Since 1991, the Sullivan Summit’s Bridge-Building has resulted in more than 18,000 delegates, including thousands of African American and African leaders and Friends of Africa coming together on the continent to network, do business, exchange ideas, strengthen the Diaspora linkages and insure that Africa remains in the international spotlight.   

The Teachers for Africa Program has sent more than 800 U.S. educators and master teachers to serve in Africa on one-year sabbaticals in universities, ministries and non-government organizations helping in teaching, updating curriculums and research activities. At the Abuja Summit VI, President George Bush pledged $5,000,000 for the Teachers for Africa Program, which is organized by IFESH.

The Physicians for Africa Program, under a joint agreement with the Arizona based MedHelp Foundation, organized an international team of 50 board-certified physicians, nurses, therapists, pharmacists and technicians provided 88 open heart surgeries, 57 cardiology procedures, 43 adult general surgeries, 47 pediatric general surgeries, 40 orthopedic  procedures, 22 gynecological surgeries and many more heart-related services, including Senegal’s first open heart, laparoscopic, and total hip replacement procedures. Left behind were a trained team of physicians and donated medical supplies.

The Debt for Development Program resulted in the conversion of promissory notes to local currency in Nigeria, Niger and Guinea. As a result of the conversion of funds, almost $6 million was provided to grass-roots organizations and their beneficiaries over a seven-year period.

The Supporters of Sub-Saharan Africa Campaign (S.O.S.) collected and distributed more than $30 million worth of books, educational and relief supplies, and furniture for the children of Sub-Saharan Africa, including Benin, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa and Uganda. Supplies have been donated by churches, individuals, sororities and publishing houses and have been transported with the assistance of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the U.S. Department of Defense and the United States Agency for International Development.

The Educational and Training HIV/AIDS Prevention Training Program in Nigeria’s Delta region resulted from the Ghana Sullivan Summit V. This grant of $5 million dollars over a five-year period was provided by ChevronTexaco.

The Schools for Africa Program has habilitated and constructed more than 170 rural schools in Southern Africa and Liberia.

The Best & Brightest Bankers Program, designed to help strengthen financial systems in participating countries, trained more than 400 middle-management bankers in the five-week African Bankers Training Program in New York, Washington and Philadelphia.

The National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO), the umbrella organization of America’s historically black colleges and universities, and the Leon H. Sullivan Foundation agree in principle to continue to bring together universities from America and Africa in a range of Summit and post-Summit collaborative activities.

The Summit Books Initiative, under an agreement between the Sullivan Foundation and the Minnesota-based Books for Africa, Inc, has resulted in four sea-containers holding more than 160,000 up-to-date text-books valued at $4,000,000 shipped or in the pipeline to schools in Nigeria.