Leon H. Sullivan Foundation

The Leon H. Sullivan Foundation was established to carry on the missionary work of the late Reverend Leon Howard Sullivan, civil rights pioneer and unflagging campaigner against apartheid.

The mission of the Leon H. Sullivan Foundation is to advocate for the poor and disadvantaged both at home and abroad – with a special focus on Africa. We will champion, promote, and support the principles and goals that Reverend Sullivan courageously and actively advanced: self-help, economic empowerment, human rights and corporate social responsibility. The Foundation will partner with other Sullivan Institutions and with other charitable organizations to achieve these goals and objectives

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Featured Program/Event

Leon H. Sullivan Foundation "Separation and Loss" Forum to be held November 24, 2008

CNN Anchor T.J. Holmes interviewed on NPR on his Summit experience. Click Here

Summit VIII Results and Proceedings are available. Click here .

See our videos on the Sullivan Foundation youtube page. click here

POEM FOR PRESIDENT ELECT BARACK OBAMA
Defuse me as promised
Contend me
Choose me and the transition into HOPE will become a part of our mission
Do not fear what they told you could possibly be a mirror to the impossibleDo not fear when they tell you that you may fail
Remember you MADE today possible
Paving a version of this vision that began
As a new generation and dissipated
Into a witness of perfection ready for
reconciliation
Of the trials and tribulations of a people ready for this moment to come
Find a moment to build YOUR personal campaign to victory
Succeed when your moment comes for you
Focus and recognize the turning point when it happens
Watch them as they analyze your success
Know that they will celebrate you and criticize your journey in the same breath
Trust that you will be the same man you were
When you failed at inspiring the person
You wanted most to inspire
We will soon understand the feeling of that echo
We will define and defend
What it means to lead the life of rising
From the bottom to the top
To cracking a ceiling of glass
To being 5 generations removed from slavery
To being proud once again to declaring yourself an American, an African, a woman
or a man, a Patriot, a part of something greater than anything you ever thought
was worthy of being shouted over a rainbow or a mountain top
Today is the day we learned you became
President of the United States of America
Today we celebrate in the present tense
We believed
But we knew not what the definition of the
ultimate perspective would ever become
But now we know
Now we know that in time
In time you can survive
The hurricanes that will come for you
Now you know that in time
That this change in our lives will leave us
Better than we ever were before