Corporate Social Investment: A Guide to Creating a Meaningful Legacy – Setlogane Manchidi

In Corporate Social Investment, Setlogane Manchidi delivers a powerful and practical roadmap for organizations aiming to create long-term, purpose-driven social impact. Drawing from extensive experience in the South African corporate and nonprofit landscape, Manchidi tackles the most important questions that drive effective CSI: Why are we investing? For whom? With whom? How are we doing?—and most importantly—What’s next?

This book is more than a guide—it’s a call to action for corporate leaders, CSI practitioners, and social investors who want to move beyond compliance and charity into legacy-building. Using a clear and structured approach, the author helps readers design and evaluate strategies that create measurable, sustainable impact in communities.

This used-good copy is a valuable resource for CSI managers, ESG professionals, philanthropists, nonprofit leaders, and students of social development in Africa and beyond.

What You’ll Gain:

• A framework for designing and evaluating CSI strategies

• Real-world insights into South African social development

• A shift from transactional giving to meaningful transformation

• Clarity on stakeholder alignment and accountability

• Tools to ensure your CSI efforts deliver lasting value