Past and Present funders:
- BATSA (current)
- Caltex South Africa
- CORDAID (current)
- DANIDA
- Ford Foundation
- International Finance Corporation
- Investec (current)
- Lexi Cinema, London
- Meerlust Wine Farm
- Mott Foundation (current)
- Spier Wine Estate (current)
- Swiss South Africa Cooperation Initiative
- United Nations Development Programme
- USAID
- Woolworths
Fundraising philosophy
Funds will only be accepted from funders who respect the total autonomy of the Sustainability Institute and, therefore, its right to decide without interference or fear of pressure on the content of all teaching programmes, research methods and conclusions, public writing and socio-political alliances. The Sustainability Institute believes in the importance of mixing foreign and local donations, and also on the need to generate fees and to operate facilities that generate surpluses for cross-subsididing loss-leaders.