Corporate Social Responsibility

VENTURES AFRICA – Curro Holdings, the JSE-listed education company, the PIC, South Africa’s biggest sovereign wealth fund and Old Mutual, the life assurer, have acquired a Polokwane-based Northern Academy Independent Secondary School for 150 million rand ($17 million). This is among the first deals of its nature in South Africa as the country’s private sector [...]

VENTURES AFRICA - As part of its corporate social investment policy, British American Tobacco (BAT) South Africa, has pledged its support to Grootbos Foundation‘s “Growing the Future Food Production and Life Skills Training”, a programme that empowers previously disadvantaged young women between the ages of 20 and 35 from the surrounding communities of Stanford and [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – To mark the fifth anniversary of Global Handwashing Day, Unilever and the Earth Institute have today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in New York to bring handwashing with soap, a lifesaving habit – to Millennium Villages across 10 sub-Saharan African countries. The MOU which was signed by Jeffrey Sachs, Director of [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – Africa’s richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has donated a total of 430 million naira ($2.7 million) to flood victims in Kogi State. The cement king through his philanthropic foundation gave 150 million naira cash ($950,000) with food supplies and relief materials worth 50 million naira ($337,000) to the northern state badly ravaged [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – Addressing Member States and stakeholders at a High-Level Summit on the margins of the 67th session of the UN General Assembly in New York, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, yesterday announced the appointment of Dr. Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella of Sierra Leone, currently the Director-General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and [...]

VENTURES AFRICA - Global Press Institute (GPI) is the brain child of Cristi Hegranes, a 31-year old American journalist and former foreign correspondent that is changing the face of international journalism and women’s empowerment. In 6 years, GPI has grown from just Cristi, to news desks which employ 120 women in 25 countries, including desks in [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – The Water Futures Partnership has revealed that it is in talks with six or seven companies with a view to enlarging membership of the Partnership, with four of the potential partners on the verge of officially joining the group. A high-profile interested party to these discussions is the Coca-Cola Company, which has [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – In order to enforce corporate integrity, two wholly-owned subsidiaries of Oxford University Press (OUP), Oxford University Press East Africa Limited (OUPEA) and Oxford University Press Tanzania Limited (OUPT), have been blacklisted from participating in World Bank projects and other agency projects which have an agreement with the World Bank like the African [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – A report designed to analyse the performance of the listed petroleum products marketing companies (PPMCs) in Nigeria has placed Oando Plc as number one in the area of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), with its contributions towards welfare and social services up to the tune of N72.3 million ($446,434).     Accroding to [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – Abraaj Capital, a leading private equity firm investing in global growth markets, and the American University in Cairo (AUC) today announced the creation of the “Abraaj Capital Professorship in Private Equity” at the School of Business at AUC. University President Lisa Anderson commended the development stating that the university’s delighted with Abraaj’s [...]

By Ayodeji Abiola   “How do we get ‘big money’ into [Nigeria’s] higher education to save the students from its financial burden while guaranteeing them quality learning?”   VENTURES AFRICA – Imagine the question above being the sole agenda and the Honorable Minister’s opening sentence at a special business meeting of the Ministry of Education? [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – As part of the 2012 Africa CEO Round-table & Conference on Corporate Sustainability & Responsibility (AR-CSR™) activities and in partnership with Nigeria Leadership Initiative (NLI); ThistlePraxis Consulting is pleased to announce the Sustainable Solutions Showcase (SSS), an initiative that seeks to promote, expose and connect innovations and inventions of social entrepreneurs with potential investors, partners, [...]

By Deji Oladoye “Blacks philanthropy has increased…” – Williman Gray HI, president and CEO of UNCF   VENTURES AFRICA – Do Africans still have doubt about a new dawn of philanthropic atmosphere glinting on the continent’s soil? These past years have seen the emergence of more noteworthy givers, cash-makers with notable efforts, carrying the crest [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – Popularly called ‘Mother of Sustainable Development’; Dr. Gro Brundtland, Youngest ever, Two-time, First & Only Female Prime Minister of Norway, Former Director General, World Health Organisation, Chairman, UN World Commission on the Environment and Development (aka Brundtland Commission) and UN Special Envoy on Climate Change will visit Nigeria in June to headline [...]

VENTURES AFRICA - A group of six Young Global Leaders (YGLs) from Africa are being supported by the African Fellowship Programme, which was set up in May 2011 by Aliko Dangote, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Dangote Group in Nigeria. The objective of the fund is to help African YGLs from civil society and [...]