Past, Present and Future

Our mission: To take action that will help demonstrate the importance and power of individual participation and collective action in helping to solve the problems, address issues and challenges that presently confront our global society.

Hunger still exists, our climate is challenged, conflicts rage around the world. The need for people to care and act still exists, perhaps more urgently than ever before. We honor our past and those who led our early efforts, those who made our initial efforts so impactful, and salute those dedicated visionaries and volunteers who are spearheading our efforts today. Past is prologue to the future and our future world will only be as good as we enable it to be.

Development Organizations

  • Christain Relief & Development Assoc. (CRDA)
    Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
    Website: www.crdaethiopia.org

  • Africare
    Washington, DC
    Website: www.africare.org

  • Trust Africa
    Dakar, Senegal
    Website: www.trustafrica.org

  • Sight for Africa
    Accra, Ghana
    Website: www.sightforafrica.net

  • Oxfam America
    Boston, MA
    Website: www.oxfamamerica.org

  • African Women's Development Fund (AWDF)
    Accra, Ghana
    Website: www.awdf.org

  • Artists for A New South Africa (ANSA)
    Los Angeles, CA
    Website: www.ansafrica.org

  • ***Viva Le Paysan
    Burkina Faso

  • ***FDEA
    Dakar, Senegal

  • ***RADI Dakar
    Senegal

  • Women's Hope Education & Training Trust (Wheat Trust)
    South Africa www.wheattrust.org

  • General Union of Cooperatives (UGC)
    Maputo, Mozambique
    Email: ugcapm@mail.torpical.co.mz

  • Ethiopian Gemini Trust
    Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
    Website: www.ethiopialives.net/egt

  • Ethiopian Red Cross
    Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
    Website: www.redcrosseth.org

  • American Friend Service Committee
    Philadelphia, PA
    Website: www.afsc.org

  • Fregenet Foundation
    Addis Ababa, Ethiopia/Los Angeles
    Website: www.Fregenetfoundation.org

Education - Policy - Training - Media

  • ***Institute for Popular Education
    Bamako, Mali

  • Inter-Africa Group
    Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
    Website: www.interafricagroup.org

  • Africa Leadership Forum
    Ota, Nigeria
    Website: www.africaleadership.org

  • DATA
    Washington, DC
    Website: www.data.org

  • Global Exchange
    San Francisco, CA
    Website: www.globalexchange.org

  • Boston Pan-African Forum
    Boston, MA
    Website: www.bpaf.org

  • UCLA African Studies Center
    Los Angeles, CA
    Website: www.international.ucla.edu/africa

  • Mo Amin Foundation (Moforce)
    Nairobi, Kenya
    Website: www.moforce.com

  • All Africa.com/Foundation
    Washington, DC
    Website: www.allafrica.com

  • Camerapix News Production
    Nairobi, Kenya
    Website: www.camerapix.com

  • Pambazuka Fahamu News
    Website: www.pambazuka.org

  • Foreign Policy in Focus
    Washington, DC
    Website: www.fpif.org

  • Africa Action
    Washington, DC
    Website: www.africaaction.org

  • Africa Leadership Forum (ALF)
    Nigeria
    Website: www.africaleadership.org

  • Constituency for Africa (CFA)
    Washington, DC
    Website: www.cfanet.org

Present Board Members

  • Lloyd Greig, President
  • Jay Cooper, Secretary
  • Ed Rada, Treasurer
  • Ken Kragen
  • Edmond Keller
  • *Marcia Thomas, Executive Director 1988-Present

Original

  • Ken Kragen, President
  • Harry Belafonte, Vice President
  • Quincy Jones, Vice President
  • Jay Cooper, Secretary
  • Len Freedman, Treasurer
  • Lloyd Greig
  • Marlon Jackson
  • Michael Jackson
  • Irwin Redlener, MD
  • Lionel Richie
  • Randall Robinson
  • Kenny Rogers
  • Maurice Strong
  • *Marty Rogol, Executive Director 1985-87