African Development Foundation

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Independent Establishments and Government Corporations

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AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION

1400 ``I'' Street NW., Washington, DC 20005

Phone, 202-673-3916. Internet, www.adf.gov.

Board of Directors:

Chairman Ernest G. Green

Vice Chair Willie Grace Campbell

Members of the Board Claude Allen, Henry McKoy, (3 vacancies)

Staff:

President Nathaniel Fields

Vice President (vacancy)

General Counsel Doris Martin

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The African Development Foundation assists and supports indigenous, community-based self-help organizations in their efforts to solve their own development problems.

The African Development Foundation was established by the African Development Foundation Act (22 U.S.C. 290h) as a nonprofit Government corporation to support the self-help efforts of poor people in African countries. The Foundation became operational in 1984 and is governed by a seven-member Board of Directors, appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. By law, five Board members are from the private sector and two are from the Government.

The purposes of the Foundation are to:

--strengthen the bonds of friendship and understanding between the people of Africa and the United States;

--support self-help development activities at the local level designed to promote opportunities for community development;

--stimulate and promote effective and expanding participation of Africans in their development process; and

--encourage the establishment and...