Sustainability Awards

Ethiopia

In 2005, The Global Fund for Children established the GFC Sustainability Awards. These special awards are presented to organizations that not only have succeeded in improving the lives of underserved children but also also achieved a stage in their organizational development where they are able to sustain new levels of financial and program development.

GFC Sustainability Awards honor and recognize recipients’ extraordinary work and seek to draw international attention to organizations that have developed grassroots solutions to global problems. The awards are an integral part of GFC’s grantmaking approach and, in most cases, constitute GFC’s final investment in the work of recipient grantee partners. However, these organizations remain in GFC’s global network as learning partners, receiving tracking grants and benefiting from GFC’s continued assistance in leveraging funds from other sources to enhance their future security.

GFC Sustainability Awards are given to select organizations that:

• Have received GFC funding for a minimum of two years
• Are representative of organizations that GFC strives to support because of their innovations and effectiveness
• Have arrived at a critical stage in their organizational development
• Can demonstrate organizational development in budget growth, program expansion, and/or diversification of funding sources over the course of their relationship with GFC
• Have increased their public profile and their ability to leverage additional funds through prizes or awards, government recognition, and/or increased financial support
• Affect broader issues related to children, education, and/or development through advocacy, training, and/or replication
• Have proved their management capacity to administer this large, strategic grant
• Maintain strong communication links with GFC’s program staff, management, and representatives

Since they were first given in 2005, Sustainability Awards have been awarded to 24 grantee partners of The Global Fund for Children. The winners use the award in a variety of ways: to augment their reserves, to develop their staff, to expand or build their fundraising capacity, or to construct or buy their own building.

2007 Sustainability Award Winners

• Amazon Conservation Team Suriname, Kwamalasamutu, Suriname
• Centro San Juan Bosco, Tela, Honduras
• Foundation for Development of Needy Communities, Mbale, Uganda
• Fundacíon La Paz, La Paz, Bolivia
• Horn Relief, Sanaag, Somalia
• Kampuchean Action for Primary Education, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• Kids in Need of Direction, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
• Prayas, Jaipur, India

2006 Sustainability Award Winners

• Asociación Solas y Unidas, Lima, Peru
• Christ School, Bundibugyo, Uganda
• Conquest for Life, Johannesburg, South Africa
• ProJOVEN, Asunción, Paraguay
• Rural Institute for Development Education, Kanchipuram, India
• Salaam Baalak Trust, New Delhi, India
• Ubuntu Education Fund, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
• Wilderness Foundation, Port Elizabeth, South Africa

2005 Sustainability Award Winners

• Afghan Institute of Learning, Kabul, Afghanistan
• Cambodian Volunteers for Community Development, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• Children's Town, Malambanyama, Zambia
• Life Pieces to Masterpieces, Washington, DC, United States
• Magic Bus, Mumbai, India
• Nishtha, Baruipur, India
• Ruchika Social Service Organisation, Bhubaneswar, India
• Thai Youth Action Programs, Chiang Mai, Thailand