Aid to Africa Federation, Inc.
Phone: (202) 531-2000 Email: www.africacharities.org
Works to raise awareness and support for conservation, food, health, and development programs through a network of charities in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Phone: (202) 546-7961 Email: www.africaaction.org
Works for political, economic and social justice, providing information and mobilizing the public to improve policies of the U.S. and multinational institutions toward Africa.
Phone: (406) 495-9184 Email: www.africanconservancy.org
Works with partners throughout Africa to protect and rehabilitate wilderness areas and to bring about socioeconomic changes that reverse trends in wilderness destruction.
African Studies Association, Inc.
Phone: (732) 932-8173 Email: www.africanstudies.org
Largest organization in the world devoted to promoting information exchange about Africa. Publishes research, supports African studies, and provides information to the general public.
Arlington Academy of Hope, Inc.
Phone: (571) 334-7626 Email: www.arlingtonacademyofhope.org
Created and supports a model elementary school for 200 children in eastrn Uganda. Also, supports ten local elementary schools with equipment and teaching resources.
Books for Africa, Inc.
Phone: (651) 602-9844 Email: www.booksforafrica.org
Collects, sorts, ships and distributes books to children’s libraries and schools in 23 African countries. Supports research and reference libraries in Malawi and Tanzania.
Catalytic Communities
Phone: (301) 637-7360 Email: www.catcomm.org
Helping local leaders in isolated communities in Africa and around the world share solutions to health, education, and other problems through physical and internet interactions.
Phone: (912) 634-0065 Email: www.docs.org
Links volunteer physicians from the U.S. with African national physicians from the U.S. with African national physicians to exchange medical techniques, faith, and hope for the betterment of African health care.
East Africa Medical Assistance Foundation
Phone: (651) 481-0915 Email: www.eastafricafoundation.org
Recruits volunteers to provide medical education and training, medical equipment, and medical care in East Africa. Raises in-kind and monetary donations for radiology equipment.
Phone: (202) 331-1333 Email: www.democracy-africa.org
Works o integrate African nations into the mainstream of the global economy by educating Africa’s leaders and citizens about democracy and free enterprise.
Phone: (703) 647-5176 Email: www.fhssa.org
Supports African organizations that provide home-based hospice and palliative care to the nearly 30 million Africans who are dying of HIV/AIDS.
Phone: (360) 370-5756 Email: www.friendsofafrica.org
Encourages wildlife conservation in East and Southern Africa by working with rural communities bordering wildlife areas. Provides education, employment, health care, and community programs.
Phone: (970) 923-2466 Email: www.friendsofafricainternational.org
Supports organizations and programs designed to preserve and protect African wildlife, environment and culture. Affiliated with Save the Elephants and Bill Woodley Mount Kenya Trust.
Phone: (630) 954-3388 Email: www.friendsofconservation.org
Works with children and families in East Africa to sustain Africa’s heritage by linking community development and wildlife preservation through education and action.
GAIA Vaccine Foundation
Phone: (401) 453-2068 Email: www.gaiavaccine.org
Working to make a global “cross-strains” vaccine for AIDS that is free and accessible to people in Africa and throughout the world.
Global Greengrants Fund, Inc.
Phone: (303) 939-9866 Email: www.greengrants.org
Helps strengthen the grassroots environmental movement in Africa and other developing regions by making small grants to local groups striving for environmental sustainability.
Growth Through Learning, Inc.
Phone: (508) 752-2042 Email: www.growththroughlearning.org
Provides educational opportunities by offering scholarships to deserving East African girls and young women. Also encourages cross-cultural exchanges of information with East African nations.
Phone: (650) 833-6645 Email: www.worldagroforestrycentre.org
Based in Nairobi, Kenya, world’s subsistence farmers incorporate productive trees on their farms to raise family income and well-being.
Phone: (617) 496-3676 Email: www.icipe.org
Searches for “smart cures” for tropical diseases and sustainable food production through research on mosquitoes, tsetse, bee keeping, and beneficial and other insects in Africa.
Phone: (817) 237-9034 Email: www.elephantconservation.org
Dedicated to preserving elephants by providing resources including funds, equipment and scientific expertise to support elephant conservation and habitat protection programs in Africa and worldwide.
Phone: (650) 833-6660 Email: www.ilri.org
Based in Kenya, conducts livestock research that helps African families find pathways out of poverty through increased incomes, improved farm products, and increased family security.
International Potato Center (CIP/Vitamin A for Africa)
Phone: (650) 833-6635 Email: www.cipotato.org/vitaa
Supports a food-based solution to vitamin A deficiency in ten African countries. Works with communities to eliminate this major cause of blindness in African children.
Phone: (212) 629-8001 Email: www.itdp.org
Provides bicycles to African AIDS workers and deserving students and helps African governments develop responsible transport solutions. Promotes environmentally sustainable and equitable transportation systems worldwide.
Kabissa, Inc.
Phone: (202) 265-6116 Email: www.kabissa.org
Makes technology a force in Africa, empowering 800+organizations to use the internet to strengthen democracy, stop HIV/AIDS, and fight for women’s rights.
Phone: (201) 736-2239 Email: www.thesullivanfoundation.org
Promotes the principles of self-help, social responsibility and human rights. Works to enable economic opportunity, empowerment, and responsibility in African countries and the African-American community.
Phone: (202) 237-0535 Email: www.maasaigirlseducation.org
Works to improve the literacy, health, and economic well-being of Maasai women in Kenya through scholarships for girls and community education.
Malawi Project, Inc.
Phone: (317) 255-2758 Email: www.malawiproject.org
Humanitarian aid group supplying medicines, farming equipment, volunteer teachers and books, and food aid to children and vulnerable families in Malawi, Central Africa.
Medical Bridges, Inc.
Phone: (713) 748-8183 Email: www.medicalbridges.org
Bridging the healthcare gap worldwide by donating medical and surgical supplies and equipment to charitable medical care providers in Africa and other developing countries.
Phone: (301) 562-1920 Email: www.mcd.org
Provides technical assistance throughout Africa and other developing countries to improve maternal and child health, combat infectious diseases, and improve water and sanitation facilities.
Medicine for Mali
Phone: (515) 201-2993 Email: www.medicineformali.org
Provides services and supplies, health classes for women and children, clean water projects, economic development through microfinance loans, education, and sustainable agriculture in Mali.
Phone: (415) 581-7000 Email: www.pgaf.org
Works to broaden access to HIV/AIDS antiretroviral treatment and care in African and other developing countries and to support development of an effective HIV vaccine.
Phone: (617) 432-5256 Email: www.pih.org
Draws on the resources of the world’s leading medical and academic institutions bringing the benefits institutions bringing the benefits of medical science to the world’s poorest and sickest communities.
Reaching Arms International, Inc.
Phone: (763) 591-0791 Email: www.raiadopt.org
An international adoption and humanitarian organization providing care for homeless children in Africa through Cradle of Children’s Hope orphanage and in other developing countries.
Phone: (916) 455-4499 Email: www.solarcookers.org
Assisting African women to make, use, and sell solar cookers that cook meals and pasteurize water to benefit their communities and environments.
TransAfrica Forum, Inc.
Phone: (202) 223-1960 Email: www.transafricaforum.org
The major research, educational, and organizing institution for the African-American community ensuring that US policies are just and fair to people of African descent worldwide.
Trees for the Future, Inc.
Phone: (800) 643-0001 Email: www.treesftf.org
Provides technical training, planning, and plant materials to local groups in African and other developing countries to initiate self-help projects for environmentally sustainable development.
Twana Twitu, Inc.
Phone: (707) 982-2593 Email: www.twanatwitu.org
In Bantu means “our children,” Twana Twitu supports Kenyan AIDS orphans by providing education, medical care, and food and clothing through home-based, community supported programs.
Ubuntu Education Fund, Inc.
Phone: (646) 827-1190 Email: www.ubuntufund.org
Serves 40,000+ orphaned and vulnerable children through health and education programs in Eastern Cape, South Africa. Supports libraries, career and computer centers, HIV intervention programs.
Phone: (214) 824-0661 Email: www.uccf.org
Cares for AIDS orphans and other disadvantaged children in Uganda with the goal of helping them become healthy and productive members of society.
Phone: (214) 343-6422 Email: www.ugandapartners.org
Provides scholarships to Ugandans attending Uganda Christian University. Supports UCU through building projects, technical expertise, and networking to increase the number of professional of faith.
World Hope International, Inc.
Phone: (888) 466-4673 Email: www.worldhope.org
Hope and healing for a hurting world. Sponsors programs that provide food, medicine and education for children and families in Africa and other underdeveloped countries.