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... provide direct support to community organizations and enterprises that benefit under served and marginalized communities in Africa.
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USADF - Headlines
USADF's Chairman Speaks About the Agency at the World Economic Forum click here
USADF Chairman's Op-ed Posted on Huffington Post click here
USADF Chairman Feautured in New York Times click here
USADF Funds Historic Level of Grants in Fiscal Year 2009 click here
President Obama Appoints Jack Leslie as Chairman of USADF's Board of Directors click here
USADF President & CEO Gives Interview with AllAfrica.com click here
"USADF Signs First Nine Grants to Support Grassroots Groups in Burkina Faso" click here
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USADF - A Model for Foreign Assistance
The United States African Development Foundation is an independent Federal agency established to support African-designed and African-driven solutions that address grassroots economic and social problems. USADF provides grants of up to $250,000 directly to under-served and marginalized community groups and enterprises. The grants help organizations create tangible benefits such as increasing or sustaining the number of jobs in a community, improving income levels, and addressing social development needs. USADF is a public corporation with a seven member Board of Directors who are nominated by the President and confirmed by the United States Senate.
The following seven key principles serve as guidelines for all USADF management planning, budgeting, and evaluation activities. These priorities help ensure USADF stays true to its mission.
(1) Model high effectiveness and low overhead operations.
(2) Focus program activities on marginalized communities in Africa.
(3) Invest in African ideas through participatory development.
(4) Ensure projects produce long term social and economic results.
(5) Promote African led and managed field project support.
(6) Achieve the highest levels of OPenness and transparency.
(7) Support and develop an equal opportunity, RESULTS DRIVEN STAFF that rewards hard work, dedication to the mission, and personal success.
USADF - In the Press
May 26, 2010 - USADF GRANTEE FROM RWANDA FEATURED IN O MAGAZINE ONLINE
May 18 , 2010 - usadf Chairman Jack Leslie Speaks About Agency at World Economic Forum
May 18 , 2010 - usadf Grantee Featured in Local Ghana Newspaper
April 26, 2010 - usadf Grants Featured in Rwanda's New Times
April 20, 2010 - usadf Featured in US Embassy in Zambia Newsletter, see pages 1 and 6
April 16, 2010 - usadf sIGNS gRANTS TO sUPPORT lIVESTOCK pROJECTS, from Zambia Daily Mail
April 10, 2010 - USADF Grantee to Build Rice Threshing Machine in Rwanda, From Rwanda New Times
MARCH 24, 2010 - USADF gRANTS mZUZU cOFFEE gROWERS k70m, from Malawi Daily Times
mARCH 23 , 2010 - cOFFEE gROWERS bENEFIT FROM usadf, FROM mALAWI nATION
March 22, 2010 - USADF Grantee in Rwanda Receives Training, from Rwanda New Times
January 22, 2010 - USADF CHAIRMAN JACK LESLIE OP-ED ON HUFFINGTON POST
December 11, 2009 - USADF Grantee Mtiya Threads in Swazi Observer
November 10, 2009 - USADF Chairman Featured in NEw York Times
OCTOBER 12, 2009 - us eMBASSY gIVES gRANTS TO sELF hELP pROJECTS
USADF - News Releases
USADF Welcomes Ambassador Veiga from Cape Verde
USADF Signs Two Grants with Community Groups in Liberia
USADF Welcomes Rwandan Grantees to Washington Headquarters for Grant Signing Ceremony
USADF Signs Two Grants to Support Marginalized Populations in Cape Verde
USADF Signs Two Grants to Support Women Shea Butter Producers in Burkina Faso
USADF Holds Mini Fair in Lusaka Highlighting Grantees' Work
USADF President Signs Three Grants During Visit to Zambia...
USADF Funds New Projects to Raise Incomes for People in Senegal...
usadF Commits Funding for People Living with Autism in Nigeria...
USADF Signs Three Grants to Support Rural Senegalese Farmers...
usadF Signs Five Grants to Support Small Scale Sorghum Farmers in Nigeria...
UASDF Signs Two Grants to Support Marginalized Populations in Benin...
usadF Signs Three Grants to Support Marginalized Groups in Bauchi and Kaduna States, Nigeria...
USADF Signs Two Grants to Support Coffee and Sunflower Seed Oil Production in Uganda...
USADF Signs Two Grants to Support Potato Farmers in Burkina Faso...
USADF Signs Two Grants to Support Food Production and Higher Incomes in Rwanda...
USADF Signs Three Grants to Support Grassroots Groups in Mali...
USADF Signs Two Grants to Support Marginalized Populations in Burundi, most Benefactors are Women...
USADF Signs Two Grants to Support Rural Milk Producers in Nigeria...
USADF Signs Two Grants to Support Fishing Associations in Zambia...
USADF Signs Three Grants in Cape Verde to Support Higher Incomes for Marginalized Groups...
usadF Signs Two Grants to Support Coffee Growers in Malawi...
usadf, u.s. eMBASSY IN zAMBIA, gOVERNMENT OF zAMBIA, AND zATAC hOLD cEREMONY IN mONGU, zAMBIA...
usadf Funds Historical Level of Grants in Fiscal Year 2009...
usadf sIGNs ThrEE gRANTS tO sUPPORT lIVESTOCK mARKETS IN bENIN...
usadf sIGNs Two Grants to Support Women's Groups in Burkina Faso...
usadf sIGNs Four Grants To Support Economic Development in Senegal...
Grants to Support Grassroots Development in the West African Country of Benin...
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