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The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) is a feminist non-governmental organization that operates throughout Africa and the Middle East. The AWDF’s purpose is to secure funding from different types of donors to create grants, which are then used to support a variety of feminist causes and organizations throughout the region. [1]
By September 1984, the USADF Board of Directors awarded grants to 11 grassroots organizations totaling $838,000. This first batch of USADF grants was issued in Botswana, Lesotho, Liberia, Mali, Niger, and Zambia. From 1985 to 1987, USADF carried out its development model in 19 African countries, awarding over 100 grants totaling $10.3 million.
The National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) was incorporated as The National Black Chamber of Commerce, Inc., in 1993.It is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, nonsectarian organization dedicated to the economic empowerment of African American communities.
Countries have limited space in their budgets, and borrowing more to fund climate goals will worsen their considerable debt burdens, argue African leaders, who are seeking a rapid boost in financing.
The National Action Network (NAN) is an American not-for-profit, civil-rights organization founded by the Reverend Al Sharpton in New York City, New York, in early 1991. [1] In a 2016 profile, Vanity Fair called Sharpton "arguably the country's most influential civil rights leader".
AAI's annual State of Education on Africa (SOE) conference is a space for learning and dialogue between students, parents, teachers, leaders, and innovators interested in transforming K-12 education by infusing it with scholarly and unbiased knowledge about Africa and the worldwide Diaspora through effective teaching that supports student academic achievement.
The African American Policy Forum (AAPF) was co-founded in 1996 [4] by Kimberlé Crenshaw, Professor of Law at UCLA and Columbia Law School and leading authority in the area of Civil Rights and Black feminist legal theory; [5] and Luke Charles Harris, Professor of Political Science at Vassar College and leading authority in the field of Critical race theory. [6]
The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund is a program formed in 2017 [1] to aid stewards of Black cultural sites throughout the nation in preserving both physical landmarks, their material collections and associated narratives.