Our Impact

What’s the Impact of Princeton in Africa?

Princeton in Africa staff and board members have been working together to find the best answer to this complicated question.

We believe that by fostering productive work-based fellowships for recent graduates from colleges and universities accredited in the U.S., we will develop a broad network of individuals who:

We are developing improved ways of measuring these and other outcomes.  The information collected will help us improve our fellowship program and be more accountable to the supporters and friends of PiAf.

In order to become a more evidence-based organization, PiAf has increased the level of data collected on current Fellows, supervisors and alumni, through biennial alumni surveys conducted since 2011 and annual Fellowship Organization/Supervisor Surveys and End of Fellowship Surveys conducted since 2012. A big thank you to all of the alumni and organizations who took the time and effort to respond to these surveys.

For our most recent Alumni Survey and Fellowship Organization/Supervisor Survey, we received responses from more than 90 alumni (from Fellows in 2000-01 all the way up to our 2014-15 Fellows) and more than 30 supervisors from 27 of our 2014-15 fellowship organizations. Here are some highlights:

Fellowship Organization/Supervisor Survey 2015

Alumni Survey 2015

Princeton in Africa has also surveyed Fellows at the end of their fellowship year since 2012. Of the 2014-15 fellowship class: