Social Impact. Redefined.
Welcome to Vanhu Tech
Redefining What’s Possible
We’re the architects of social impact transformation, leading a paradigm shift from funding-led to impact-led solutions, creating better results and experiences for everyone involved.
Our Social Impact Ecosystem is the tool that enables the paradigm shift – a human-centred, technology-enabled system providing all the functionality to design, fund, monitor, evaluate, innovate and grow the social impact sector.
Africa is home to some of the world’s most innovative solutions to global challenges. Our Ecosystem creates a highly effective platform for Pan-African collaboration, one that is urgently needed but missing from the entire global social impact landscape.
The fundamental problem is that funding drives decisions rather than impact driving funding. When funders determine what should be funded without considering what communities need and local implementers can deliver effectively, the result is misalignment, waste, and suboptimal outcomes for everyone.
The Problem - A System Broken by Design
The current system operates on outdated assumptions. This creates systemic dysfunction and negatively affects everyone in the system.
What this results in
For Social Implementers
- Spending huge amounts of time chasing funding
- Adapting solutions to match funder priorities
- Operating in silos without collaboration opportunities
- Struggling with capacity constraints, yet limited overhead ratios
For Social Investors
- High risk and uncertainty about impact outcomes
- Excessive administrative burden and hidden costs
- Limited visibility into how funds are actually used
- Difficulty finding authentic, locally-led solutions to support
Our Solution
The paradigm shift we’re creating is simple in concept but transformative in practice. Most funders determine what should be funded and then look for implementers to execute their vision. At Vanhu Tech, we start with proven local implementers and their community-rooted solutions. We then match them with aligned social investors who share their impact goals.
We deliver this through our Social Impact Ecosystem, built on four foundational pillars.
What this results in
For Social Implementers
- Spend more time on impact, less time chasing funding
- Get matched with aligned social investors
- Access tailored capacity building resources
- Collaborate with other implementers
- Be part of a movement that’s transforming how social impact works
For Social Investors
- Find aligned, authentic, locally-led solutions
- Reduce your risk through our due diligence process
- Transparently see how your investment creates impact
- Minimize administrative burden, maximize impact
- Be part of a movement that’s transforming how social impact works
The Future We’re Creating
A social impact sector where
This is the logical outcome of putting people first, leading with impact, and using technology to empower rather than replace human connection
Join Us
We’re inviting you to be part of the solution to social impact itself, not simply to support another social impact organisation. Whether you’re a social implementer, social investor, or individual wanting to make a difference, you belong in this Ecosystem.
The paradigm shift starts here. The paradigm shift starts now. The paradigm shift starts with us.
We are in the process of building the Ecosystem. Currently, pre-registration is open to nonprofit organisations in South Africa; other African countries to follow.