African Development Foundation

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Independent Establishments and Government Corporations

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AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION

1400 I Street NW., Suite 1000, Washington, DC 20005

Phone, 202-673-3916. Fax, 202-673-3810. Internet, www.usadf.gov.

Board of Directors:

CHAIRMAN John O. Agwunobi

Vice Chairman John W. Leslie

Board Members Julius E. Coles, Morgan M. Davis, (3 vacancies)

Staff:

President Lloyd O. Pierson

General Counsel Doris Mason Martin

Chief Financial Officer and Director for William E. Schuerch

Strategic Planning

Chief Information Officer Larry P. Bevan

Director of Management and Administration and M. Catherine Gates

Chief Human Capital Officer

Director of Legislative and Public Affairs (vacancy)

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The African Development Foundation's goals are to alleviate poverty and promote broad-based sustainable development and empowerment in Africa; to expand local capacity to promote and support grassroots, participatory development; and to enhance and strengthen U.S. relations with Africa through effective development assistance.

The African Development Foundation was established by the African Development Foundation Act (22 U.S.C. 290h) as a Government corporation to support the self-help efforts of the poor in Africa.

The Foundation invests in private and nongovernmental organizations in Africa to promote and support innovative enterprise development, create jobs, and increase incomes of the poor. It seeks to expand local institutional and financial capacities to foster entrepreneurship, ownership, and community-based economic...