Public Price Foundation
A public-benefit foundation advancing fair pricing, social development, economic justice, community empowerment, public advocacy, and inclusive opportunity across South Africa and Africa.
Choose How to Support the Foundation
The Foundation is the public-benefit structure behind social development work, fair-pricing advocacy, volunteer mobilisation, public campaigns, and supported development initiatives.
Donate or Fund
Support community programs, fair-price advocacy, youth and senior income projects, bursaries, and public-benefit development work.
Volunteer
Join as a changemaker, community organiser, researcher, communicator, mentor, digital volunteer, or public advocacy supporter.
Public Programs
Explore foundation-led programs around fair pricing, social redress, community empowerment, economic justice, and development initiatives.
Public Price Institute
The Institute is a distinct enterprise-education and market-access centre operated through the Foundation’s development structure.
Foundation Mandate
Public Price Foundation exists to mobilise public benefit, advocacy, social investment, community support, and development partnerships. Its role is wider than business education: it works for social redress, affordability, inclusion, and economic dignity.
- Fair-pricing advocacy for essential goods and services
- Community empowerment and public benefit programs
- Youth, senior, and vulnerable-group development support
- Affordable data, internet access, and digital inclusion campaigns
- Partnership support for Public Price Institute and Public Price Africa
Foundation Action Areas
Fair Price Campaign
Advocacy for fairer prices in groceries, food, transport, data, housing, healthcare, infant goods, internet access, and essential services aligned with real living conditions.
Data Price Must Fall
Campaigning for affordable internet access, fair data pricing, digital equality, data that does not unfairly expire, and access for students, youth, rural communities, small businesses, and households.
Community Development & Social Redress
Supporting initiatives that address structural exclusion by creating access to income, dignity, skills, essential services, education, and public opportunity.
Golden Fortune Prize
A public prize and upliftment initiative designed to support dreams, business improvement, mentorship, visibility, and opportunity access for participating communities.
Price Justice Dialogues
Town halls, public roundtables, civic discussions, and stakeholder forums that bring communities, businesses, civil society, and public voices into practical economic dialogue.
Foundation vs Institute
Public Price Foundation and Public Price Institute are connected, but they are not the same. The Foundation carries public-benefit, advocacy, donation, volunteer, and social development work. The Institute focuses on enterprise education, consumer-market learning, and practical market-access development.
Public Price Foundation
Public benefit, advocacy, donations, public programs, community empowerment, fair-pricing campaigns, social development, and partnership mobilisation.
Public Price Institute
Entrepreneurial education, business education, local consumer-market training, enterprise development, fair-pricing dialogue, and market-access opportunities.
Volunteers & Changemakers
Sisonke — together for economic progress. The Foundation works with community leaders, youth activists, students, retired professionals, researchers, communicators, technology advocates, local organisers, and Africans in the diaspora.
Who Can Join
- Community leaders and youth activists
- University students and graduates
- Retired professionals and mentors
- Researchers, writers, media, and digital volunteers
- Technology and digital access advocates
- Diaspora contributors and African development partners
Your Role
Lend your voice. Share your skills. Support awareness. Mobilise communities. Help the Foundation build public programs that create dignity, access, fairness, and opportunity.
How the Foundation Works
Public Support
Donations, sponsorships, funding partnerships, donor foundations, and social investors support the Foundation’s public-benefit programs.
Grassroots Mobilisation
Community-driven campaigns, public awareness, advocacy, and civic participation help the Foundation reach people affected by market unfairness.
Institutional Collaboration
The Foundation collaborates with civic organisations, development partners, educational bodies, businesses, public voices, and policy stakeholders.