The Global Fund for Children’s mission is to advance the dignity of children and youth around the world. GFC pursues its mission by making small grants to innovative community-based organizations working with some of the world’s most vulnerable children and youth, complemented by a dynamic media program that, through books, documentary photography, and film, highlights the issues affecting children and celebrates the global society in which they all live

Millions of children around the world are born into a stark reality: will they work in markets and mines, or go to school? Will they be trafficked into slavery, or be free? Will they be child soldiers, or students? These are staggering choices no child should face.  At The Global Fund for Children, they transform the lives of children on the edges of society—trafficked children, refugees, child laborers—and help them regain their rights and pursue their dreams. In other words, they do all they can to let kids be kids—no matter what their circumstances. Since 1997, they have reached nearly 10 million children worldwide.

The Global Fund for Children finds and invests in small, locally led organizations that transform the lives of the world’s most vulnerable children.

By providing grassroots organizations with a combination of flexible cash grants and capacity-building services, they help them achieve their goals and maximize their impact. The result: strong grassroots organizations that are transforming children’s lives, their communities, and civil society as a whole.