The Global Fund For Children

New York, NY – On a crisp fall afternoon, overlooking the flags of many nations flapping in the wind, children’s book creators, children, and educators gathered in a cozy room at the United Nations Plaza to celebrate. It was October 15, 2010, the 150th birthday of Jane Addams and the occasion of the 2010 Jane [...]

Washington, DC – Last week, I attended the 2010 Annual Leadership Luncheon of the Washington Area Women’s Foundation (WAWF) with a few of my colleagues from GFC. WAWF supports grantee partners that serve impoverished girls and women in Washington, DC, and the purpose of the luncheon was to honor these grantee partners. Maya Ajmera, the [...]

Washington, DC – “When the rest of the children were learning how to read and write, I was learning how to fight,” raps Emmanuel Jal in the award-winning documentary War Child, talking about his life as a child soldier. Jal visited our office last week and left us profoundly affected by the wisdom in his [...]

New York, New York – Recently, I had the opportunity to attend the UN Week Digital Media Lounge in New York City, where leaders of the NGO community, bloggers, and digital media gurus came together to discuss new and cutting-edge approaches to fulfillment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the United Nation’s endeavor to improve [...]

New York, New York – Last week, during the UN Week Digital Media Lounge session “Reel Impact: The Power of Film to Change Lives,” Caroline Barron, founder of FilmAid International, and Lisa Russell, filmmaker and cofounder of www.MDGfive.com discussed digital media and the effect of film on communities, from a nontraditional and critical development perspective. [...]

GFC Donates Books to Homeless Children across America Washington, DC – I’m not ashamed to admit it—at my first sleepover as a little kid, I got scared and my mom had to pick me up in the middle of the night. In a strange new house, without my bedtime routine, I just couldn’t seem to [...]

Washington, DC – Nasreen’s Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan, written and illustrated by Jeanette Winter, has caught the imagination of many readers. Children and adults alike are inspired by the story of a young girl and her community who braved forbidding social forces that decreed that girls could not go to school. This [...]

Washington, DC – Last month, we celebrated our most recent book, Our Grandparents: A Global Album, by hosting an online contest challenging Facebook fans to tell their stories about their grandparents. We received entries from people all over the world! Contestants told us about grandfathers who stayed in Europe to help smuggle Jews into Israel [...]

Washington, DC – A look at the new Focus Features film, disarmingly titled…Babies Last week, I struggled to find a row of seats in a crowded movie theater in Washington, DC. A free film screening hosted by Global Action for Children was the hook, and I always enjoy a good free movie. To my left [...]

Washington, DC – In this second and final blog posting before I fly home this evening to Peru, I take a look at how my research has progressed on GFC’s organizational development (OD) work with its grantee partners around the world. Here are a few facts we have put together about GFC’s OD awards: An [...]