Invest in Young African Leaders Transforming Their Communities
Across Africa, communities have ideas for their future, and young people are driven to make a difference. CorpsAfrica brings them together, training young African Volunteers to work alongside rural communities to turn local priorities into community-led projects.
Your gift today invests in African youth and builds local capacity for future generations.
Your Gift Puts Local Ideas Into Action
Across 11 African countries, CorpsAfrica provides the training, resources, and ongoing investment that make community-led development possible.
Your donation supports hands-on Volunteer training in Human-Centered Design and Asset-Based Community Development, funds community-designed projects, and supports ongoing training and professional development for CorpsAfrica Alumni. These investments equip young leaders with practical skills, give communities resources to carry out their ideas, and build a network of African leaders who carry this approach into their careers and communities.
Give today to fund Volunteer training, community-led projects, and the next generation of African leaders.
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More ways to give
Contributions at every level, from monthly gifts to major investments, support Volunteers and help communities implement locally led projects.
Make a Gift from a Donor-Advised Fund (DAF)
Donate Stocks & Crypto
Give from your IRA
Where Your Gift Makes an Impact
Every CorpsAfrica Volunteer immerses themselves in the community they serve, prioritizing active listening, fostering trust, and collaborating with local leaders to transform ideas into actionable plans. Your support makes this work possible. It finances projects identified by the community, provides African youth with essential tools for leadership, and guarantees that solutions are locally driven and sustainable.
By investing in CorpsAfrica, you are making a sustainable contribution to communities and fostering enduring leadership across Africa.
Partner with CorpsAfrica
CorpsAfrica collaborates with Program Partners who are committed to fostering community-driven change, empowering African youth, and ensuring sustainable impact.
Learn more about how partnerships play a vital role in enhancing program quality, offering technical expertise, mobilizing resources, and creating pathways for youth employment and entrepreneurship.
Giving in Action
Consider a planned gift
Achieving ambitious, continent-wide change requires support for today as well as tomorrow. Including a gift in your estate plan empowers local youth to lead sustainable development and help rural communities thrive for years to come.
You’re always welcome to remain publicly anonymous, but we hope you’ll share your gift intention with us so we can thank you and ensure your wishes are honored.
Choose the option that best reflects your values and goals
A bequest in your will or trust, which can be given as a dollar figure, percentage of the estate, or residual amount following the distribution of gifts to heirs and other organizations.
A beneficiary designation on a retirement asset (401k, 403b, IRA, etc.) or other financial account (brokerage, checking, savings, etc.), which can be arranged by simply filling out a form with your financial institution and withdrawn at any time.
A donation of appreciated stock, which may allow you to avoid a capital gains effect on your taxes.
A direct transfer from an IRA for donors 70½ or older; this gift counts toward your required minimum distribution and may help lower your federal and state income taxes.
A gift of a life insurance policy, which can include irrevocably donating a policy or simply listing CorpsAfrica as a beneficiary on a policy that you continue to own, providing a revocable alternative.
A gift of assets like real estate, artwork, or jewelry, for which we will need the donor’s assistance in terms of getting appropriate appraisals.
MEET OUR FIRST PLANNED GIVING DONOR
In December 2020, longtime donor Ursula Schoeni made CorpsAfrica the beneficiary of her annuity, our first known planned gift. We’re deeply grateful! Ursula shared her experience and encouraged others to support CorpsAfrica in the same way.
How did you learn about CorpsAfrica?
Liz approached me in Rabat. She was looking to relocate CorpsAfrica’s temporary headquarters from Casablanca to Rabat. She heard that I was looking for a new tenant for the ground floor apartment that I owned in the Rabat Medina, and I ended up donating the space to create the first headquarters for the CorpsAfrica Alumni Association.
WHY DID YOU CHOOSE TO SUPPORT CORPSAFRICA WITH A PLANNED GIFT?
I have known Liz and her inspiring work for more than five years now and decided that I could best contribute to CorpsAfrica’s future by planning a gift.
WHAT ADVICE DO YOU HAVE FOR THE CORPSAFRICA VOLUNTEERS?
To the Volunteers: Kudos to all of you. Be steadfast. The year you are spending to help your fellow countrymen, solving problems and finding solutions is going to mark you for life. It is going to give you much more than you ever imagined. I, and many people like me, are following your great work and rooting you on. Thank you.
A planned gift is a lasting investment in young leaders and the communities they serve.
For your attorney or financial advisor:
Legal Name: CorpsAfrica
Address:
1527 New Hampshire Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036
Federal Tax ID (EIN): 45-2470692
Organization Type: 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
Sample Bequest Language:
“I give and bequeath to CorpsAfrica, 1527 New Hampshire Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036 [the sum of $______] or [ ___ % of the rest, residue and remainder of my estate], to be used for its general charitable purposes.”
About CorpsAfrica
CorpsAfrica is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (EIN: 45-2470692) that recruits and trains college-educated Africans to serve as Volunteers in rural or underserved communities for one year.
Volunteers live and work within these communities, partnering with residents to design and carry out community-led projects that address their most pressing needs.
Founded in 2011 by Liz Fanning, a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, CorpsAfrica now operates in 11 African countries: Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, The Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Morocco, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, and Uganda.
