The Collaboration for Communications and IT Advancement
Vision
A Program of the African Bicycle Contribution Foundation
A 501(c) U.S. and Ghananian Non-profit Organization
ABCF History
The African Bicycle Contribution Foundation (ABCF) launched its program of distributing free Ghanaian-made bamboo bicycles to under-resourced Ghanaian rural students, small farmers, and healthcare workers, in September 2016. The distribution of those first 30 bikes, in Accra and Kumasi, was just the first step in the African-American-established NGO’s long-term plan for providing support to young people across Ghana.
In July 2019, the Foundation distributed an additional 85 bikes, for a total of 500, over the three-year period, to rural students and teachers from the Ningo-PramPram School District, at an event at the Achimota Golf Club, in Accra.
ABCF was supported at its 500th Bicycle Distribution event, in Accra, in July 2019, by the Hon. Elizabeth K.T. Sackey, deputy regional minister, Ghana's Greater Accra Region, and Carl Nelson, chief operating officer, Ghana Investment and Promotion Centre
As successful as the bicycle distribution program has been, since inception, in providing much-needed mobility to the under-resourced, in 12 locations in northern, central and southern Ghana, the Foundation's leaders have decided that it is well past time to move ahead to the second component of the vision statement ABCF had announced in the fall of 2016.
At the time, the Foundation made a commitment to "Improving Critical Access, Inter-Continental Communications and Trade Opportunities," in Ghana, and to "enhancing communication and understanding between and among the people of Africa, those in the United States, and other nations."
In addition, "ABCF also envision(ed) that its operations and the networks available through its world-class board members, would (eventually) lead to trade opportunities that (would) be mutually beneficial, in the areas of business and job creation, for Ghanaians and people in the U.S."
In 2016, the Foundation also (planned) to raise funds to "initiate educational-focused, technology-facilitated dialogues for students and business owners, between Ghanaian and U.S. residents."
Board & Staff
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Board Chair
A. Bruce Crawley
President, Millennium 3 Management
Philadelphia, PA
Board Vice Chair
Dr. Samuel F. Quartey, Retired
Podiatrist, Foot & Ankle Surgeon
Accra and Philadelphia
Board Members
Kingsley Bennett, CEO
Metro Edge Technologies
Accra, Ghana
Christopher B. Crawley, Technology Recruiter
San Jose, CA
Joseph DiAngelo, Ed.D., Dean
Erivan K. Haub School of Business
St. Joseph’s University
Philadelphia, PA
Fred Dickson, EVP & CIO
AmeriHealth Caritas
Philadelphia, PA
Hon. Abla Dzifa Gomashie, CEO
Values for Life
Accra, Ghana
Dr. Victor B. Lawrence, Director
Center for Intelligent Networked Systems (iNetS)
Stephens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, NJ
Tod MacKenzie, Retired
Communications Management Executive
Philadelphia, PA
Abdul Manan
Marketing Consultant
Philadelphia, PA
Cynthia R. Miller, President
CRM Agency LLC
Atlanta, GA
Dr. Nii Odartei Mills, President
Santa Institute of Technology
Accra, Ghana
Manish Nambiar, General Manager
Kempinski Gold Coast City Hotel
Accra, Ghana
Hon. Dr. Mark K. Nawaane, Member of Parliament
Private Medical Practitioner, Philanthropist
Accra, Ghana
Colin Anthony Romero, M.D.
Seattle, WA
Board Special Advisors
Hon. Karen Smith Woodson, Retired
Magistrate Judge, Superior Court
Fulton County, GA
Hon. Elizabeth K.T. Sackey, Mayor of Accra
Former Deputy Minister, Greater Accra Region
Accra, Ghana
Executive Director/Treasurer
Patricia Marshall Harris
Staff
Ethel E. Waters
Administrator — Philadelphia Office
Gladys S. Azure
Marketing Consultant
Administrator — Accra Office
Philip N.A. Sackey, CEO
PCS Company Ltd.
Deputy Administrator — Accra Office
A. Bruce Crawley
Joseph DiAngelo
Tod MacKenzie
Manish Nambiar
Elizabeth K.T. Sackey
Ethel E. Waters
Dr. Samuel F. Quartey
Kingsley Bennett
Christopher B. Crawley
Fred Dickson
Abla Dzifa Gomashie
Dr. Victor B. Lawrence
Abdul Manan
Cynthia R. Miller
Dr. Nii Odartei Mills
Dr. Mark K. Nawaane
Colin Anthony Romero
Karen Smith Woodson
Patricia Marshall Harris
Gladys S. Azure
Philip N.A. Sackey