FOR ENTREPRENEURS & FAMILIES
Personal advice.Turn your intentions to give into a clear direction, meaningful partnerships and a contribution you can sustain.
Start a private conversationA NEW CHAPTER OF CONTRIBUTION
Building a business takes judgement, commitment and a willingness to learn. Thoughtful philanthropy asks for those qualities too.
You may be considering giving for the first time, responding to requests as they arrive, or looking for greater direction in what you already support.
We help you work through the questions that matter: what you care about, where your resources can contribute, whom to work alongside, and how to sustain that relationship.
Your intentions matter.
So do the priorities of the people your giving will affect.
HOW WE WORK WITH YOU
Begin with a defined engagement.
Develop a longer relationship as your
giving takes shape.
CLARITY & DIRECTION
Define what matters to you and develop a practical approach to giving that reflects your values and the context you wish to support.
RELATIONSHIPS & RESPONSIBILITY
Understand potential partners and build relationships around shared expectations, community priorities and mutual accountability.
CONTINUITY & LEARNING
Have a trusted adviser alongside you as your giving develops, decisions arise and you learn from the relationships you build.
A PRACTICAL PLACE TO BEGIN
A focused advisory engagement to help you make deliberate choices about your philanthropy.
Discuss your giving strategyScope, timing and a fixed professional fee are agreed before work begins. Family participation can be included.
Explore your entrepreneurial story, motivations, existing giving and the contribution you want to make.
Identify your giving principles and focus areas, informed by research and agreed conversations with relevant stakeholders.
Make choices about resources, your involvement, partner criteria and how decisions will be made.
Refine your written strategy and agree a first-year roadmap, with responsibilities and opportunities to learn.
WHAT GUIDES THE WORK
Money is one part of the contribution.
How people work together shapes
what it makes possible.
Community experience and priorities inform the work from the outset.
Good partnerships make responsibilities, decisions and accountability clear.
A giving strategy develops through experience, reflection and honest dialogue.
PROF ARMAND BAMFOUNDER
THE EXPERIENCE BEHIND THE ADVICE
Purpose and Legacy is founded by Prof Armand Bam, whose work connects business, community and social impact.
Armand is an Associate Professor and Head of Social Impact at Stellenbosch Business School, and Academic Head of its Small Business Academy. His experience spans nonprofit leadership, community engagement, governance and research into inclusion.
He received Stellenbosch University’s Individual Social Impact Award in 2024. His approach brings careful questioning, attention to lived experience and practical responsibility to the choices clients make about giving.
Explore Armand’s academic profilePurpose and Legacy is a separate advisory initiative. Academic affiliations are provided as founder background.
BEFORE WE BEGIN
No. Clarifying your priorities is part of the initial work. We explore what matters to you and learn about the context before narrowing the focus.
We begin with your purpose and intended contribution. If a formal structure becomes relevant, we can help define the questions to take to appropriately qualified legal and tax advisers.
Yes. The scope can include family conversations about shared priorities, participation and how giving might continue over time.
The Giving Strategy engagement has an agreed scope and fixed professional fee. Partner assessment and ongoing support are scoped separately. Fees reflect the advisory work involved.
The initial strategy includes exploration of potential partners. Detailed organisational due diligence and negotiating funding arrangements require a separately agreed engagement.
Our focus is giving strategy, partnerships and implementation. Financial, legal, investment and tax advice remains with appropriately qualified specialists, including your existing advisers.
YOUR NEXT CHAPTER
Tell us a little about where you are in your giving journey. We can explore what you have in mind and whether our approach fits your needs.
info@armandbam.co.zaCape Town, South Africa