Corporate & strategic partnerships
Your company can do more than write a cheque.
Partner with Nono Caring Hearts Foundation to train people, equip a workshop, open market opportunities, support enterprise and build a pathway from skills to income.
The invitation
Nono Caring Hearts Foundation is looking for partners who want to build something practical with us.
How we see you
Not only donors
A company is rarely just a cheque. Most of what Nono Caring Hearts Foundation needs — markets, equipment, expertise, employment, purchasing — sits inside ordinary business capability.
Investors in opportunity
Capital that creates skills, production and income rather than one-off relief.
Employers
Placements, internships and jobs that give trained people somewhere to go.
Market partners
Off-take, distribution and shelf space for products made in training production.
Technical partners
Production know-how, quality systems, food safety, design and standards.
Equipment partners
New, refurbished or in-kind equipment for the training and production areas.
Mentors
Business and technical mentorship for trainees, graduates and the Nono Caring Hearts Foundation team.
Customers
Institutional purchasing that turns goodwill into recurring earned income.
CSR partners
A defined, reportable programme your organisation can stand behind.
Seven partnership pathways
Pick the piece you can actually deliver
Each pathway says plainly what it funds, what it does not, and where Nono Caring Hearts Foundation is not yet able to promise an outcome.
- In place today
- Designed, not yet delivered
- Goal being funded toward
- Estimate, not yet confirmed
Build
Co-fund construction of the Kirinya Skilling & Empowerment Centre.
Construction is costed from a professional bill of quantities, so a partner can fund a defined phase and receive reporting against that phase rather than against a general appeal.
Honest noteThe centre is not yet built. Any commitment funds planned construction.
Equip
Fund or donate equipment for production and training.
Equipment can be funded area by area, supplied in kind, or provided refurbished. A confirmed equipment schedule is agreed with the partner before any commitment.
Honest noteNo equipment schedule is published as a fixed cost until it is confirmed in writing.
Sponsor
Sponsor training places, or stipended apprenticeships where funding allows.
Sponsorship covers training places, materials and — where funding allows — a stipend so a woman with dependants can afford to attend.
Honest noteNono Caring Hearts Foundation cannot currently provide stipends to every trainee. Support can help expand the number of trainees who can participate in paid practical production.
Employ
Offer placements, internships or employment opportunities to suitable graduates.
We can introduce graduates whose skills match your requirements, share what they trained in and what they produced, and support the transition into a workplace.
Honest noteWe do not promise placement outcomes, and we do not guarantee that any graduate will be hired. Selection remains entirely yours.
Buy
Become an institutional buyer of Nono Caring Hearts Foundation products.
Schools, hotels, hospitals, offices and retailers can buy soap, bakery, dairy and tailored goods produced in training. Purchasing is the most durable support there is — it funds the work every month.
Honest noteVolumes and supply terms are confirmed in writing before any commitment is made.
Mentor
Provide technical or business mentorship.
Practical mentorship — production quality, costing, packaging, bookkeeping, customer handling — for trainees, graduate enterprises and the Nono Caring Hearts Foundation team.
Honest noteMentorship is arranged around trainee schedules and safeguarding requirements.
Connect
Provide market access, professional networks, technical expertise or strategic introductions.
Introductions to buyers, funders, regulators, trainers and technical specialists often move the work faster than money does.
Honest noteWe will tell you plainly where an introduction is useful and where it is not.
What a partnership can look like
Practical, defined, reportable
Real partnerships tend to be specific. These are the shapes that work best for us and for the people we train.
Adopt a cohort
Support a full group of trainees through a training cycle — recruitment, materials, training and practical production.
Costed per partner
Equip a workshop
Fund the equipment for one training and production area, from the confirmed equipment schedule.
Costed per partner
Support a trainer
Cover the cost of a skilled trainer so more people can be trained properly rather than quickly.
Costed per partner
Sponsor live production training
Fund raw materials and packaging so trainees learn by producing goods that can actually be sold.
Costed per partner
Buy Nono Caring Hearts Foundation products
Place a recurring institutional order and turn your procurement budget into training income.
Costed per partner
Support start-up kits
Fund the basic tools and stock a graduate needs to begin earning after training.
Costed per partner
Support the centre
Co-fund a defined phase of the Kirinya centre against the bill of quantities.
Costed per partner
No monetary values are attached to these examples on this site. Costs are prepared per partner from the BOQ, the equipment schedule and the training budget, and confirmed in writing.
Corporate downloadable
Nono Caring Hearts Foundation Corporate Partnership Brief
A short brief covering the model, the seven partnership pathways, what a partnership can look like and what we can report. Prepared for circulation inside your organisation.
Branded partnership proposals for individual companies are prepared on request, using this brief, the project bill of quantities and the training budget.
What we can report to you
Reporting we can stand behind
Depending on the partnership, reporting can eventually include the items below. What we agree with you depends on what we can genuinely measure at the time.
| Reporting item | Status | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| People trained | Recorded now | Enrolment and attendance registers. |
| Training completion | Recorded now | Completion against the training cycle. |
| Equipment delivered | Recorded now | Delivery records, photographs and location of installation. |
| Products produced | Recorded now | Production volumes from training production. |
| Graduates supported | Recorded now | Who received start-up support and what form it took. |
| Enterprise outcomes | Baseline being established | Income and enterprise survival need follow-up systems we are still building. |
| Stories | With consent | First-person accounts, shared only where the person has agreed. |
| Financial reporting | Per agreement | Expenditure against the agreed budget. No audited accounts are published yet. |
| Photographic documentation | With consent | Progress and activity photographs, within safeguarding limits. |
We will not promise metrics we cannot yet measure. Where a system does not exist, we say “baseline being established” and we agree with you what will realistically be reported and when.
Request partnership discussion
Start a conversation
Tell us what your organisation can realistically do and we will come back with a specific, costed proposal — not a generic appeal.
- We will tell you what is already running and what is still planned.
- We will not promise outcomes we cannot evidence.
- Reporting expectations are agreed before any commitment.
- Your organisation is never named publicly without written agreement.
Corporate partnerships
Let's find the piece of the work that makes sense for your organisation.