The Ellen Forbes Foundation experience provides simply a means to extending yourself to the community you serve, however diverse your offering. Whether in the food and beverage, media, clothing and textiles, health and welfare, government or related sectors; we all co-exist in mutually beneficial relationships, ultimately to ensure the eradication of poverty to the benefit of the economy. Our commitment to empowering our target market as they move up the hierarchy of needs gives back to South Africa a confident and self sufficient nation with increased spending power, beneficial to our donors. Our values of openness, transparency and accountability allows for our donors to share in our successes as we move closer to reaching our ideals

About Us

A synergy of industry experts committed to a common vision and mission.

Vision statement

To be a model NPO others benchmark against by following ideal processes and procedures, rendering our services with inspirational and transparent approaches to form unified and empowered communities.

Mission statement

Satisfying the physiological, safety and security, social, ego and self actualisation needs of the aged, unemployed and low income citizens of South Africa in a complete solution to individual empowerment.

The Ellen Forbes Foundation exists primarily to enable the realisation of the following needs to the community it serves:

• Physiological - food and clothing provision

• Safety and Security needs

• Social Needs - love, acceptance and the formation of social circles

• Ego needs - self respect, self esteem, self confidence and developing talents

• Self actualisation needs - the uninhibited expression of true self and developing talents

The organisation's ancillary objectives extend to working in collaboration with other organisations that deal mainly with the realisation of the above mentioned needs as social initiatives.

Our beneficiaries range from the unemployed and aged to single and low income families.

The Ellen Forbes Foundation

Founder: Heidi Forbes

Cell: +27 74 928 6270

Fax: 086 5777 765

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Board meetings held 1 saturday per month at:

Ernest Ullmann Park Recreation Centre

Entrance at: Minto Road, Morningside Manor and Alma Road, Wendywood - Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa