Set up in 1983 to raise funds and allow the social sector to focus on serving those in need, the Community Chest (ComChest) has grown to support a hundred social agencies and benefits almost 100,000 people each year.
The National Council of Social Service (NCSS), which oversees it, is now looking to encourage more social service agencies to work together by introducing a new fund they can tap, instead of having to individually fund them and their programmes.
To this end, the council launched the 4ST (Social Service Sector Strategic Thrusts) Partnership Fund, to foster further collaboration between the social sector, the public sector and businesses, to help those in need.
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