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North America

With our office located in the nation’s capital, we feel an obligation and commitment to strategically support vulnerable children in the United States, particularly in the Washington, DC, area. We currently invest in 7 grantee partners in this country. To date, we have awarded 148 grants totaling $879,495 to 32 organizations in the US.

Synapses Ablaze at GEO 2012

  • By: Victoria Dunning on March 16th, 2012
  • Category: Blog
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Wow! After Day 2 at the GEO conference my mind is abuzz! The wonderful thing about this conference is hearing from the greatest thought leaders in the business of philanthropy, social media, capacity-building, and non-profit effectiveness.

Learning in Public: To What End?

  • By: Victoria Dunning on March 14th, 2012
  • Category: Blog
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[Editor's Note: This piece also appears as a guest blog on Beth Kantor's site, which is one of the premier outlets for discussing how nonprofits can harness social media to affect meaningful results.]   Learning in Public.  Sounds pretty awesome, right?  It involves creating a forum where wide and varied stakeholders can share and learn [...]

Glee: DC Teen Edition

  • By: Victoria Dunning on February 13th, 2012
  • Category: Blog

Washington, DC–The hit show Glee depicts life in a high school where kids find both themselves and acceptance as part of a singing club. Each character is dealing with difference—sometimes socially awkward or less popular, perhaps a nonconformist, or just plain nerdy. These musical kids express themselves by performing lively covers of Madonna, Lady Gaga, [...]

Finding Hope in Unlikely Places

  • By: Sarah Modica on October 18th, 2011
  • Category: Blog
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Washington, DC – On Friday, August 19, I spent the day in prison. Of course, I was lucky—unlike most people at the Federal Correctional Institution in Cumberland, MD, I was only there for the day, to visit the Father-to-Child Summer Camp run by GFC grantee partner Hope House. The main goals of Hope House are [...]

And the Award Goes To…

  • By: Cynthia Pon on August 12th, 2011
  • Category: Blog

Washington, DC – Faith, a Global Fund for Children book, has been selected as the 2011 Rodda Book Award winner by the Church and Synagogue Library Association (CSLA). The award recognizes one children’s book every three years that “exhibits excellence in writing and has contributed significantly to congregational libraries through promotion of spiritual growth.” Written [...]

Being Different

  • By: Manjula Padmanabhan on July 27th, 2011
  • Category: Blog

By Manjula Padmanabhan, author and illustrator of I Am Different Newport, Rhode Island – I Am Different started out as variations on the theme of non-conformism. I grew up away from my ethnic homeland (India), and perhaps for that reason I was always conscious, as a child, of being “different.” Sometimes it was an asset [...]

Need a Summer Reading List? Working on Lesson Plans? Check Out Our New Diversity Resource Guide

  • By: Cynthia Pon on May 26th, 2011
  • Category: Blog

Washington, D.C. – Summer break is fast approaching, and many parents are planning activities and choosing books for their kids, while teachers are starting their lesson plans for the next school year. With that in mind, we just released a free new guide to high-quality websites and books that foster diversity learning in children. This [...]

Diane von Furstenberg Awards Given to Leaders of Two GFC Grantee Partners

  • By: Laurel Fiorelli on March 28th, 2011
  • Category: Blog

Washington, DC – On March 11, two friends of The Global Fund for Children (GFC) were honored with the DVF Award, a $50,000 prize that recognizes outstanding women leaders who are improving the lives of women around the world. Sohini Chakraborty of Kolkata Sanved and Kakenya Ntaiya of the Kakenya Center for Excellence were two [...]

In The Picture Book Kitchen

  • By: Cynthia Pon on November 17th, 2010
  • Category: Blog

Submitted by Maya Ajmera and Cynthia Pon Washington, DC – Many have weighed in on the recent New York Times article “Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children” (October 8, 2010), some responding with nostalgia, others with indignation, yet others with refutation, and some with open-eyed optimism. Judging from the wide spectrum of responses, [...]

Youth Using Cutting-Edge Technology as Vehicle to Share Their Voices

  • By: Monica Grover on October 21st, 2010
  • Category: Adobe Youth Voices

Washington, DC – GFC recently partnered with the Adobe Foundation to participate in Adobe Youth Voices (AYV), a program that empowers young people to share their voices and express their understanding of the world through the use of new media technology. We selected 15 of our current grantee partners in Eastern Europe, East and Southeast [...]

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