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Global Fund for Children announces new Board member

Global Fund for Children announces new Board member

Kelly Pettit is the Managing Director, Chief Compliance Officer, and Associate General Counsel at General Atlantic. Based in New York, she leads the firm’s investment funds practice, oversees its global regulatory compliance program, and supports general corporate matters as part of the Legal & Compliance team. She also oversees General Atlantic’s privacy program and previously served on the firm’s IDEA Council.

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Global Fund for Children announces new Board member

Global Fund for Children announces new Board member

Kelly Pettit is the Managing Director, Chief Compliance Officer, and Associate General Counsel at General Atlantic. Based in New York, she leads the firm’s investment funds practice, oversees its global regulatory compliance program, and supports general corporate matters as part of the Legal & Compliance team. She also oversees General Atlantic’s privacy program and previously served on the firm’s IDEA Council.


Brazil Hosts COP30 Whilst its Climate Activists Watch from Outside: Frontline Youth Expose How Philanthropy Blocks Grassroots Solutions

Brazil Hosts COP30 Whilst its Climate Activists Watch from Outside: Frontline Youth Expose How Philanthropy Blocks Grassroots Solutions

As Brazil prepares to host COP30, Global Fund for Children exposes a stark contradiction: Whilst young Brazilians from Indigenous, quilombola and peripheral territories are building climate solutions in their communities every day, colonial funding structures systematically exclude them from the resources and decision-making spaces needed to scale their work. COP30 exemplifies this crisis — the young people most affected by climate change face innumerous barriers to participate in the summit meant to address it, from high travel costs to the bureaucracy required to access the official conference space.


Our Commitment to Community-led Trust-based Philanthropy to Stand With Children

Our Commitment to Community-led Trust-based Philanthropy to Stand With Children

At Global Fund for Children (GFC), we are guided by a deep belief in shifting power for community-led change. In a time of growing crisis and complexity, we know that philanthropy must rise to meet the moment.


Global Fund for Children’s 2023-2024 Annual Report

Global Fund for Children’s 2023-2024 Annual Report

Over the last three decades, GFC has supported more than 1,300 community-based partners and reached over 11 million children. As we celebrated our 30th anniversary last year, we reflected on our journey and reaffirmed our commitment to building a better future for children by continuing to support community organizations that are courageously shifting norms, policies, and practices in an increasingly challenging global landscape.


The Iris Project Announces Transition to Global Fund for Children

The Iris Project Announces Transition to Global Fund for Children

The Iris Project, a global organisation dedicated to highlighting and supporting the transformative impact of youth-led initiatives in protecting and restoring nature, is excited to announce its transition of fiscal hosting from Global Greengrants Fund to Global Fund for Children (GFC) in February 2025. This strategic move reflects The Iris Project’s continued growth and commitment to innovative, trust-based grantmaking that amplifies the impact youth-led environmental projects are having worldwide.


Boris Kodjoe becomes GFC Global Ambassador

Boris Kodjoe, actor and philanthropist, becomes GFC Global Ambassador

Boris joins other GFC Global ambassadors who are championing GFC and its work to empower young people around the world.


This Giving Tuesday buy a tee that gives back

This Giving Tuesday buy a tee that gives back

This year Global Fund for Children has collaborated with Tea Collection for a special campaign starting today on #GivingTuesday. Tea Collection is selling an exclusive, while-supplies-last graphic t-shirt with all proceeds going to Mavi Kalem, one of GFC’s community-based partners in Turkey.


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