Our Community — Oppenheimer Generations

Oppenheimer Partners is a global investment group focused on building a long-term portfolio of businesses by deploying permanent and engaged capital.

Global Endowment is a value-oriented investor, with a strong focus on acquiring high quality businesses for the long-term, held as part of a well-diversified portfolio.

Oppenheimer Generations Asia was established with the objectives of increasing investment exposure and deepening relationships across the region. By having a permanent presence in Singapore, the Asia office is a platform for boosting synergies and catalysing investments between Africa, our home market, and South East Asia.

Nianova is a diverse community of people-centric, innovative businesses aligned in values, embedded in sustainable business practice, net positive impact and job creation.

The Brenthurst Foundation is a Johannesburg-based think-tank which examines ways to drive Africa’s sustainable growth. Founded in 2005, the Foundation is at the frontier of new ideas and innovative actions for strengthening Africa’s economic performance.

Oppenheimer Generations Research & Conservation (OGRC) catalyses targeted research and harnesses dialogue between research and practice to create impact in African landscapes. Our work supports human wellbeing, protects important landscapes and develops better human-nature relationships for the benefit of the African continent.

Oppenheimer Generations Philathropies invest in early-stage opportunities that create inclusive and sustainable growth across the continent. We target our capital into underinvested areas that have a high potential for impact for both people and the natural environment. We consider the interventions that we invest in as tipping points which optimise our resources to test innovation which drive economic growth, inclusion and access to assets.

Nicky and Jonathan Oppenheimer established the South African Future Trust in March 2020 to provide short-term financial relief to SMME employees impacted by the Covid-19 crisis. The SA Future Trust plays an ongoing role in accelerating economic growth and employment creation in South Africa’s SMME-sector. It operates as a public benefit organisation with an independent board of five Trustees – Graça Machel, the Most Reverend Dr Thabo Cecil Makgoba, Jonathan Oppenheimer, Thandi Orleyn and Barend Petersen.

The OMT was founded in 1958 by Harry Oppenheimer. It has a long tradition of investing in education, public interest activities and other philanthropic causes. The Oppenheimer family donated an additional sum of R1bn to the OMT in 2012, underlining the family’s commitment to making a positive difference to South African society.

The Brenthurst Library is regarded by historians as one of the most important repositories of Africana in Southern Africa and one of the largest and most important in private hands.