Support TAG Foundation this month by ‘donating for good’ via EasyEquities

EasyEquities is currently supporting the TAG Foundation through its Donate for Good programme, where investors are invited to donate any amount to the incumbent charity as part of their investment transaction.

TAG Foundation CEO Jonathan Gerber says the foundation is delighted to be part of the process.

“We currently support 64 children at King Edward VII School and Parktown High School for Girls,” he says. “Our target for 2024 is R6.8 million, which we aim to achieve through donations and fundraising activities.”

“We have had dozens of charities on the Donate for Good programme and have raised hundreds of thousands of rands for good causes,” says EasyEquities chief marketing officer, Carel Nolte. “This is not the first time we have supported the TAG Foundation, which does superb work in assisting both boys and girls in getting a good education at some of Johannesburg’s top schools.

“All funds raised go directly the beneficiaries, and we are confident that our involvement will raise valuable funds in the pursuit of education.”

The TAG Foundation, in turn, will be channelling the funds to the Daniel Lopes Memorial Scholarship (DLMS). 

At the end of 2018, 12-year-old Daniel Lopes died in a tragic accident. He was about to start his final year of primary school and had been accepted as a boarder at King Edward VII School (KES) in Johannesburg, where he was due to start in 2020.

After his passing, his parents, Tony and Kerry, and his brother Marco, set up the DLMS in partnership with Jonathan Gerber from the TAG Foundation.

The scholarship was started and supported by a group of very close friends from KES, where Tony attended school. They managed to get classmates from the 1991 matric year to donate funds towards the cause with the intention of creating a water polo scholarship to help financially strapped families.

The first tranche of funds went towards helping a young man complete his high school education at KES after his family fell on hard times. He is now giving back by assisting KES’s water polo coaches.

The DLMS provides funds for school fees and potentially boarding fees, or any other costs believed appropriate by the committee managing the funds. At this stage it is not a full scholarship and until sufficient funds have been raised, only partial fees can be covered.

“I would like to give some young men the opportunity to experience the brotherhood, camaraderie and pride I experienced while boarding and being educated at one Johannesburg’s finest schools,” says Tony.

“It never ceases to amaze me what incredibly generous people we have in South Africa,” says Carel. “Jonathan Gerber and the Lopes family are invaluable members of our society, deeply committed to doing something about uplifting our youth through education and securing a brighter future for scores of South Africans.”

The TAG Foundation is currently raising funds through a raffle. The winner will receive two tickets to the Springboks’ game against Ireland at Loftus on 6 July. Tickets cost R100 and are available via https://dlms.site/raffle/win/.

To make your contribution to the DLMS, simply add a small (or large) amount to your next EasyEquities transaction to Donate for Good.