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Global Fund for Children partners with grassroots organizations around the world, helping them deepen their impact on the lives of children and youth and develop their capacity for social change. 

Thank you to our supporters and partners for helping to build a world where all children and youth are safe, strong, and valued.

Welcome!

This was a year of tremendous growth at Global Fund for Children.

With your support, we awarded over $7.4 million in grants to 293 organizations in 40 countries. We launched new initiatives focused on climate action, post-pandemic education recovery, and youth leadership. We also supported our partners as they responded to crises around the world, including by increasing our assistance for grassroots groups helping Ukrainian children and families.

Over the past year, we saw record revenue growth, including a one-time $10 million gift from MacKenzie Scott that recognized the effectiveness of GFC’s model and our potential.

In this report, you’ll learn about how we:

  • Invested in education, climate action, and youth leadership: We launched a new round of our youth-led Spark Fund initiative, focusing on climate action in Southeast Asia, and began an initiative in Thailand to foster youth leadership at the grassroots. We also partnered with seven peer funders to help children in Central America overcome educational barriers that were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Learned, influenced, and connected: Our partners have asked us to encourage other donors to embrace trust-based philanthropy, and we have expanded our efforts to influence how the philanthropy and development sectors operate. We engaged a record number of grassroots partners and youth leaders in promoting child and youth participation, the power of community-led change, and trust-based philanthropy, which shifts power to grantee partners to best support their needs and goals.
  • Implemented our five-year vision: We continued to make progress toward achieving our five-year vision, which emphasizes community-driven systems change and the role of children and youth as leaders and changemakers. We recruited new members for our Youth Leadership Council, which now includes youth activists from 11 countries. We also deepened community participation in our work, including by fostering increased community involvement in addressing the root causes of child exploitation in India and violence against girls in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
  • Supported partners responding to wars, natural disasters, and economic crises: To help children and youth affected by crises, we provide emergency grants to our grassroots partners. Over the past year, we awarded emergency grants to 58 grassroots organizations in Ukraine and neighboring countries that are helping children and families impacted by Russia’s war. We also supported partners responding to earthquakes in Türkiye, floods in Pakistan, and an economic crisis in Sri Lanka.

We are proud to continue to host Funder Safeguarding Collaborative, which supports grantmaking organizations that want to ensure that their work and the work they fund keep people safe. Over the past year, the collaborative provided its membership – which grew to include 70 grantmaking organizations – with a unique community to learn about and share information on safeguarding practices and policies.

As the world’s growing youth population grapples with major challenges, our work becomes more critical. We are inspired every day by our grassroots partners’ dedication to their communities and by the positive changes they achieve with and for young people. Thank you for your partnership as we continue to build a future in which all children and youth are safe, strong, and valued.


Sincerely,

Swatee Deepak
Co-Chair, Global Board of Directors
John Hecklinger
President and CEO
Greg Wallig
Co-Chair, Global Board of Directors
Milena Rusu
Chair, Youth Leadership Council
Mark Wilson
Chair, UK Trust Board of Trustees

We invite you to watch the video below, in which kids interview GFC’s President and CEO, to learn more about our work.

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Zimbabwe
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Zambia
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United States
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United Kingdom

Learn more about our work supporting healthy masculinities in the UK.

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Ukraine

Learn more about our work supporting grassroots organizations in Ukraine that are helping children and families impacted by Russia's war.

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Uganda
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Türkiye

Learn more about our emergency response to earthquakes in Türkiye.

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Sri Lanka

Learn more about our emergency response to an economic crisis in Sri Lanka.

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Thailand

Learn more about our Spark Fund round focused on climate action in Southeast Asia.

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South Africa
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Sierra Leone

Learn more about our Sustainability Award winner in Sierra Leone.

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Serbia
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Romania
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Poland
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Peru

Learn more about the experience of one of our Spark Fund panelists from Peru.

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Pakistan

Learn more about the impact of our Spark Fund initiative in Pakistan.

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Nepal

Learn more about our work supporting post-pandemic education in Nepal and other countries in South Asia.

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Nicaragua
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Moldova

Learn more about our work supporting grassroots organizations in Moldova, and other countries neighboring Ukraine, that are helping children and families impacted by Russia’s war.

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Namibia
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Macedonia
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Mexico

Learn more about the impact of our Spark Fund initiative in Mexico.

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Mauritius
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Kenya
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India

Learn more about our Courage Award and Dignity Award winners in India.

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Liberia
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Guatemala

Learn more about our work supporting healthy masculinities in Guatemala.

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Lesotho

Learn more about the impact of our Spark Fund initiative in Lesotho.

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Kyrgyzstan
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Georgia
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Honduras

Learn more about our work supporting education in Honduras.

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Hungary
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Ghana

Learn more about our work supporting post-pandemic education in Ghana and other countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Guinea

Learn more about our work supporting girls' rights and education in Guinea.

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Brazil

Learn more about our work supporting post-pandemic education in Brazil and other countries in the Americas.

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Cambodia
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Cote d'Ivoire

Learn more about our work supporting girls' rights and education in Côte d’Ivoire.

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Colombia
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Bangladesh
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Armenia

Learn more about the impact of our Spark Fund initiative in Armenia.

Year in Review
2022-2023

With your support, we provided flexible funding to 293 grassroots organizations around the world.

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grassroots organizations
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Here is a closer look at the partners worldwide that received financial support and capacity development assistance from GFC over the past year.

39
%
of our partners are youth-led
51
%
of our partners are women-led
21
%
of our partners are led by young women

We are committed to gender equity and youth leadership, including investing in groups led by young people and women, who have traditionally been excluded from formal leadership positions.

83
%
first flexible funding

For 83% of our partners, we were the first funder to offer flexible cash. GFC has been committed to flexible funding for 30 years. We were one of the earliest proponents of this approach, which allows our partners to determine the best use of their resources and gives them greater ability to innovate and adapt in response to challenges facing children and youth.

64
new partners

The newest partners to join the GFC network are based in 15 countries across the globe, from Colombia to Namibia to Thailand.

79
%
of our new partners are nascent organizations

Nearly 80% of our new partners this past year had annual budgets under $50,000. We fill a gap in philanthropy by supporting nascent organizations that other funders are not yet ready to support. We also strategically fund organizations at more advanced stages of growth that contribute invaluable experience to our initiatives.

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initiatives

We build networks of community leaders through regional and thematic initiatives on a range of issues impacting children and youth, including access to education, gender equity, and trafficking prevention. This past year, we supported 16 initiatives that brought together grassroots leaders and organizations around shared challenges, geographies, and opportunities.

18
convenings
131
workshops

We hosted 18 gatherings to encourage collaboration among partners working on similar issues or within the same region, as well as 131 workshops on topics ranging from wellbeing to community-led change. These events enabled our partners to deepen their knowledge, learn from one another, and build networks, increasing their capacity to create long-term systemic change with and for children and youth. 

81
%
of our partners are doing something differently as a result of GFC’s support

In a survey of our grassroots partners, 81% reported that they had changed aspects of the way they do their work after receiving support from GFC. 

84
Net Promoter Score

On a scale from -100 to +100, GFC received a Net Promoter Score of 84 for the survey question “To what extent does GFC do what it says it will do?” This score means that most GFC partners strongly agree that we follow through on our commitments.

Celebrating Our 30th Anniversary

In 2024, we will celebrate our 30th anniversary.

GFC’s story began when a chance encounter with a grassroots group helping homeless children on a train platform in Bhubaneswar, India, inspired Maya Ajmera to found the organization.

Our Founding Story

Since then, we’ve invested over $63 million in more than 1,000 grassroots organizations, reaching millions of children and youth worldwide. Many of our partners were nascent organizations when we began supporting them. By providing flexible funding and capacity development services, we’ve helped them grow stronger and more responsive to challenges on the ground. We invite you to watch the video below to learn more about how we find our partners.

As we get ready to celebrate our 30th anniversary, we are also focused on the future we envision. We are committed to creating a world where children and youth have more spaces to lead and make decisions in their communities. With your support, we can drive the change young people want to see.

Our Five-Year Vision

Leadership Spotlight

Ian Glasner

Global Board of Directors Member

Ian Glasner began supporting GFC in 2005 at the age of 12, when he donated his bar mitzvah gifts from friends and family to the organization. Later, as a 17-year-old, he interned at GFC, and in 2019, he joined the Global Ambassadors program to amplify GFC’s work.

Ian was elected to GFC’s Global Board of Directors in 2022, bringing not only his longstanding passion for GFC’s mission but also valuable business expertise accrued throughout his career, including from his role as a Group Head of Innovation, Ventures, and Digital Partnerships at HSBC.

GFC’s work taught me from an early age that with the right strategy and execution, I could make a difference in the lives of others. Over the past 18 years, I’ve seen GFC grow its reach and impact while strengthening its unique model of partnering with local organizations and enabling local leaders to make an impact in their communities.”

Learning, Influencing, and Connecting with Partners and Youth

In the philanthropy sector, only a small percentage of funding makes it to the grassroots. Even then, it often comes with many strings attached, including onerous reporting requirements and rigid grant restrictions.  

GFC is committed to influencing other funders to ensure our partners can get the flexible support they need to best support children and youth. We are also committed to creating more opportunities for young people to lead efforts to address the issues that impact them. 

Our peers recognize us as a trusted resource. Over the past year, we spoke at 56 events and published articles in key sector publications. More GFC team members, partners, and youth leaders than ever before raised their voices on child and youth participation, the importance of trust-based philanthropy, and other important topics. We also raised awareness about the needs of civil society organizations in Ukraine and the importance of flexible funding in responding to crises. 

In September 2022, GFC President and CEO John Hecklinger spoke to an audience of global and emerging leaders at the Clinton Global Initiative Meeting in New York. He announced GFC’s commitment to resourcing youth-led climate resilience initiatives in communities around the world that are disproportionately impacted by the effects of climate change.

We continued to draw inspiration from our CEO Circle, which brings together grassroots leaders to share experiences and lessons learned. We first launched this group during the height of the pandemic, and it has continued to foster solidarity and shared learning. Participants have built connections with each other and shared ideas that have helped other grassroots leaders respond to challenges in their communities. 

We also continued to learn from our Partner Advisory Group, a network of partners that acts as a sounding board for GFC in programmatic, learning, and influencing areas. This past year, Partner Advisory Group members led a training for GFC partners in Uganda and met with GFC’s Europe and Eurasia team to help them develop a regional programmatic strategy. 

This past year, we carried out a learning review to better understand the impact of our five-year anti-trafficking initiative in India. We collaborated with our partners from the initiative, and we found opportunities to incorporate capacity development and learning. This initiative strengthened our partners’ relationships with their communities in combating trafficking and hazardous child labor, paving the way for a new regional initiative focused on engaging communities to address the root causes of child exploitation.

We also spent time developing a new theory of change that honors the agency of children and youth as powerful changemakers. It emphasizes that GFC, our grassroots partners, and the children and communities we serve are part of a larger ecosystem that we can influence.

To ensure that grassroots voices lead our efforts to shift power in the funding ecosystem, we brought together partner leaders and youth activists to develop a strategy. We listened to their priorities, and together we will advocate for change to make sure that grassroots organizations have the resources they need to thrive.

Throughout all our work, we continued to implement our five-year vision for 2022–2026. We invite you to watch the video below to learn more about our vision for the future.

Funders have so much less to lose, and so much more power to weather the consequences if a development project fails. Rather than asking local partners to mitigate funders’ and intermediaries’ risks, we need to structure our partnerships to support local groups’ capacity to face and mitigate the additional risks they take on for social change.”

– Kimberly McClain, GFC’s Regional Co-Director for the Americas, arguing for trust-based philanthropy in an op-ed published in Devex

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Supporting Post-Pandemic Education

The COVID-19 pandemic brought unprecedented challenges to education systems worldwide. GFC is committed to addressing learning gaps and helping children access quality education.

Over the past year, GFC supported global and regional initiatives to help children overcome pandemic-related education disruptions and prepare for future success.

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grassroots organizations
11
countries

Partnership to Educate All Kids (PEAK)

Our Partnership to Educate All Kids (PEAK) initiative, which brings together 66 grassroots organizations in ten countries across Latin America, South Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa, continued to help children readjust to in-person learning and acquire skills that will enable them to become creative, lifelong learners.

The organizations in the PEAK initiative, which is supported by the LEGO Foundation, are integrating play-based learning into their programs to make education more enjoyable for kids. They are engaging children through sports, music, dance, storytelling, art, Native games, meditation, and more. They are also using play as a tool to reclaim Indigenous cultures, challenge gender norms, and prevent violence.

This initiative, which we launched in 2022, has already inspired innovation. During its first year, our grassroots partners experimented with novel ideas and implemented 168 new activities or substantial programmatic changes, many of which were sparked by GFC’s capacity development support or exchanges with other GFC partners.

We use drama displays, poetry, singing, and dancing to highlight the importance of education and promote an interest in learning for children after having spent over a year out of school as a result of the pandemic.”

– Joseph Afangbe, Executive Director of Young Visionary Leaders Ghana, which is a PEAK initiative partner

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RECARGA

In Central America, GFC teamed up with seven other funders to support the recovery, renewal, and improvement of learning environments for children in Guatemala and Honduras. This initiative, known as RECARGA for its initials in Spanish, supports 12 grassroots organizations. It is a collaboration between GFC and Tinker Foundation, The Summit Foundation, International Community Foundation, Luis von Ahn Foundation, Focus Central America, Vibrant Village Foundation, and The Ward Foundation.

We invite you to watch this video to learn more about what education means to our partners in Central America and the young people they support.

Donor Spotlight

Tinker Foundation

The Tinker Foundation is proud to be a founding supporter and co-designer of the Educational Recovery in Central America: Supporting the Critical Role of Civil Society Organizations (RECARGA) Donor Collaborative. RECARGA provides a space for funders to maximize our collective contribution to education recovery in Central America, learning from and alongside dedicated grassroots organizations and insightful GFC staff in the process.”

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Sparking Youth-led Change

We deepened our youth-led participatory grantmaking work over the past year and launched a new initiative to foster youth leadership in Thailand.

We believe in creating opportunities for young people to lead efforts to address the issues that impact them.

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M+
awarded by youth panelists to 56 grassroots organizations in 13 countries
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youth panelists representing 15 countries

Over the past year, our Spark Fund initiative continued to support youth-led and youth-focused efforts to address critical issues such as inequality, LGBTQ+ rights, and mental health.

This initiative, which we launched in 2021, put key grantmaking decisions in the hands of youth activists in the Americas, Europe and Eurasia, South Asia, and Southern Africa. To date, the youth panelists have awarded over $1.1 million to 56 organizations in their communities.

The youth panelists chose organizations fighting to end period poverty in Lesotho, building climate resilience in Pakistan, protecting Indigenous cultural identity in Mexico, and much more. No matter what issue they focus on, these grassroots organizations are achieving inspiring changes in their communities. Frontline Youth Network, for example, supports peacebuilding work in the conflict-affected border regions of Armenia. This youth-led organization convinced the Armenian government to approve its peace education curriculum so that it can be taught in schools across the country.

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More than a process to provide funding, it was a window to give a hand to many youth organizations so that they could continue to fight hunger, the environmental crisis, and violence, among other issues in their communities. It was also an opportunity to learn about and make visible thousands of problems and how youth leadership is willing to confront them. Thank you for allowing us to be part of it.”

– Flor Campos Rivas, a Spark Fund panelist from Peru

This past year, GFC also launched an initiative in Thailand that fosters youth involvement and elevates youth voices in local communities and organizations. Through this initiative, which is a partnership with the Algot Enevoldsen Foundation, GFC is providing seven grassroots groups with flexible funding and capacity development to support their efforts to center youth leadership. The organizations in this initiative work with a number of different communities, including stateless and undocumented children and youth, Myanmar refugees and migrants, ethnic communities, and teenage parents.

Leadership Spotlight

Khalid Ahmad Tamu

Youth Panelist

Khalid Ahmad Tamu, a youth activist from Sierra Leone and the Executive Director of the Network for Children’s Empowerment, joined the Spark Fund youth panel in Southern Africa. He collaborated with other youth activists from his region to select 16 partner organizations in Lesotho, Namibia, and Zimbabwe.

We invite you to watch this video to learn more about Khalid and his experience with the Spark Fund.

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Investing in Climate Action

GFC expanded its support for youth-led and youth-focused climate action, launching a new initiative in Southeast Asia.

Climate change disproportionately impacts children and youth, who have taken a leading role in driving climate action in their communities and around the world.

In 2023, GFC launched a round of the Spark Fund focused on climate action in Southeast Asia. This initiative, a partnership with the Avery Dennison Foundation, Lien AID, and Porticus, fuels youth-led climate resilience efforts in the region. A panel of 15 young people who represent their communities will lead the fund’s design and select a cohort of youth-led and youth-focused partner organizations.

We invite you to watch the video below to learn more about this initiative. Stay tuned for more information in next year’s annual report.

Over the past year, GFC also partnered with climate-focused grassroots organizations that educate children and youth about sustainability, promote climate change mitigation measures, and carry out environmental protection projects.

Some of these grassroots organizations were chosen by the youth panelists who led GFC’s Spark Fund. They awarded grants to youth-led and youth-focused organizations in Colombia, Mexico, Pakistan, and Peru that are promoting sustainable agriculture and the conservation of natural resources; addressing the impacts of climate change on marginalized communities; and educating young people about climate action.

Everything we do is always about sustainability, not just growing our own food, but also to be independent in your home, in your own village.”

– Rosalie Tieges, Executive Director of Thai Child Development Foundation, which promotes sustainability and organic farming while also providing learning opportunities for children with disabilities

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Donor Spotlight

Avery Dennison Foundation

We are proud to support the climate resilience work at Global Fund for Children. Their approach to centering youth-led solutions is innovative and critical to address this global challenge.”

Donor Spotlight

Lien AID

Global Fund for Children’s innovations in participatory grantmaking and their focus on community-led development drew us to their work. We’re very excited to be part of the Spark Fund Donor Collaborative.”

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Responding to Emergencies

When disaster strikes, GFC’s flexible emergency grants enable our partners to quickly respond to the needs of children and youth in their communities.

Through our Emergency Response Fund, GFC supported grassroots organizations helping children and youth affected by natural disasters, war, and economic crises.

$
1
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9
M+
in emergency grants
97
grassroots partners received emergency support from GFC

While we are not a humanitarian aid organization, we are committed to ensuring our partners can continue to support the children and youth in their communities during crises.

Over the past year, we continued to support grassroots organizations in Ukraine and neighboring countries that are helping children and families impacted by Russia’s war. We approved 78 emergency grants to support 58 grassroots organizations.

Our partners in Ukraine and neighboring countries are focused on both the immediate and long-term needs of children and families. They are providing shelter, long-term housing, and educational spaces; offering emotional support to children living under incredible stress; assisting LGBTQ+ youth facing discrimination; and much more.

In the fall of 2022, GFC supported grassroots organizations responding to an economic crisis in Sri Lanka that caused widespread hunger, enabling them to provide food and other assistance to impacted families. We also offered emergency funds to a partner in Pakistan providing humanitarian aid in response to devastating flooding.

When massive earthquakes struck Türkiye in February 2023, GFC provided emergency funds to support one of our partner’s efforts to offer humanitarian aid, including baby formula and diapers, as well as long-term support for children in impacted areas.

Sometimes we have to do our planning from inside bomb shelters, but the end result is so rewarding – we see children who came in scared, closed, and even a little aggressive become vibrant, open up, and smile again.”

– Oleksandra Volakova, Coordinator and Method-Trainer at Theatre of Contemporary Dialogue in Ukraine, which has received emergency funding from GFC

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Promoting Gender Justice

GFC supports grassroots organizations that promote girls’ education, redefine masculinities, address the needs of LGBTQ+ youth, and ensure that all children and youth can reach their full potential.

For me, I think gender justice has to do with the search for equal justice and conditions for men and women and different groups. That way, we can come together and find different paths in that search for new opportunities for everyone.”

– Alejandra Teleguario, Coordinator of Red de Jóvenes Artistas por la Justicia Social, which is part of the healthy masculinities initiative in Central America

Over the past year, we supported 17 grassroots organizations in Central America and the United Kingdom that are engaging boys and young men in exploring and promoting healthy masculinities. With support from the Summit Foundation and the Kendeda Fund for work in Central America, and from the #iwill Fund and The National Lottery Community Fund for work in the UK, our partners engaged boys and young men in meaningful social action in their communities and created safe spaces for them to address harmful gender stereotypes.

In Mexico, Guatemala, and the United States, we worked with 12 grassroots organizations that are committed to protecting the safety and rights of adolescent migrant girls. This initiative is supported by Tides Foundation and Comic Relief US. We invite you to watch the video below to learn more about Jóvenes por el Cambio, one of the organizations in this cohort.

In West Africa, thanks to players of People’s Postcode Lottery, GFC supported seven partners in Côte d’Ivoire and Guinea to increase access to education for girls. Our partners empowered girls with the knowledge and skills to become changemakers in their communities and advocated against harmful practices, including child marriage and female genital cutting, that create barriers to girls’ education.

We also supported five grassroots organizations in Liberia and Sierra Leone that are tackling violence against girls while empowering them to exercise agency and autonomy over their bodies and their lives. This initiative is supported by Tides Foundation and People’s Postcode Lottery. We invite you to watch the video above to learn about the 2022 West Africa Adolescent Girls Summit, which was designed by a group of adolescents from Liberia and Sierra Leone who participate in this initiative.

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Donor Spotlight

People’s Postcode Lottery

Funds raised by players of People’s Postcode Lottery and awarded by Postcode Education Trust support the Educating and Empowering Girls initiative in West Africa, which has brought together a cohort of women- and youth-led community-based organizations across Côte d’Ivoire and Guinea to address the barriers girls face in reaching their full potential.

Adolescent girls face a range of challenges when seeking to access education – from early marriage to gender-based violence. Through support for this initiative, we are seeking to ensure a safe return to school for girls, create complementary learning spaces, and advocate for their fundamental right to education.”

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Our Award Winners

GFC was founded on the idea that providing flexible funding to grassroots organizations can transform the lives of children and youth worldwide. Our annual awards celebrate some of these outstanding organizations and further catalyze their success.

We call it the girl-centered power approach. If you want to get good leaders, it has to start with public speaking.”

– Rassie Bah, CASE SALONE’s Founder and Executive Director, describing the organization’s leadership program

With the support from GFC, we are implementing the prevention-of-trafficking model at the grassroots level. Our goal is to promote a safe childhood for all children through education, protection, empowerment, and justice.”

– Soma Bhowmick, Executive Director of SPMUS

The most important thing in this situation is providing quick support. The families we work with cannot afford to wait long for many of the things they need, given the current situation.”

– Tatiana Barantsova, Director of AMI-East

Communities have the solutions to these problems. They can be the ones, if we work and facilitate these processes with them, who can develop a response.”

– Shannon Massar, Faith Foundation’s Co-Founder and Director

Juliette Gimon Courage Award

This past year marked the fifth year of the Juliette Gimon Courage Award, which recognizes innovative grassroots organizations that are positively impacting children in especially challenging circumstances. The award was established in honor of the late Juliette Gimon, a GFC Board Chair and dedicated advocate for children’s rights.

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AMI-East

Ukraine

Luhansk Regional Organization – Association of Women, Youth, and Families with Disabilities of the Eastern Donbas (AMI-EAST) provides comprehensive assistance to children and youth with disabilities in Ukraine. Among its many achievements, the organization has created an inclusive hybrid school and developed training programs for children and teachers to foster inclusion, in addition to facilitating the evacuation and support of thousands of families during Russia’s war on Ukraine.

SPMUS

India

Suprava Panchashila Mahila Uddyog Samity (SPMUS) works with and advocates for women and children in West Bengal, India, which has one of the country’s highest rates of trafficking and child marriage. SPMUS offers a range of programs that rescue, rehabilitate, and reintegrate trafficked women and girls; prevent domestic violence and early marriage; and care for and support abandoned women.

Donor Spotlight

Flora Birdzell

I first learned about GFC from my mother and my sister over 20 years ago. Our extended family’s commitment to GFC runs deep, as we value both the impact of this vital work on the lives of people in communities around the world as well as the grantmaking model itself. It is therefore fitting that my current association with and support of this phenomenal organization continues in an effort to honor the legacy of my cousin, Juliette Gimon, through the Courage Awards.

Over the last five years since Juliette passed away, the Juliette Gimon Courage Awards have been awarded to 12 innovative and distinctive organizations located across five continents. The global nature of this organization surely appealed to Juliette, as it does to me still, but what’s most inspiring and telling is the way GFC supports courageous communities to form and grow: with love, strength, compassionate care, and – of course – financial resources. Juliette would be proud.”

Maya Ajmera Sustainability Award

The annual Maya Ajmera Sustainability Award – named in honor of our Founder – recognizes the accomplishments of outstanding GFC partners while providing an investment in their long-term stability.

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CASE SALONE

Sierra Leone

Center for Advocacy and Sustainable Empowerment (CASE SALONE) is dedicated to removing barriers to girls’ education in Sierra Leone by empowering girls to stay in school, realize their potential, and take on leadership positions. Working in schools and communities, the organization establishes student empowerment clubs, trains girls in leadership and public speaking, and provides girls with safe spaces and counseling services.

Robert D. Stillman Dignity Award

The Dignity Award, established in 2020 in honor of former GFC Board Chair Bob Stillman, recognizes exceptional organizations responding to risks and challenges affecting the wellbeing of children and youth.

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Faith Foundation

India

Faith Foundation works in and around the city of Shillong in India’s Meghalaya state to prevent child sexual abuse and early marriage; rescue, rehabilitate, and reintegrate trafficked women and girls; prevent domestic violence; and support abandoned women.

Our Donors

Our work would not be possible without you: global citizens who want to make positive, lasting change in the lives of children and youth. Thank you.

We are immensely grateful for all contributions, large and small. This list includes donors at the $1,000 level and above.

Adrian & Connie Dillon Family Foundation

Bridgemill Foundation

The Brimstone Fund

Brooklyn Community Foundation

Cafaro Foundation

Capital for Good

Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation

Don & Iris Kim Foundation

Early Opportunities Child Development Fund, a Donor-Advised Fund of the US Charitable Gift Trust

Elder Family Partnership Ltd. Foundation

Enkel Foundation

Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund

Flora Family Foundation

Gimon d’Ansembourg Foundation

Girls Rights Project

God My Silent Partner Foundation

The Grace Jones Richardson Trust

Harrington Family Foundation

Hawk Rock Foundation

Hurlbut-Johnson Charitable Trusts

Hutton Family Foundation

Indus Charitable Foundation

Kenyon Family Foundation Trust

Leslie L. Alexander Foundation

Mahoney Tallman Family Foundation

The Manifold Fund

Marc Haas Foundation

Network for Good

New York Community Trust

Oakmark Funds

Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc.

Sal & Andrea Marino Family Fund

Sanghera Foundation

Sasha W. Khalaf Fund

Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Anonymous (6)

Gary Abel

Maya Ajmera & David H. Hollander Jr.

Irfan Alibhai

Jennifer & Peter Altabef

Esther & Michel Antakly

Barbara & William Ascher

Cathy Barnes

Angela Bednarek

Flora Birdzell

Bernadette Black

Elizabeth Bostock

Billy Brown

James M. Cain, Esq.

Julie & Kevin Callaghan

Dylan Collins

Blake & Michael Daffey

Jonathan Darling

Stephanie & Antoine de Guillenchmidt

Swatee Deepak

Emily Esau

Jennifer & James Esposito

Lynn Foden

Marc Friedman

Taylor Fujimura

Eleanor H. Gimon

Ian Glasner

Susan Gutchess

Gail Ewing Hall

John Hecklinger

Richard Hecklinger

Mike Hutchinson

Lisa Issroff

Sanjiv Khattri

Karen & Gregory King

Richard Launspach

Teresa Luchsinger

James Mahoney

Daniel Marolda

Charles Kyne McCabe

Celine-Marie G. Mechain

Shweta Siraj Mehta & Amish Mehta

Richard Meier

Stacey Mitchell

Kiran Moorthy

Douglas Newton

Kelli O’Brien & Michael Kolotylo

Margot Perot

Anjali Pichai

Thomas Platford

Sonal Priyanka

Maximilian Regner-Bleyleben

Derek Robinson

Mary & Timothy Rooney

Lila & Andrew Rymer

MacKenzie Scott

Miriam Sexton

Margaret Stillman

Alex Taurel

Lee Veitch

Greg Wallig

Sasha & Howard Weinstein

Stephanie Wilder

Caroline & Mark Wilson

Christopher Wolz

Leonardo Zancani

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Charlesbridge Publishing

Estée Lauder Companies

Goldman Sachs Gives

InDrive

Lemongrass Consulting

Lloyds Bank Foundation

PJT Partners

TOMS

Anonymous (1)

Algot Enevoldsen Foundation

Avery Dennison Foundation

Bainum Family Foundation

Circle of Service Foundation

Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan

Co-op Foundation

Crosscurrents International Institute

Dorothea Haus Ross Foundation

Emplifi (Helter Skelter)

Etsy Impact Fund

Focus Central America

Fondation CHANEL

The Fund for Global Human Rights

Fund for Southern Communities

GEN Foundation

GHR Foundation

The Giving Block

GlobalGiving

Hearthland Embers Fund

International Community Foundation

#iwill Fund

Kendeda Fund

Laudes Foundation

The LEGO Foundation

Lien AID

Luis von Ahn Foundation

National Lottery Community Fund

New Hampshire Charitable Foundation

Open Hands

Opus Prize Foundation

People’s Postcode Lottery

Porticus

Red Nose Day Fund at Comic Relief Inc.

The Summit Foundation

The Tides Foundation

Tinker Foundation

Two Lillies Fund

UBS Optimus Foundation

US Charitable Gift Trust

Vibrant Village Foundation

WE Trust

Wellspring Advisors

Youth Endowment Fund

Benevity Community Impact Fund

Charities Aid Foundation America

Global Impact

Network for Good

World Bank Community Connections Fund

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

bonafide hr

Eversheds Sutherland LLP

Lex Mundi

Maya Ajmera & David H. Hollander Jr.

Antonella Antonini & Alan Stein

Colleen Brinkmann

Warren L. Kessler

Iara Lee

John Presley

Adele Richardson Ray

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Donor Spotlight

MacKenzie Scott

For anyone similarly interested in supporting the leadership of people from the communities they’re assisting, funds are a great resource. They pool donations and spread them across a diverse group of smaller organizations working toward a common cause.”

– MacKenzie Scott in a blog post announcing her decision to donate to GFC and other organizations

In the fall of 2022, MacKenzie Scott made a one-time unrestricted gift of $10 million to GFC. We were honored to receive this generous donation, which recognized the effectiveness of GFC’s model and presented us with an enormous opportunity to expand and deepen our work.

In order to use this gift in the most impactful way possible, we engaged our team, Board members, and other constituents in the decision-making process. Together, we decided to use most of the funds to support our grassroots partners now and in future emergencies and opportunities, to build a strong evidence base for our approach, and to invest in GFC’s own capacity to support our partners for the long haul.

Donor Spotlight

WE Trust

Our mission at WE Trust is to help create a more cooperative, compassionate world – we believe that positive change can only be defined in conjunction with the people at the heart of an issue. We are proud to support Global Fund for Children’s work to address the root causes of trafficking and exploitation in communities throughout Bangladesh.

Through working with the organizations that are closest to communities, GFC is equipping and empowering children, youth, and families with the knowledge and expertise to identify and prevent labor-based trafficking.”

Fundraiser Spotlight

The London Marathon

In October 2022, we enlisted three members of our leadership team to participate in the London Marathon.

We raised over $50,000 through the event, thanks in part to the generosity of a Board member who matched the other donations. This fundraiser also provided GFC with an opportunity to increase our visibility by sharing our mission and unique model with new audiences.

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Funder Safeguarding Collaborative

We believe that all funders have a role to play in keeping the communities they support safe.

Funder Safeguarding Collaborative, housed within GFC, has shown us the growing role and influence grantmakers can have in efforts to keep people and communities safe.

70
members as of June 30, 2023

In 2021, GFC joined forces with four peer grantmakers to create a new funder collaborative to strengthen the ability of grantmaking organizations to prevent abuse and exploitation.

Over the past year, Funder Safeguarding Collaborative (FSC) grew to include 70 grantmaking organizations working on a range of issues, from climate change to human rights and from child protection to arts and culture.

The collaborative connects funders to knowledge and expertise, including webinars and working groups, and provides support tailored to their needs. More than 70% of FSC members contributed membership fees that help sustain the collaborative. Nearly a quarter also took advantage of the opportunity for individualized consulting that supports funders to advance safeguarding within their organizations.

As FSC membership has grown and diversified, so has the FSC team. FSC now includes team members from Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America.

FSC provides invaluable advice and support for all our safeguarding needs. They bring impressive knowledge and experience of safeguarding, including current state of play, practical guidance, and an impressive network.”

– Sally Burnheim, Deputy Director, Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children

We wanted to ensure that the safeguarding practices and processes we were applying as an organization were appropriate. We wanted reassurance that what we had in place was effective, and using the resources, learning, and expertise of FSC, we were able to do this.”

– Lisa Metcalf, Head of People, Youth Futures Foundation

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FSC in Action

Promoting Safety and Wellbeing in Participatory Grantmaking

One of FSC’s aims is to generate knowledge and close evidence gaps on safeguarding. With grantmakers increasingly committing to participatory grantmaking, FSC members highlighted the need for guidance to ensure that these efforts do not cause harm.

In February 2023, FSC published a manual on safeguarding in participatory grantmaking. The manual, developed with the support of the Participatory Grantmaking Community, offers guidance for funders on how to identify and mitigate risks while embedding safeguarding within their participatory grantmaking processes.

Expanding Local Safeguarding Expertise in Asia and Africa

Integral to FSC’s work is the belief that safeguarding measures should consider the social, economic, cultural, and legal context in which organizations operate. FSC members have shared, however, that it can be difficult to access high-quality safeguarding expertise in the regions where they work.

To address this challenge, and with generous funding from the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation and Laudes Foundation, FSC identified safeguarding specialists in five countries across Asia and three countries in Africa. The collaborative brought these experts together for a 12-month program of peer learning and capacity development, enabling FSC to further strengthen access to high-quality, contextually relevant safeguarding expertise.

Funder Safeguarding Collaborative Members

Comic Relief UK

Global Fund for Children

The National Lottery Community Fund

Oak Foundation

Porticus

Amplify Change

Association of Charitable Foundations

B&Q Foundation

Battersea Cats & Dogs Home

BBC Children in Need

Big Change

Big Win Philanthropy

Children’s Investment Fund Foundation

Choose Love

CHOSA

Comic Relief US

Community Foundation Tyne & Wear and Northumberland

Conservation Collective

Cumbria Community Foundation

Disability Rights Fund

DWF Law Foundation

Education Outcomes Fund

Elevate Children Funders Group

EMpower

End Violence Against Children

Epic Foundation

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

European Programme for Integration & Migration

FADICA

Foyle Foundation

The Freedom Fund

The Fund for Global Human Rights

GHR Foundation

Girls First Fund

Global Fund for Women

Global Fund to End Modern Slavery

Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation

Halifax Foundation

The Henry Smith Charity

Howden Group

IDP Foundation

Ignite Philanthropy

Just Beginnings Collaborative

KPMG Foundation

Laudes Foundation

LightEn

Malala Fund

Masonic Charitable Foundation

Mastercard Foundation

Maudsley Charity

New Venture Fund / Arabella Advisors

Old Dart Foundation

Openwork Foundation

Paul Hamlyn Foundation

Pears Foundation

People’s Health Trust

People’s Postcode Lottery

Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts

Samworth Foundation

Segal Family Foundation

Sir John Fisher Foundation

Stewardship

Sweaty Betty Foundation

Swiss Philanthropy

Virgin Unite

Wellcome Trust

Wereldkinderen

Youth Futures Foundation

Youth Music

Angela Albornoz
Children’s Investment Fund Foundation

Stephen Birtwistle
Laudes Foundation

Oge Chukwudozie
Resource and Support Hub

Adriana Craciun
Oak Foundation

Kathleen Flynn

Gladys Onyango
Segal Family Foundation

Coline Rapneu
CHS Alliance

Hayley Roffey
Global Fund for Children

Diederik Slot
Porticus

Deogratias Yiga
Impact and Innovations Development Centre

Our Financials

Consolidated Statement of Financial Position

as of June 30, 2023 and June 30, 2022
20232022
Assets
Cash

$ 21,874,076

$ 7,859,830
Receivables$ 13,344,990$ 5,401,232
Investments$ 2,403,227$ 2,286,068
Right-of-Use Asset (Net)$ 1,293,199$ 0
Other Assets$ 467,266$ 400,060
Total Assets$ 39,382,758$ 15,947,190
Liabilities and Net Assets
Liabilities
Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses$ 440,229$ 289,188
Notes Payable$ 493,676$ 500,000
Grants Payable$ 602,328$ 755,957
Other Liabilities$ 1,578,806$ 311,286
Total Liabilities$ 3,115,039$ 1,856,431
Net Assets
Net Assets without Donor Restrictions$ 12,274,580$ 2,518,804
Net Assets with Donor Restrictions$ 23,993,139$ 11,571,955
Total Net Assets$ 36,267,719$ 14,090,759
Total Liabilities and Net Assets$ 39,382,758$ 15,947,190

Assets

Cash (55.5%)
Receivables (33.9%)
Investments (6.1%)
Right-of-Use Asset (Net) (3.3%)
Other Assets (1.2%)

Liabilities

Other Liabilities (50.7%)
Grants Payable (19.3%)
Notes Payable (15.8%)
Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses (14.1%)

Net Assets

Net Assets with Donor Restrictions (66.2%)
Net Assets without Donor Restrictions (33.8%)

Statement of Activities

for the Year Ended June 30, 2023 and June 30, 2022
20232022
Revenue
Individuals and Family Foundations$ 1,871,342$ 2,388,960
Individuals and Family Foundations - Special Gift$ 10,000,000-
Corporations and Institutional Foundations$ 23,246,792$ 11,908,315
Events-$ 395
Investment Earnings$ 398,707$ (349,077)
Foreign Exchange Gain (Loss)$ 762,742$ (185,099)
Royalties and Other$ 95,851$ 127,971
Total Revenue$ 36,375,434$ 13,891,465
Expenses
Program Expenses
Grants$ 7,498,864$ 5,385,934
Capacity Building$ 4,441,929$ 3,187,311
Communications$ 560,353$ 428,419
Total Program Expenses$ 12,501,146$ 9,001,664
Management and General$ 883,531$ 605,025
Development$ 813,797$ 657,773
Total Expenses$ 14,198,474$ 10,264,462
Increase in Net Assets$ 22,176,960$ 3,627,003

Revenue

Corporations and Institutional Foundations (63.9%)
Individuals and Family Foundations - Special Gift (27.5%)
Individuals and Family Foundations (5.1%)
Foreign Exchange Gain (Loss) (2.1%)
Investment Earnings (1.1%)
Royalties and Other (0.3%)

Program Expenses

Grants (60%)
Capacity Building (35.5%)
Communications (4.5%)

Total Expenses

Program Expenses (88%)
Management and General (6.2%)
Development (5.7%)

Funder Safeguarding Collaborative Statement of Activities

For the Year Ended June 30, 2023 and June 30, 2022
20232022
Revenue

Institutional and Corporations

$ 600,703$ 568,848

Membership

$ 39,967$ 32,136

Consulting

$ 42,701$ 67,944

In-Kind Gifts

$ 4,219-
Total Revenue$ 687,590$ 668,929
Expenses
Program Expenses
Capacity Building$ 402,627$ 170,773
Grants-$ 416,732
Communications$ 857-
Total Program Expenses$ 403,484$ 587,505
Management and General (IDC Plus Exchange Rate Loss or Gain)$ 41,781$ 57,686
Development$ 14,179$ 25,096
Total Expenses$ 459,444$ 670,287
Change in Net Assets$ 228,146($ 1,358)

Opening Balance in Net Assets

$ 610,865$ 612,223

Closing Balance in Net Assets

$ 839,012$ 610,865

Revenue

Institutional and Corporations (87.4%)
Consulting (6.2%)
Membership (5.8%)
In-Kind Gifts (0.6%)

Program Expenses

Capacity Building (99.8%)
Communications (0.2%)

Total Expenses

Program Expenses (87.8%)
Management and General (9.1%)
Development (3.1%)

Our Leadership

Swatee Deepak – Co-Chair
London, United Kingdom

Greg Wallig – Co-Chair
Grant Thornton LLP
Washington, DC

Shweta Siraj Mehta – Chair*
Elements Inc.
Atherton, CA

Lila Rymer – Treasurer
Beazley
New York, NY

Chris Wolz – Secretary
Forum One
Washington, DC

Jennifer Altabef*
Dallas, TX

James M. Cain
Eversheds Sutherland
Washington, DC

Mete Coban, MBE**
My Life My Say
London, United Kingdom

Antoine de Guillenchmidt
Goldman Sachs & Company
London, United Kingdom

Maulik Doshi
RiskSpan
Washington, DC

Jaclyn Foroughi
Brazen Impact, LLC
Stanford Graduate School of Business

Palo Alto, CA

Ian Glasner
HSBC
London, United Kingdom

John Hecklinger
Global Fund for Children
Washington, DC

Nicole Kamaleson
Koya Leadership Partners
Chicago, IL

Joan Lombardi
Early Opportunities LLC
Washington, DC

Stacey H. Mitchell
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Washington, DC

Milena Rusu
Feminismd
Global Fund for Children's Youth Leadership Council

Chisinau, Moldova

Marijana Savic
NGO Atina
Belgrade, Serbia

Mark Wilson
Goldman Sachs & Company
London, United Kingdom

* Term ended in May 2023
** Term ended in November 2023

Mark Wilson – Chair
Goldman Sachs & Company

Antoine de Guillenchmidt – Treasurer
Goldman Sachs & Company

Marine Abiad
Goldman Sachs & Company

Michel Antakly
PJT Partners

Mandy DeFilippo
Morgan Stanley

John Hecklinger
Global Fund for Children

Manju Lulla*
Eros International & Eros Foundation

Kiran Moorthy
Citi Investment Banking

Sonal Sachdev Patel
GMSP Foundation

Muna Wehbe
Strategic Advisor

* Term ended in August 2022

Bishnu Hari Bhatta
Director
Partnership for Sustainable Development

Nepal

Tatiana Costev-Cosuleanu
Executive Director
Institute for Rural Initiatives

Moldova

José Wiliiam Cuxíl
Youth Program Coordinator
Asociación Pop No’j

Guatemala

Amanda Hall
Development and Partnerships Coordinator
Organization for Youth Empowerment

Honduras

Muhammad Shahzad Khan
Founder and Executive Director
Chanan Development Association

Pakistan

Irma González Neri
Executive Director
Center for Integrated Care for Women

Mexico

Emmy Zoomlamai Okello
Founder and Executive Director
Foundation for Inclusive Community Help

Uganda

Kolawole Olatosimi
National Coordinator and Senior Program Officer
Child and Youth Protection Foundation

Nigeria

Camelia Proca
Founder and Director
Asociația pentru Libertate și Egalitate de Gen

Romania

Prableen Tuteja
Executive Director
The YP Foundation

India

Jesús Villalobos
General Director
Utopia

Mexico

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Leadership Spotlight

Zuri Hall

Global Ambassador

In November 2022, Emmy Award-winning TV personality and host Zuri Hall joined GFC as a Global Ambassador to help raise awareness about our work. Zuri, best known for hosting NBC’s American Ninja Warrior and Access Hollywood, is also a passionate advocate for social justice. She has amplified the stories of missing people of color, raised breast cancer awareness for Black women, and given a keynote speech for her hometown NAACP chapter, just to name a few examples.

Encouraging, supporting, and empowering youth – especially those from underserved communities – is one of my greatest passions. It makes all the difference in a child’s life when they have the resources and support they need, and it truly takes a community to make that happen. GFC does the important work of helping to support local communities so that children and youth around the world have the resources and encouragement they need to reach their full potential.”

Leadership Spotlight

Chris Wolz

Global Board of Directors – Secretary

I am passionate about GFC because of how well they locate innovative start-up organizations all over the world working to improve the lives of youth. GFC works with these partners to support them in the ways they want and need, helping them expand the impact they have on the lives of thousands of youth in their communities.”

Leadership Spotlight

Sonal Sachdev Patel

UK Trust Board of Trustees

What makes GFC special to me is that it works in 40 countries, centering the rights and voices of children and young people, and reaches small grassroots organizations taking a community-led approach.”

Youth Leadership Council

In March 2023, we were thrilled to welcome eight new members to our Youth Leadership Council. The council, which advises GFC and ensures that young people inform our work, launched in 2019.

11
countries represented by Youth Leadership Council members

Maria Veronica Papa

Philippines

Maria Veronica Papa is a public policy researcher affiliated with Policy International and the Co-Founder of Kilos Ko Youth, one of the largest youth-run civil society organizations in the Philippines.

Saro Imran

Pakistan

Saro Imran is a young transgender activist and entrepreneur from Pakistan who is dedicated to advancing the sexual and reproductive health and rights of young people, especially those from marginalized communities.

Adibeli Chidinma

Nigeria

Adibeli Chidinma is a youth and adolescent health advocate from Nigeria who promotes good health for young people in Africa by providing them with relevant skills and information.

Ayuba Huudu

Ghana

Ayuba Huudu is the Founder of Save Aid Project and a youth advocate and social worker from Ghana who promotes access to opportunities for children and youth.

Milena Rusu

Moldova
Chair

Milena Rusu is a feminist activist from Moldova and the Founder of Feminismd, the country’s first youth-led organization focused on fighting for gender equality.

Stephani Paliza

Peru

Stephani Paliza is a youth activist from Peru and serves as the General Coordinator at Fundación Multitudes, a Chilean nongovernmental organization.

Nojus Saad

Iraq
Vice Chair

Nojus Saad is a digital healthcare expert from Iraq and the President of Youth For Women Foundation, a French nonprofit organization.

Saru

Nepal
Interim Chair (until Feb. 2023)

Saru is a youth activist from Nepal who serves as the Executive Producer at Utar Chadhav, a mental health podcast.

Solomon Ndondo

Zimbabwe

Solomon Ndondo is a children’s rights activist and human rights defender from Zimbabwe and the Founder and Executive Director of the Africa Rise Foundation.

Paloma J. Paul

Chile

Paloma J. Paul is a youth activist from Chile, where she works at Disidencias en Red, a political advocacy organization that promotes LGBTQI+ rights in Chile and around the world.

Rostyslav Semka

Ukraine

Rostyslav Semka is a youth activist from Ukraine and the head of a nongovernmental organization called Inspiration Place.

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Our Team

Over the past year, we continued to invest in hiring team members based close to the partners we serve.

Our growing team now spans 17 countries – from Liberia to Honduras to Bangladesh. We have also increasingly embraced a co-leadership model, and we now have regional co-directors for our Africa, Americas, and Europe and Eurasia programs teams. We invite you to explore our team’s global reach in this map.

Global Fund for Children

Washington, DC, United States
+1 202.331.9003

Global Fund for Children UK Trust

London, United Kingdom
+44 2081 642428

Funder Safeguarding Collaborative

London, United Kingdom