Commonwealth Club Podcast: Interview with Liz Fanning and Hiba Tazi
CorpsAfrica founder, Liz Fanning, and former Volunteer, Hiba Tazi, present the model to members of the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. Young Africans are living faraway regions…
2015 Reception at the Dacor Bacon House
December 2015: CorpsAfrica hosted a beautiful reception at the Dacor Bacon House. Our wonderful featured speakers included Ambassador Rachad Bouhlal, Ambassador Necton Mhura, and Ambassador Babacar Diagne. We were also happy to host our country directors Mamadou Sarr from Senegal and Adam Gaskins from Malawi. Thank you to everyone who attended.
UNV Arab Youth Volunteering Award: CorpsAfrica Volunteer Hiba Tazi
UN Volunteers Arab Youth Volunteering Award featuring CorpsAfrica Volunteer Hiba Tazi. November 2015. (03:41)
Peace Corps Family Album: Interview with Liz Fanning about CorpsAfrica’s Founding
Ernie Zaremba interviews Liz Fanning about the founding of CorpsAfrica as part of his Peace Corps Family Album project. July 2015. (1:19)
Huffington Post: CorpsAfrica in Morocco and Beyond
Written by Maïa Venturini “When I first met CorpsAfrica founder Liz Fanning in Casablanca last fall, CorpsAfrica struck me as an effective model to invest in Moroccan youth capacity-building through development volunteer service. Now, the NGO is expanding to other African countries: Senegal and Malawi. CorpsAfrica is one of the few NGOs training youth in […]
Morocco On The Move: CorpsAfrica Grows from Morocco to Senegal to Malawi
Written by Jean R. AbiNader “In an interesting parallel to Morocco’s growing presence in Africa promoted by King Mohammed VI, CorpsAfrica is growing as well, expanding into Malawi and Senegal later this year. Former Peace Corps Volunteer Liz Fanning founded CorpsAfrica in 2011 to give Africans the opportunity to serve in their own countries and […]
Morocco On The Move: A Grassroots and Transnational Model for Development
Written by Jean AbiNader “As the debate continues about how to make development programs more impactful and inclusive, a new narrative on community development is being written in Morocco, borrowing from US Peace Corps and AmeriCorps models. It is called CorpsAfrica and is based on the assumption that Africans are quite able to undertake grassroots […]
Liz Fanning Speaks at NPCA Great Ideas Forum
YouTube video produced by Frank Yates CorpsAfrica’s Founder and CEO, Liz Fanning, presented the idea of CorpsAfrica to at the Great Ideas Forum hosted by the National Peace Corps Association in Nashville, Tennessee on June 21, 2014.
Kenya’s Pitch Day 2024
The Pitch Day (PD) event, which took place on May 2nd, 2024, was a huge success despite the country experiencing floods from the heavy rains. The event brought together 24 guests from various sectors, including public and private entities as well as our Development Partners. The primary goal was to unite stakeholders to embrace local […]
Entrepreneurship and Incubator program
In February 2023, CorpsAfrica launched an exciting new initiative: the Entrepreneurship and Incubator program. Designed to fuel the entrepreneurial spirit of its alumni, this program aims to kickstart or grow ventures, creating jobs and boosting economic growth across Africa. Lasting three months, the program is a crash course in business success, co-facilitated with ES Maroc, […]