Research & Insight
Building language, evidence, and understanding around indigenous capital stewardship.
Awareness & Narrative Change
Expanding how wealth, responsibility, stewardship, and long-term investment are understood.
Long-term, inclusive, self-determined prosperity depends not only on creating wealth, but on stewarding, preserving, and mobilizing indigenous capital across generations
Vision
We envision a world of nations where long-term, widely shared prosperity endures across generations, anchored by indigenous capital and strengthened by a values-aligned ecosystem.
Mission
To strengthen the ecosystem that enables indigenous capital to be effectively stewarded, governed, and deployed as the anchor capital that attracts and catalyzes the values-aligned partners, both domestic and global—needed to advance a nation’s long-term, inclusive prosperity.
The Problem & Solution
While our thesis is universally relevant and geographically agnostic, we begin on the African continent, where rising wealth, legacy-building, and systemic opportunities intersect.
The Problem
Africa is home to one of the fastest-growing concentrations of wealth in the world. Yet despite thousands of families possessing fortunes capable of influencing entire economies, the continent has far too few family offices—the professionalized structures that turn private wealth into well-governed, long-term capital for development.
The Solution
This gap matters. Family offices are not just investment vehicles; they are influential capital multipliers and intentional allocators. When well-structured and skillfully operated, they can mobilize financial, social, political, and relational capital. They are uniquely innovative and flexible—able to be fast or patient, commercial or philanthropic, risk-tolerant or stabilizing.
Theory of Change
When African families adopt well-governed family office structures and partner with development actors, three outcomes follow
Our Work
Policy & Ecosystem Dialogue
Supporting stronger environments for capital formation, entrepreneurship, philanthropy, family office development, and long-term investment.
Convening
Bringing together families, entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, development institutions, researchers, and cultural leaders.
Who We Work With
7GI collaborates with philanthropic and institutional leaders, and a growing network of African and global partners across
Family and institutional capital holders
Academic institutions
Policy think tanks and government actors
Law firms and advisory firms
Public and private foundations
Regional and international philanthropies
Development finance institutions (DFIs)
Cultural and creative sector leaders
Measurable Impacts
Every new family office in Africa unleashes millions, often billions in long-term, flexible capital that governments and institutions alone cannot provide.The result is Africa-led prosperity, aligned with 11 of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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SDG 1
No Poverty
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SDG 4
Quality Education
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SDG 7
Affordable and Clean Energy
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SDG 8
Decent work and Economic Growth
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SDG 9
Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
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SDG 10
Reduced Inequality
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SDG 11
Sustainable Cities and Communities
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SDG 12
Responsible Consumption and Production
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SDG 13
Climate Action
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SDG 16
Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions
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SDG 17
Partnership for the Goals
Our Growing Network
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Donate
Your support empowers 7GI to expand research, advocacy, convenings, and to equip Africa’s wealth-holders to drive sustainable development. All contributions are tax-deductible and may include:
- Donations or grants (individuals, families, institutions, foundations, DAFs)
- Event or program sponsorship with branding and visibility
- Gifting of assets with established value
- In-kind contributions (expertise, venues, services)
- Volunteering as a guest speaker, trainer, or mentor
Africa faces a $200B annual financing gap. While development finance institutions, and governments, play vital roles, families bring something unique: cultural fluency, patient capital, and trusted long-term commitment.
- The awareness and motivation that lead to the knowledge and creation of more family offices across Africa.
- Policy shifts that enable governments to partner effectively with family capital.
- Bridges between African and global families, unlocking co-investment and shared learning.
- More capital flowing to African infrastructure, SMEs, and social enterprises, creating jobs and services in areas like energy, health, food, and education.
