The Global Fund For Children

Funding to date: $73,695 beginning in 2007 WBL aims to transform communities through hip-hop culture and provides job training and enterprise support to prepare youth for employment. Our grant supports WBL’s DC Urban Arts Academy, which offers arts-based educational activities such as break dancing and DJing, as well as field trips and discussion groups, for [...]

Funding to date: $32,000 beginning in 2007 Yayasan Anak Akar (formerly Sanggar Anak Akar) teaches children to respect one another and strives to create a safe space to ensure the physical and emotional well-being of marginalized children, specifically those living in slums, near garbage dumps, and on the streets. Our grant supports Yayasan Anak Akar’s [...]

Funding to date: $13,000 beginning in 2009 VAST works throughout Bhutan to bring art to vulnerable children and youth, including school dropouts and delinquents, by providing opportunities to learn basic drawing, sketching, oil painting, photography, and graphic design, as well as traditional Bhutanese art. Our grant supports the Youth Artist Program, an outdoor program where [...]

Funding to date: $30,700 beginning in 2008 Through the rigorous study and performance of choral music, Washington Youth Choir enhances the educational experience of at-risk DC youth. Our grant provides general support to the organization. View Website

Funding to date: $11,000 in 2011 Rewrite provides a platform for young people of different cultural and social backgrounds to express their ideas and opinions creatively, breaks down barriers of prejudice and racism through drama and creative writing, and raises public awareness about issues surrounding refugees and asylum seekers. Our grant supports the REACT program, [...]

Funding to date: $38,000 beginning in 2007 RHRAP promotes ethnic tolerance, human rights, and democracy in Liberia through advocacy and through peace education programs. Our grant supports the peace education program for children, which is implemented in a community where ethnic tensions are prevalent and teaches participants about human rights, diversity, and tolerance to help [...]

Funding to date: $6,000 in 2011 Studio Xang offers weekly art classes, unstructured playtime in mobile playrooms, art and entrepreneurship summer camps, and art exhibitions that display the artwork of migrant Burmese children and youth now living in northern Thailand. Our grant supports the weekly art program for migrant children in refugee camps and migrant-rich [...]

Funding to date: $36,500 beginning in 2008 Caixa de Surpresas works to reduce the vulnerability of children and youth living in the Bangú section of Rio de Janerio by engaging them in the arts, especially the performing arts and Afro-Brazilian musical productions. Our grant supports the Constructing Citizenship through Creative Arts program, which provides young [...]

Funding to date: $14,850 beginning in 2010 Li, Li, Li! is a community-based organization in Haiti whose mission is to read storybooks out loud in Creole to children who were displaced by the January 2010 earthquake and who are now living in transitional settings. Our grant supports the reading program, through which trained readers hold [...]

Funding to date: $6,000 in 2011 Future Stars Academy uses soccer as a tool to inspire and motivate children from resource-poor households to overcome poverty and become model citizens by combining professional-level soccer training with life skills training. Our grant supports the Academy soccer program, which focuses on technical and tactical training, teamwork and social [...]