Corporate Partners

Shared Interest thanks these corporations for their ongoing support…

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Nielsen, the world’s leading marketing and media information company, is proud to support causes that empower South Africans to achieve economic independence.


Signing agreement between ABSA and Thembani

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Shared Interest’s partner Thembani International Guarantee Fund has signed a memorandum of understanding with ABSA that will allow Thembani to negotiate increased bank risk-sharing on future guarantees. The new relationship is also designed to rapidly increase the number of guarantees Shared Interest and Thembani will issue, and to accelerate the process of placing them.


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Each day around the world, women and children struggle to survive in places with limited access to health care, education or social support. Often, they face a life of abuse, mistreatment, chronic illness and premature death. Many suffer in silence, not knowing what to do or where to turn. Fortunately, community groups large and small are trying to change this, and Johnson & Johnson is too.

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JP Morgan Chase Foundation is not only a donor to Shared Interest; it has also provided two recoverable grants to the guarantee fund to enable Shared Interest to increase its capacity to respond to the demand for new guarantees. The current $500,000 recoverable grant from JP Morgan Chase Foundation will leverage the rand equivalent of $5 million by its recovery date in 2011.

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The BET strongly supports various public awareness campaigns addressing numerous health-related challenges within African-American and African communities.

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Bloomberg L.P. helps charities and non-profit organizations around the world. They support education and literacy programs, health and medical research, social work, arts and culture, public parks and the environment.

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MTV, through numerous initiatives, continues to be a distinguished supporter of human and social rights throughout the world. It has several campaigns with a spotlight on Africa, including a project seeking to end the genocide in Darfur, a program addressing the displacement crisis in Sudan, and a youth-based public awareness initiative focused HIV/AIDS prevention.

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Through the donations of The Western Union Company, its employees and Agents, the Western Union Foundation helps to fund programs that create economic opportunity around the world.