U.S. African Chamber of Commerce Foundations

USACC Foundation
The USACC Foundation is committed to the purpose of giving African entrepreneurs alternatives for life preparation and life-long learning by developing and implementing initiatives and educational campaigns to awaken and nurture their entrepreneurial spirit. The Foundation will leverage corporate and public support to ensure that existing and aspiring African entrepreneurs gain access and achieve success in the world of business. To fulfill this mission, the USACC Foundation builds alliances, partnerships and collaborative efforts to link African entrepreneurs of all ages to educational programs that will develop and enhance their critical thinking, leadership and entrepreneurship skills. In addition to our focus on leadership development skill-sets for all principal stakeholders within our national network, the USACC Foundation is strategically focused on advancing the development of a African Business policy and research agenda that seeks to illustrate the trends, challenges and business development opportunities that benefit African entrepreneurs.

Another significant area of strategic and programmatic activity for the USACC Foundation is the development of Chamber and Entrepreneur Capacity Building strategies that further the capacity of our network to leverage resources to achieve operational improvements that are growth-driven with measurable outcomes of benefit to local and regional African Chambers of Commerce and Africa and African entrepreneurs from throughout the country. The Foundation aims to leverage corporate and public support to ensure African entrepreneurs and African Chambers of Commerce gain access and achieve success in the business world. The Foundation believes these relationships will help African entrepreneurs, including African youth and African Chambers of Commerce to expand their horizons and accomplishments locally, nationally as well as internationally.

USSCC will also encourage the African Union Chambers to Educate about Trade Opportunity other Regional Economical Development throughout the African Continent and Encouraging the African Growth Opportunity Act for American Corporation to do Business in African.

Programs:
The USACCl Foundation’s mission is to advance systemic change to benefit communities around the world by investing in, connecting and celebrating social entrepreneurs. Social entrepreneurs are proven leaders whose approaches and solutions to social problems are helping to better the lives and circumstances of countless underserved or disadvantaged individuals. By identifying the people and programs already bringing positive changes to communities throughout the world, the USACCl Foundation empowers them to extend their reach, deepen their impact and fundamentally improve society. Wealth is built through a lifelong process of building assets such as land, enterprises, homes and savings. But half of the world's people live on less than $2 a day, and while global economic change has produced gains for many it has produced job loss and uncertainty for others.

Our work in this field seeks to help low-income people generate sustainable incomes, save and plan for the future, and protect themselves against unforeseen economic setbacks. We support a wide range of initiatives aimed at enabling people to exert more control over their future and participate in economic life in meaningful ways. A range of public policies and market inducements can encourage people to save over a lifetime, reducing their economic vulnerability and helping to build their financial resilience. We support organizations that help people gain access to basic financial services (such as loans, savings accounts and insurance), improve the functioning of housing markets, promote the development of small enterprises that benefit low-income people and encourage people to save. We support a wide range of initiatives aimed at enabling people to exert more control over their future and participate in economic life.

Key Strategies
Our strategic approaches include:

• A Supporting research and policy analysis to develop and preserve public policies that encourage people to save
• Expanding efforts to preserve the value of homeownership for low-income people
• Encouraging financial institutions to provide fairly priced consumer financial products for low-income people
• Increasing the access of poor rural households in developing countries to a range of financial products and business development services
• Improving economic opportunities and livelihoods for residents of rural areas in the United States
• Building knowledge and best practices in the field of development finance.

Immigrant
African Immigrant Presentation
African Immigrant Capital

Survey
African Corporate Survey