About Us

For the past one hundred years the Federation of Alliances Françaises USA has had as its mission to provide support for its individual member chapters in their efforts to promote French language and francophone culture. Today as yesterday, the primary focus of the AFs is on the improvement of cross-cultural understanding and the strengthening of intercultural communication.

Like all Alliance Française chapters in this country, the Federation is an entirely independent American organization. Its activities are the product of the initiative of its members as communicated to its Board of Directors, its working Committees and participating members around the country. Its financial well-being is dependent almost entirely on the dues of member chapters, with some limited outside sponsorship and fund-raising activities.

An important role of the Federation is to facilitate communication among its membership by publishing a newsletter (Federation Forum) and a magazine (Le Magazine), as well as maintaining an up-to-date web site. The Federation also encourages its member chapters to publicize their activities by offering Web Site Services, which include a basic web template and hosting chapter web sites at no cost.

In many of its activities, the Federation works in cooperation with the Alliance Française de Paris and with the Délégation générale de l'Alliance Française in Washington.