About Alumni Impact

Institutional memory transformed into sustainable community capital.

Our mission is to build a completely self-funded, community-owned pipeline of Black STEM professionals.

The mission

Stop waiting for outside rescue. Organise the people already connected to the school.

Alumni Impact is designed around a simple belief: schools already have a distributed network of professionals, entrepreneurs and community leaders whose collective monthly support can create reliable access to advanced STEM teaching.

Instead of treating alumni engagement as occasional fundraising, the programme builds a permanent operating network with transparent data, ring-fenced school chapters and measurable academic outcomes.

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Self-funded

Recurring alumni contributions reduce reliance on volatile grant cycles.

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Community-owned

Each school chapter operates as an autonomous financial cell with local accountability.

03

Outcome-led

Attendance, infrastructure uptime, curriculum coverage and academic progress are tracked.

Young Black entrepreneurs working together
Pilot footprint

1,000 learners across key Gauteng township clusters.

The January 2027 pilot supports Grades 10, 11 and 12 through host centres and feeder schools in three initial clusters.

Soweto ClusterHost centres and feeder schools
Tembisa ClusterHost centres and feeder schools
Alexandra ClusterHost centres and feeder schools
Trust, compliance and safety

Credibility must be designed into the system.

NPO and PBO structure

Formal registration and tax-exempt status with relevant South African authorities.

Quarterly audits

Independent financial audits made visible to active donors through the portal.

Child protection

Facilitators, operators and transport partners vetted against the NRSO.

POPIA data security

Learner academic data and donor profiles handled under strict privacy controls.