Aid for Africa supports its member charities in a number of ways. It:

• facilitates participation in workplace, internet, and other public giving programs
• develops public awareness and educational campaigns on African issues
• serves as a forum for discussion among charities with varied programs in order
  to promote common goals
• shares programmatic results for mutual assistance in planning future projects, and
• develops partnerships to pursue federal, foundation, and other funding.

Aid for Africa has a number of eligibility requirements.

Workplace Giving
Workplace-giving campaigns are sponsored by employers who wish to facilitate charitable giving among their employees. During these campaigns, employees are provided with a list of charities to which they may contribute through payroll deductions or a one-time gift. Workplace-giving programs exist at the municipal, state, and federal levels of government and within private companies.

For more than four decades, the U.S. government has sponsored the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC)—the world’s largest workplace-giving fundraising drive. In the last quarter of every calendar year, CFC invites civilian, military, and postal employees to support eligible national and local charities. In 2005, some 1.3 million federal workers chose to pledge to those charities an amount totaling more than a quarter of a billion dollars.

Facilitating participation in the CFC is a priority for Aid for Africa. As part of its service to members, Aid for Africa works with eligible charities to ensure that they meet the CFC’s fiscal accountability, governance, and programmatic impact standards. These standards are some of the most rigorous in the giving community and thus provide the basis for admission to the federation.

Federal employees choose the charities they wish to support from a list of charities that have submitted applications and been deemed qualified by CFC staff. Employees may give once or request that a specific amount be withheld from their paychecks throughout the following year. The overwhelming majority of employees elect the ongoing payroll deduction program. The CFC’s combination of donor control and payroll deduction leads to high levels of enthusiastic support. Almost 40 percent of the federal workforce participates in the CFC each year, with the average pledge exceeding $245.

The CFC’s long history, significant success, and special concern for the screening of charities has led other similar campaigns to follow its lead. Administrators of numerous state, municipal, and private-sector campaigns incorporate all or part of the CFC list of charities into their own fundraising drives.

Internet Giving
Aid for Africa facilitates internet donations for its members and raises awareness of their activities through internet outreach.