The Global Fund For Children

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Thanks for visiting The Global Fund for Children’s new website. We hope you’ll spend some time looking around, because we’ve got a lot to share with you. Our new site is all about showing our work—you’ll learn how grassroots grantmaking works, meet the community-based organizations we partner with, and hear stories about their challenges and [...]

Join us for our Spring Gala in New York City on May 10, 2012 at Guastavino’s. Meet our courageous grantee partners who are bringing providing the world’s most vulnerable children the support and tools they need to make a difference and become healthy, productive citizens.

Our model gets small amounts of money into the hands of innovative community leaders working with the world’s most vulnerable children and youth.

CEO CORNER Children Should Be Seen and Heard Dear Friends, Wherever you may be as you read this, it is probably not in a village in Serbia, or on the plains of Tanzania, or in a refugee settlement in Lebanon. These places can be hard to imagine, but this is where our work happens—in parts [...]

Welcome to the World The Huffington Post by Kristin Lindsey 12/6/2011 No milestone from this past year sticks out more than the news of the world’s population crossing the seven billion mark. Demographers estimate we will hit eight billion sometime in the next twelve years. No one can say exactly when or where we will [...]

Our 2010–2011 Annual Report and Resource Guide is a portrait of our work with grassroots organizations serving some of the world’s most vulnerable children and youth. Read in-depth coverage of our long-term recovery-and-renewal efforts in post-earthquake Haiti. Learn about “invisible children”—millions of children who live virtually unseen by society—and how grassroots organizations are providing them [...]

Around the world, millions of children are virtually invisible to society—they are absent from national statistics, policies, and programs. Learn about invisible children and what we do to get them the services they need.

In the height of monsoon season in northern Bangladesh, a young girl runs to the riverbank near her village. Her regular school building is closed due to floodwaters, but a different kind of classroom awaits her—one that floats.

“A boat school is the combination of a school bus and schoolhouse,” says Mohammed Rezwan, executive director of Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha and the social entrepreneur behind its mobile boat schools.