2026 Edition
Institutional Profile
A formal introduction to the EF Legacy of Purpose Foundation for partners, funders, government departments, corporate social investment teams and institutional reviewers.
2026 Edition
Institutional Business and Sustainability Plan 2026–2029
EF Legacy of Purpose Foundation — how purpose, service and sustainability work together.
Overview
About this document
An institutional plan setting out the Foundation's operating position, service portfolio, delivery network, income architecture, governance and three-year priorities.
Business and Sustainability Plan
2026 Edition · A4 PDF · v1.0
Last updated 5 August 2026
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Section 1
Executive summary
The EF Legacy of Purpose Foundation is an operational, human-centred institution combining practical community service, mental-health and psychosocial pathways, education, humanitarian support, employment creation, skills development, public-space improvement and responsible programme implementation.
Its present institutional capacity draws on founder-led, leadership-led and partner-supported experience accumulated before and after formal registration.
The registered Foundation now consolidates that experience within stronger governance, contracting, safeguarding, occupational health and safety, documentation, monitoring and reporting systems.
The service came first. The institution was built to protect it, govern it and scale it.
This plan describes how the Foundation intends to sustain and expand that work between 2026 and 2029 without compromising dignity, safeguarding or accountability.
Section 2
Institutional identity
The EF Legacy of Purpose Foundation is a South African non-profit institution led by its Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director, Nokulunga Sweetness Shabalala, supported by an executive leadership team and a professional implementation network.
- Nokulunga Sweetness Shabalala
- Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director
- EF Legacy of Purpose Foundation
- Email: info@eflegacy.org
- Website: eflegacy.org
Section 3
Legacy and origin
The Foundation carries the name and working ethic of Sr. Elizabeth Funie Shabalala, a nurse whose life was spent restoring dignity to people at their most vulnerable.
Her life became the Foundation's purpose. Her legacy became its mission.
Section 4
Current operating position
Operational work. Strengthened systems. Expanding reach.
Before the Foundation’s present legal and governance structure was established, its founder, present leadership network, professionals and implementation partners were already responding to community needs.
That work included practical relief, education support, employment connections, skills access, professional referrals, emotional support, community engagement, service delivery and partner-supported implementation.
The experience did not disappear when the institution was formalised.
It became the foundation upon which stronger governance, responsible contracting, safeguarding, documentation and accountable growth are now being built.
Historical experience is attributed accurately to the founder, current leadership, participating professionals or implementation network according to the role through which the work was delivered.
Section 5
Community and market need
South African communities face simultaneous pressure from unemployment, hunger, deteriorating public spaces, limited mental-health access and interrupted schooling.
These pressures are connected. A cleaning contract that employs local people, a food parcel that reaches a household and a referral to a psychologist are not separate interventions; they are stages of the same recovery.
Section 6
Stakeholder groups
- Community members, participants and beneficiaries
- Government departments, municipalities and public entities
- Private companies, property owners and institutions
- Schools, clinics and community organisations
- Qualified professionals and technical providers
- Donors, sponsors, patrons and grant-makers
- Volunteers, ambassadors and Team I AM members
Section 7
Service portfolio
- Humanitarian relief and food security
- Education and children's support
- Girls' dignity
- Mental health and psychosocial pathways
- Purpose, leadership and economic participation
- Creative healing
- Family, community and human development
- Community and Public Services
Section 8
Community and Public Services
Community development requires more than temporary relief.
It requires work, functioning public spaces, practical skills, responsible services, safety, human support and opportunities through which people can rebuild.
The EF Legacy of Purpose Foundation delivers Community and Public Services through trained teams, qualified professionals, experienced implementation partners and responsible programme management.
The programme combines service delivery with employment creation, local participation, practical learning and measurable community value.
- A. Cleaning, hygiene and environmental maintenance
- B. Facilities, property and building maintenance
- C. Road, stormwater and public-infrastructure support
- D. Waste, recycling and environmental restoration
- E. Food security, agriculture and gardening
- F. Water, hygiene and essential supplies
- G. Security, safeguarding and community safety
- H. Mental health and psychosocial support
- I. Rehabilitation, recovery and reintegration
- J. Skills, employment and economic participation
- K. Occupational health and safety
- L. Project and contract management
We do not separate the work from the people. Where suitable, each project is structured to leave behind cleaner spaces, safer environments, practical experience, stronger workers and pathways towards greater independence.
Section 9
Humanitarian programmes
- Feed a Family — food parcels and nutrition support
- Give a Girl Dignity — menstrual health and dignity packs
- School Journey — uniforms, shoes, stationery and school-related relief
- Emergency and disaster-response support
- Household essentials and hygiene support
Section 10
Mental-health services and referrals
The Foundation provides mental-health education, facilitated support and referral pathways, and works with qualified psychologists, psychiatrists, counsellors and other appropriate professionals so that people requiring specialised care can be directed towards responsible support.
Non-clinical facilitators are never presented as clinical practitioners.
Section 11
Education and youth
Education support removes the practical barriers that keep children out of classrooms, and youth mentorship builds the confidence and habits that keep them there.
Section 12
Skills and employment
- Work-readiness preparation and project induction
- Practical on-project training and supervision
- Work placement and employment facilitation
- Entrepreneurship, financial literacy and digital skills
- Supervisor and leadership development
Section 13
Delivery network
The Foundation's operating model is deliberately networked. It coordinates rather than duplicates capacity, drawing qualified professionals and providers into each assignment.
Section 14
Operating model
- Assess the need and confirm the scope with the client or community
- Plan the assignment, workforce, safety and reporting requirements
- Recruit and induct community workers where the assignment allows
- Deliver with qualified supervision and technical support
- Report on both service output and human outcome
- Close out, capture evidence and follow up where appropriate
Section 15
Government-sector strategy
The Foundation positions itself as an implementation partner for labour-intensive public works, cleaning, environmental maintenance, facilities support and community programmes, accompanied by an institutional proposal and the prescribed bid documentation.
Section 16
Private-sector strategy
Private companies engage the Foundation either as a service provider or as a social-impact partner funding employment, training, equipment or programme delivery.
Section 17
Sponsorship and donor strategy
- Programme sponsorship with defined designations
- Patron and major-giving relationships
- Corporate social investment and ESG-aligned partnerships
- In-kind support: equipment, materials, PPE, transport
Section 18
Contracted-service strategy
Contracted community services provide the Foundation with income that is earned through delivery, reducing dependence on donations while directly creating community employment.
Section 19
Partnerships
- Technical and maintenance providers
- Registered security providers
- Clinics, psychologists, counsellors and psychiatrists
- Training providers and skills-development centres
- Suppliers and equipment partners
- Community organisations and faith networks
Section 20
Income and sustainability model
The Foundation does not publish projected revenue figures that have not been prepared and verified. The revenue architecture is described instead.
- Donations
- Sponsorships
- Grants
- Contracted community services
- Implementation fees
- Programme-management fees
- Training
- Digital products
- Funeora commercial income under separate ownership and operations
- Approved fundraising
- In-kind support
Detailed budgets and project pricing are prepared according to each programme or contract.
Section 21
Governance
Decision-making, delegation and authorisation are documented. Conflicts of interest are declared and managed. Policies are published in the Foundation's Trust Centre.
Section 22
Financial control
- Budget approval and authorisation limits
- Procurement and quotation requirements
- Restricted-fund tracking by designation
- Records retention and reconciliation
- Fraud-prevention and reporting controls
Section 23
Data protection
The Foundation collects information for defined operational, safeguarding, contractual and reporting purposes.
Access is limited according to role and responsibility.
Mental-health referrals, support requests, employment information, tender documents, donor information and general website enquiries are not combined into one unrestricted dataset.
Public and sponsor reporting uses aggregated or appropriately redacted information.
Identifiable beneficiary and health information is not included in a public dashboard.
- Row-level security is maintained on every table holding personal or operational information.
- Least-privilege access is applied according to administrative role.
- Document uploads are stored privately; tender files are never placed in public storage.
- Health and safeguarding records are never placed in public storage.
- No Foundation dataset is made available to artificial-intelligence services by default.
- Mental-health and general administration permissions are kept separate.
- Access and administrative actions are logged securely.
- Retention rules, deletion and correction workflows and an incident-reporting pathway are maintained.
Section 24
Occupational health and safety
Occupational health and safety is planned into every assignment through trained personnel, induction, risk assessment, protective equipment and incident reporting.
Section 25
Human resources
- Community-worker recruitment with local participation
- Induction, supervision and conduct standards
- Safeguarding screening for roles working with children or vulnerable people
- Participant records kept confidentially
Section 26
Risk management
- Funding concentration and cash-flow risk
- Delivery, quality and safety risk on site
- Safeguarding and reputational risk
- Data-protection and confidentiality risk
- Partner performance and compliance risk
Section 27
Monitoring and evaluation
The Foundation measures two connected outcomes: the practical service completed, and the human capacity strengthened through the work.
Section 28
Three-year institutional priorities
- Consolidate historical experience into a verified evidence register
- Grow contracted community services and the employment they create
- Expand the qualified professional network for mental-health access
- Advance the EF Legacy Village through phased development
- Strengthen documentation, monitoring and donor reporting
- Enable secure payment and receipting infrastructure
Section 29
Growth stages
- Stage one — consolidate governance, evidence and reporting systems
- Stage two — scale contracted services and community employment
- Stage three — establish permanent programme infrastructure and the Legacy Village
Section 30
Call to partnership
Do not merely fund a moment. Help us build what comes next.
Contact and next steps
Enquiries, service requests, partnership proposals and due-diligence requests may be directed to the Foundation using the details below.
- Nokulunga Sweetness Shabalala
- Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director
- EF Legacy of Purpose Foundation
- Email: info@eflegacy.org
- Website: eflegacy.org
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Project and Impact Portfolio
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Partnership and Funding Prospectus
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Community and Public Services Capability Statement
A capability statement for government departments, municipalities, institutions, property owners and private companies assessing the Foundation as a community and public services implementation partner.
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Government and Public-Sector Programme Implementation Proposal
An institutional proposal for departments, municipalities and public entities assessing the Foundation as an implementation partner for community services, labour-intensive public works and social programmes.
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Private-Sector Partnership and Social-Impact Proposal
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