Strategic Partnerships

Charlesbridge

Global Fund for Children books are produced by a unique social-enterprise venture between GFC, a nonprofit organization, and Charlesbridge Publishing, a for-profit children’s book publisher that specializes in multicultural and educational materials for children. GFC provides creative content and pursues niche-marketing for our books while Charlesbridge handles the editing, production, marketing, and distribution.

This innovative alliance gives GFC the creative freedom to develop new books and reach an ever-expanding audience of children, brings these books credibility and high production values, and ensures that each book will remain true to GFC's mission. This partnership also allows GFC to apply a portion of the proceeds it receives from the sale of books to the support of community-based groups around the world. When the partnership began in 1997, it represented, to our knowledge, the first such nonprofit/for-profit alliance in the publishing industry.

Check out GFC’s children’s books

International Center of Photography

The Global Fund for Children and the International Center of Photography (ICP) jointly administer a fellowship program that sends promising photographers to developing countries to capture positive images of children. GFC’s vision of a world where children grow up to be productive, caring citizens of a global society complements ICP’s emphasis on photography's role in promoting social justice. Through this program, GFC seeks to use the power of photography to highlight the hope and opportunity cultivated by its grantee partners in the vulnerable children they serve. ICP seeks to inspire select students and teachers to practice documentary photography by giving them the opportunity to travel to GFC's grantee partners around the world.

Read biographies of GFC/ICP fellows

Tea Collection

The Global Fund for Children is pleased to announce its partnership with Tea Collection, a high-end children’s clothing line. Based on our shared mission to serve the children of the world, Tea is offering a special collection of items exclusively to benefit the Global Fund for Children. Bodysuits and T-shirts with “for little citizens of the world” printed on them are offered in three colors and are available in infant and toddler sizes. One hundred percent of the proceeds from this collection will be donated to GFC.

Learn more about the Tea Collection partnership

Youth Philanthropy Worldwide

On behalf of our younger supporters, the Global Fund for Children partners with Youth Philanthropy Worldwide (YPW). YPW’s mission is to inspire young people in the United States to contribute to the global community. YPW creates trainings, fellowships, events, and large school presentations to inspire and mobilize young people for a lifelong commitment to global change. Through these programs, YPW empowers young people to leverage their collective influence to support grassroots initiatives around the world through partners such as GFC.

Link to GFC’s Young Philanthropists