{"id":3963,"date":"2022-08-15T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/?p=3963"},"modified":"2022-08-14T13:07:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T11:07:04","slug":"sa-harvest-celebrates-international-womens-day-by-appointing-2nd-woman-to-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/articles\/sa-harvest-celebrates-international-womens-day-by-appointing-2nd-woman-to-board\/","title":{"rendered":"SA Harvest Celebrates International Women\u2019s Day by Appointing 2nd Woman to Board"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As the world celebrates International Women\u2019s Day<\/em> on 8 March, Charlene\u2019s appointment to the board of SA Harvest<\/em> reinforces the value of women leaders in leadership positions. Charlene joins founder of OzHarvest <\/em>and expat Ronni Kahn as the second woman on the board of SA Harvest<\/em>. Founded by Alan Browde in 2019, SA Harvest<\/em> has, in its first 31 months, delivered 18,8 million meals and rescued 5,6 million kilograms of food from going to waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Charlene was born and raised in South Africa where she co-founded the global digital marketing firm, Clicks2Customers<\/em>, in 2003 with her husband Vinny Lingham. Clicks2Customers<\/em> won the Top Technology Company<\/em> award in South Africa in 2006 and several other awards for innovation in the USA. Charlene moved to Silicon Valley in 2007, where she worked as a growth marketing consultant for Facebook and various start-ups. Charlene also worked with community-driven Silicon Valley organizations to help grassroots social impact initiatives. She now spends most of her time leading global social impact projects for the Lingham Family Trust<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charlene was formerly the USA-based ambassador for the Nelson Mandela Institute<\/em> and was responsible for hosting and organising the first-ever international fundraising event as part of the Mandela Centenary Celebrations<\/em>. Attended by over 100 people in San Francisco, the event raised over R1 million for the Nelson Mandela Institute for Education and Rural Development<\/em>. Charlene\u2019s commitment to social impact has also included mentoring high school students through Build.org<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commenting on her affinity with SA Harvest\u2019s<\/em> mission, Charlene says, \u201cSA Harvest<\/em> has created a model that\u2019s sustainable. They want to get out of the business of charity and they\u2019re addressing hunger through a collaborative approach to create a system that fights two problems simultaneously \u2013 climate change and hunger. SA Harvest\u2019s<\/em> model is based on the premise that hunger exists not because we don\u2019t have the resources to fight it, but because we\u2019re not collaborating to connect those resources to where they are needed. In the case of both climate change and hunger, the solutions can be found through the re-distribution of resources. If we look at waste and how we share our resources, we\u2019ll be in a different position as humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charlene\u2019s goal in joining the SA Harvest<\/em> board is to create a network of impact, and to bring a community of expats together. \u201cBeing in California and having the benefit of seeing how other organisations are doing similar work here, I\u2019m hoping to bring ideas to the table and to give SA Harvest<\/em> more exposure through digital marketing efforts like virtual events.\u201d Charlene\u2019s skills in trend analysis and partner marketing will be valuable assets to the South African food rescue organisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of Charlene\u2019s visions for her contribution to SA Harvest<\/em> is to put the fun back into fundraising, and to create opportunities for expats whose heart is still firmly in South Africa to contribute to SA Harvest\u2019s<\/em> long-term goal of ending hunger in new and different ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charlene is married to Vinny Lingham, a well-recognized South African internet entrepreneur known for Shark-on-Shark Tank South Africa<\/em>. He co-founded The Silicon Cape Initiative<\/em> in Cape Town back in 2010. Together they own have a venture capital fund in SA and provide employment through the fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They live with their two sons in the USA, and both have strong ties to South Africa, returning often to visit family. \u201cIt\u2019s important to me that our children learn about the opportunities for change and that things can get better. They may live in California but they\u2019re global citizens with roots in South Africa,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

USA-based South African expat Charlene Lingham has joined the board of SA Harvest, the South African food rescue organisation whose mission is to end hunger in South Africa. Along with her passion for social impact, Charlene brings a unique blend of insights and experience based on her background in entrepreneurship and growth marketing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-schoolscharity"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-1.png",1244,275,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-1-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-1-300x66.png",300,66,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-1-768x170.png",640,142,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-1-1024x226.png",640,141,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-1.png",1244,275,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-1.png",1244,275,false],"magazine-7-slider-full":["https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-1.png",1244,275,false],"magazine-7-slider-center":["https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-1-936x275.png",936,275,true],"magazine-7-featured":["https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-1-1024x226.png",1024,226,true],"magazine-7-medium":["https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-1-720x275.png",720,275,true],"magazine-7-medium-square":["https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-1-675x275.png",675,275,true]},"author_info":{"info":["TheLife Team"]},"category_info":"Articles & Advertisers<\/a> Schools and Charity<\/a>","tag_info":"Schools and Charity","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3966,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3963\/revisions\/3966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}