Investing in
the future of
Southern Africa
We empower black-owned businesses in Southern Africa to drive racial and economic justice, create jobs, and build resilient, sustainable communities.
Unlocking Capital.
Empowering Entrepreneurs.
Driving Change.
Shared Interest advances economic, racial, and gender justice in Southern Africa by mobilizing capital for Black-owned small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). A U.S.-based guarantee fund with strong anti-apartheid roots, we partner with impact-conscious investors and donors to support financial institutions that drive job creation and sustainable community development.
Impact model
Our Innovative 5 Step Approach
Shared Interest’s transformative new partnership model takes an innovative approach to advancing racial and economic justice across Southern Africa by unlocking local capital and strengthening resources that benefit the region’s most promising emerging entrepreneurs and small and growing businesses (SGBs).
Shared Interest has provided a pathway to help Black Southern African smallholder farmers, women entrepreneurs, and small businesses gain access to credit despite being excluded or marginalized by the mainstream financial system. Meet some of the extraordinary entrepreneurs, partners, and stakeholders we have served across Southern Africa over the past 30 years.
“Your partnership — as necessary now as it was in 1994 — has helped us develop new strategies and tools to give substance and shape to the vision and energies of our people.”
