Tag Archives: Community Action Network

TAKE ACTION: Have your say on your municipality’s budget

CAN empowers South Africans to challenge unfair rate hikes and influence local spending, holding municipalities [...]

CAN campaign urges citizens to take control of their municipal property valuations

Credit: OUTA  The Community Action Network (CAN), an initiative of OUTA, has launched a project [...]

Take Action: Why we have the Promotion of Access to Information Act

Access to information is crucial for upholding constitutional values such as transparency, openness, participation, and [...]

Municipal Law: 10 laws that are important to municipalities

All law effects local government but there are some pieces of legislation that make specific [...]

Activate: Getting people involved

Why Pursue Community Activation? Community activation offers significant benefits to organizations or projects by: Sustaining [...]

Revenue: Why monthly membership models work

Associations that develop member strategies early on and encourage their members to make monthly contributions, [...]

The Basics: What are founding documents?

All successful non-profit associations have one thing in common – they are guided by a [...]

The Basics: The chair, secretary, treasurer explained

The general rule is that committee members should meet monthly, while general meetings that are [...]

The Basics: How to become a Public Benefit Organisation

Being registered as a Public Benefit Organisation, or PBO, is an excellent method to not [...]

Take Action – My bill is wrong. Now what?

If it has not happened to you, it has certainly happened to someone in your [...]