All For Africa

Mission: " To help secure the long-term sustainability of important community level initiatives in health, education, clean water, micro-financing, community development and skills training on the continent of Africa".

In reaction to coming face to face with the impacts of war and poverty on the health and well being of millions of Africans, a group of New York based entrepreneurs launched a number of new ventures to bring significant investment in infrastructure and employment opportunities to the African continent. These projects in manufacturing, energy, telecom, mining and agriculture required significant investment in the physical and social infrastructure. The companies began, very quickly, to see that the right combination of investment in the social infrastructure and the creation of meaningful employment resulted in dramatic improvements in the quality of life, and most importantly, in the sustainability of these improvements. The discipline of the for profit sector forced the development of extremely efficient mechanisms for delivering focused social investment.

These experiences inspired leadership to create a not for profit enterprise with the goal to replicate within a much wider constituency the sustainable development of social infrastructure necessary to improve lives.  Thus All for Africa was born.

While working with a wide group of not for profit organizations around the continent, each with a similar goal, All for Africa recognized that the primary difference in the social impact of the for profit initiatives and the not for profit initiatives was one of sustainability.  Without a continuous source of profits to draw upon most public sector and non-profit programs rely on one time investments that often fail as the local population lacks the means to continue the funding of on-going operational expenses. All for Africa’s mission was now clear! All for Africa develops business models within the not for profit arena. These models are designed to generate long-term sustainable revenue streams to fund the operational expenses of the many organizations already doing excellent work on the ground.  In essence, All for Africa creates the systems, which then generate a large number of mini endowments. Notably, these models not only perform the critical function of providing sustainability to existing and proposed projects and programs, but they actually bring additional jobs and investment to Africa.

SFF partners with All for Africa by investing in the beneficiary palm oil trust. We have purchased 4 trusts and hopefully they will be passed to the charities of our choice. In addition to that, Barry is a member of their advisory board.

http://www.allforafrica.org