- Appointment of the Board of the Board of Trustees
- Appointment of the Project Management Consultant
- Launch of the Dr Richard Maponya – University of Johannesburg Think Tank on Entrepreneurship (26th July 2014)
- Launch of the Dr Richard Maponya Annual Lecture on Entrepreneurship (Tuesday, 18 November 2014), at the Turbine Hall in Newtown, Johannesburg. The theme for the inaugural Dr Richard Maponya Annual Lecture on Entrepreneurship was: Creating Successful New Enterprises – The Key to Economic Growth of South Africa. The lecture was delivered by Prof Robert Dale Hisrich, the Garvin Professor of Global Entrepreneurship and Director of the Walker Centre for Global Entrepreneurship at the Thunderbird School of Global Management, the world’s leading school of global business, based in Arizona, United States of America.
- Naming of Dr Richard Maponya Soweto Annual Entrepreneurship Conference, by the University of Johannesburg
- Registration of the Dr Richard Maponya Institute for Skills and Entrepreneurship Development (9th December 2014)
- The opening of the Institute Bank Account at ABSA Bank
- The application for the Public Benefit Organization (PBO) status filed with the South African Revenue Service (SARS)
- The appointment of the Auditors, Grant Thornton
- The signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Dr Richard Maponya Institute and the University of Johannesburg (4th June 2015)
- Launch of Gauteng Province Annual Student Industry Tour, to Maponya Mall, Soweto Toyota, and Soweto Volkswagen, in partnership with Barloworld Motor Retail, by 30 final year students at the University of Johannesburg (28th July 2015)
- Hosted The 2nd Dr Richard Maponya Institute – University of Johannesburg Think Tank on Entrepreneurship, (19th August 2015)