SADF seeks to utilize capacity building and grants to support grassroots activism and social and racial justice movements aimed at providing services and resources to communities disadvantaged by a history of racial and social injustice. After the democratic elections in 1994, U.S. interest in South Africa began to dwindle. South Africa may have been finally free, but the residual impact of apartheid and the alarming spread of the nation’s AIDS pandemic made the need for donor support even greater. Today, SADF solicits funds from individuals and donor organizations and works in partnership with community-based organizations to provide financial and technical support to communities still disadvantaged by decades of racial and social injustice. SADF supports community-based organizations committed to non-sexist, non-racial, democratic practices which address human rights through health, education, economic development, environmental justice, and democracy-building.