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Press Room
Welcome to the Press Room of The Global Fund for Children. Here you’ll find our press releases, features, newsletters, directory of experts, and other materials that you may find useful. If you are a journalist and you need additional help, please feel free to contact Jerry Irvine at (202) 222-0811.
Contents
- Press Releases
- Media Kits
- GFC Experts
- GFC in the News
- Audio Interviews
- Speeches
- Book Reviews and Awards
- GFC On Air
- Newsletters
- Annual Reports
Press Releases
April 15, 2008
"US Premiere of War Child at Tribeca Film Festival
Film Produced in Association with The Global Fund for Children" [pdf]
April 7, 2008
"The Global Fund for Children’s Maya Ajmera Joins Seventh Annual Global Philanthropy Forum
Human Rights is Focus of Gathering of Donors and Social Investors" [pdf]
April 3, 2008
"The Global Fund for Children Selected for TONIC’s ‘Every T Counts’ Project
Luella Bartley to Create Limited-Edition T-shirt Designs" [pdf]
March 3, 2008
"Exceptional Partners Receive Sustainability Awards" [pdf]
February 21, 2008
"The Global Fund for Children Wins Inaugural MacArthur Competition for Digital Learning" [pdf]
January 18, 2008
"New Book Celebrates the Amazing Diversity of Children in America Today
Children of the U.S.A., A Global Fund for Children Book, Debuts February 1, 2008" [pdf]
December 27, 2007
"Oprah's Grant Boosts Distribution of Children’s Books" [pdf]
November 26, 2007
"GFC Awards Emergency Grants to Partners in Bangladesh" [pdf]
November 8, 2007
"GFC Awards Emergency Grants to Partners in Haiti and Dominican Republic" [pdf]
October 31, 2007
"GFC Grants Over $1.6 Million to 113 Groups in Fall 2007" [pdf]
September 28, 2007
"GFC Launches U-8 Initiative for Early Childhood Development and Education" [pdf]
August 28, 2007
"African Children to Benefit from ELMA Foundation Grant" [pdf]
August 23, 2007
"GFC Awards Emergency Grants to Partners in Bangladesh and Nepal" [pdf]
August 21, 2007
"Peru Partners Get Emergency Grants" [pdf]
June 11, 2007
"GFC Grants More than $1.1 million to Groups in 47 Countries" [pdf]
May 2, 2007
"Photography Exhibit Highlights Children in Peru and Washington, DC" [pdf]
April 2, 2007
"GFC Wins Awards for Communications Excellence" [pdf]
February 21, 2007
"Juliette Gimon Chairs GFC Board of Directors" [pdf]
February 15, 2007
"Outstanding Groups Get Sustainability Awards" [pdf]
January 23, 2007
"GFC Donates 1,115 Children's Books to the United Houma Nation" [pdf]
November 16, 2006
"95 Grassroots Groups in 47 Countries Receive More Than $1.1 Million" [pdf]
November 15, 2006
"Goldman Sachs Foundation Gives
The Global Fund for Children $1.2 Million for Projects in India" [pdf]
November 13, 2006
"Three Business Leaders Join The Global Fund for Children's Board" [pdf]
November 2, 2006
"GFC Defines New Portfolios" [pdf]
August 17, 2006
"Two Groups Receive GFC Emergency Grants
for Youngest Victims of the Conflict in Lebanon" [pdf]
July 11, 2006
"Charity Navigator Awards Highest Rating to GFC" [pdf]
June 5, 2006
"Two
Groups Receive Emergency GFC Grants to
Help Victims of Indonesian
Earthquake" [pdf]
May 25, 2006
"Children
to Receive Books from Oprah's Angel Network" [pdf]
May 7, 2006
“The Global Fund
for Children Wins Award for Outstanding Communications”
[pdf]
Media Kits
May 25, 2005
Children to Receive Books
from Oprah’s Angel Network
GFC Experts Directory
- Maya Ajmera, President
- Victoria Dunning, Director of Grantmaking
- Cynthia Pon, Director of Global Fund for Children Books
- Solome Lemma, Program Officer for Africa
- Shawn Malone, Program Officer for Latin America
- Ananaya Bhattacharya, Program Officer for South Asia
GFC In the News
Book Links
January 2006
"Talking
with Maya Ajmera" [pdf]
By Anne Davies
Permission to reprint "Talking with Maya Ajmera" by Anne
Davies (vol. 15, no.3, January 2006) granted by Book Links: Connecting
Books, Libraries, and Classrooms, published by the American Library
Association.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
February 3, 2005
“Sending
Aid Around the World: Long-Term Pledges to Rebuild Lives”
By Maya Ajmera and Kavita Nandini Ramdas
Harvard International Review
“A
Local Focus in Responding to the South Asia Tsunami”
by Maya Ajmera and Greg Fields
Audio Interviews
National Public Radio (NPR) interview about Children from Australia
to Zimbabwe
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Player
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Media Player
Reading by Dr. John Hope Franklin from Xanadu: The Imaginary Place
Listen the Xanadu Reading using the
RealAudio Player
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to the Xanadu Reading
using the Windows Media Player
Speeches [pdf]
The Beauty
of Dreams
2004 NCSSM Commencement Speech
by Maya Ajmera, President and Founder of the Global Fund for Children
Education, Health,
and Human Development
Global Philanthropy Forum, Stanford University
June 5, 2003
by Maya Ajmera, President and Founder of the Global Fund for Children
Book Reviews and Awards
Animal Friends
Back to School
Be My Neighbor
Children from
Australia to Zimbabwe
Children
of Native America Today
Come Out and Play
Extraordinary Girls
Going to School
in India
A Kid’s Best
Friend
Let the Games Begin
My Family
Ser Niño
To Be a Kid
To Be an Artist
GFC On Air
National Public Radio (NPR) interview about Children from Australia
to Zimbabwe
Listen
the NPR interview using the RealAudio Player
Listen
to the NPR interview using the Windows Media Player
Reading by Dr. John Hope Franklin from Xanadu: The Imaginary Place
Listen
the Xanadu Reading using the RealAudio Player
Listen
to the Xanadu Reading
using the Windows Media Player
Newsletters
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Annual Reports [pdf]
2006-2007 Annual Report
2005-2006 Annual Report
2004-2005 Annual Report
2003-2004 Annual Report
2002-2003 Annual Report
2001-2002 Annual Report
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