Funding applications are solicited by means of a call for applications; priority, however, is given to CBOs working in poor and under-serviced regions of South Africa. The screening selection processes involve onsite pre-grant award assessments. Applicant CBOs need to be engaged in one or more of the following activities:

Prevention

• Peer-based behaviour change interventions;
• Gender interventions targeting both the girl & the boy child, gender-based violence, and men as partners;
• Culture and health interventions targeting traditional healers, traditional leaders, initiation schools, and customary gender roles.

Care and Support

• Home and community-based care interventions: e.g. HBC training, palliative care, DOTS, treatment literacy & ARV compliance education, and counselling.
• Care of orphans and vulnerable children interventions: e.g. early identification of vulnerable children and succession planning, facilitating kinship and community foster care, assistance with social grant applications, psychosocial support (bereavement counselling and play therapy) and monitoring the well-being of children.
• Poverty alleviation interventions: e.g. promoting and providing training in respect of food security, assisting families to access social grants, and income generating activities.
  CBOs entering their second or third year of support are required to submit their new work plans and budgets to the Foundation two months before the commencement of the new grant cycle.
  Funds are disbursed electronically on a monthly basis; this limits risk and enables the Foundation to withhold funds at short notice in instances where CBO partners fail to comply with their obligations.