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THE GLOBAL FUND FOR
Annual Report 20 01–2002
The Global Fund for Children
1101 Fourteenth Street, NW, Suite 910
Washington, DC 20005
Our Vision: A world where children grow up to be productive, caring
citizens of our global society.
Our Mission: Advancing the human rights and dignity of young people
around the world.
The Global Fund for Children (GFC) pursues its mission by:
•
supporting innovative community-based educational organizations that
serve some of the world’s most vulnerable children; and
•
educating the public through a vibrant community education and
outreach program, including a children’s-book-publishing venture, that
helps children and adults value their place in the global community.
Today’s children face many challenges. Here in the
United States, and elsewhere in the industrialized
world, young people must learn to thrive in rapidly
changing and diverse societies. In the developing
world, severe poverty and a lack of education
limit many children’s lives. As our world becomes
increasingly interdependent, the problems that
cloud so many children’s futures, from lack of
basic education to ethnic conflict, require global
solutions. The Global Fund for Children believes
that all of the world’s children must be empowered
to reach their full potential in order to meet the
challenges that the future will bring.
Our Vision: A world where children grow up to be productive, caring
citizens of our global society.
Our Mission: Advancing the human rights and dignity of young people
around the world.
The Global Fund for Children (GFC) pursues its mission by:
•
supporting innovative community-based educational organizations that
serve some of the world’s most vulnerable children; and
•
educating the public through a vibrant community education and
outreach program, including a children’s-book-publishing venture, that
helps children and adults value their place in the global community.
Today’s children face many challenges. Here in the
United States, and elsewhere in the industrialized
world, young people must learn to thrive in rapidly
changing and diverse societies. In the developing
world, severe poverty and a lack of education
limit many children’s lives. As our world becomes
increasingly interdependent, the problems that
cloud so many children’s futures, from lack of
basic education to ethnic conflict, require global
solutions. The Global Fund for Children believes
that all of the world’s children must be empowered
to reach their full potential in order to meet the
challenges that the future will bring.
Letter from the Board Chair
Dear Friends,
When I met Maya Ajmera seven years ago and she invited me to become a founding board
member, I learned that shakti means “empowerment” in Hindi. The mission of the Global
Fund for Children and its children’s-book-publishing arm, Shakti for Children, is to empower
children through education, to encourage creative expression, and ultimately to improve
children’s lives by securing basic human rights. The mission includes teaching the values of
diversity, tolerance, and multiculturalism in the global community through beautiful books
and community outreach. As the daughter of educators and the mother of three children,
I found this work to be compelling, necessary, and hopeful in a world where the lives and
futures of many children are precarious and threatened. This extraordinary and novel effort
posed new intellectual, organizational, and grant-making challenges that are reflected in the
Global Fund for Children’s flexible and dynamic evolution and in its achievements described
in this first annual report.
The publication in 1996 of Children from Australia to Zimbabwe led to a multiple-book
partnership with Charlesbridge Publishing, the establishment of the Shakti for Children
imprint, and many awards in the field of children’s books. The first book and the others that
have followed celebrate the uniqueness, diversity, and universality that characterize all the
world’s cultures. In 1997, a portion of the proceeds from sales of the book helped fund
the Global Fund for Children’s first three grant awards, totaling $3,100. In the intervening
years, through royalties from book sales and, significantly, from private gifts and foundation
support, the Global Fund for Children has awarded more than $469,000 to grassroots
organizations that directly benefit children in twenty countries.
We are proud of the growth and accomplishments of the Global Fund for Children and
its influence on the lives of children worldwide. We are grateful for the generosity of its
supporters and friends. We applaud the dedication, passion, and creativity of the founder,
Maya Ajmera, and the diverse and talented staff who have worked tirelessly to advance the
mission of the Global Fund for Children.
We are also keenly aware that much more work must be done in order to secure the
basic human rights of children, a population that remains underserved, underprotected,
and undervalued. To this end, the Global Fund for Children has recently assessed its
organizational goals and infrastructure and is poised to address new challenges stemming
from its early successes. We want the Global Fund for Children to grow and serve a
broader community, but not at all costs. We continue to value and will strive to maintain the
entrepreneurial spirit and character that distinguish the Global Fund for Children’s efforts.
It has been a privilege over the past seven years to work with the other founding board
members, Adele Richardson Ray and William Ascher. We are especially pleased to welcome
five new members to the board: Dena Blank, Valerie Gardner, Juliette Gimon, Sandra
Pinnavaia, and Robert Stillman. On behalf of the entire board, thank you for your past
support. I encourage your continued commitment as we advance the mission of the Global
Fund for Children and improve the lives of young people everywhere.
Sincerely,
Laura B. Luger, Board Chair
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Letter from the Executive Director
Dear Friends,
It is a great pleasure to present our first annual report.
Eight years ago, I had a vision of advancing the human rights of young people by creating
photo-illustrated multicultural children’s books and using the royalties and other private
gifts to invest in innovative literacy groups serving vulnerable children and youth around the
world. This idea was the culmination of a dream that evolved throughout my childhood in
eastern North Carolina and during frequent trips to India, my parents’ homeland. With a little
bit of luck and a large dose of “hallucinogenic optimism,” the project was seeded in the first
year with a $25,000 grant from the Echoing Green Foundation.
For four long years, I concentrated solely on creating our first book, Children from Australia
to Zimbabwe. Never in my wildest dreams did I expect that the next four years would
lead to seven more books and $469,000 in small grants to exceptional community-based
organizations educating children and young people in the most innovative ways.
When I walk into a library, I am thrilled to see our books worn and dog-eared from use,
because I know that through these books young readers have explored the world and their
place in the global community. When I meet with our grantee partners, I am awed by the
possibilities that exist to fulfill our mission of advancing the human rights of young people.
These grassroots organizations are on the front lines from Afghanistan to Zambia, creating
effective approaches to help the children they serve become caring, productive citizens of
their communities. I invite you to read about these remarkable, innovative groups in the
pages that follow.
The Global Fund for Children has always chosen to work behind the scenes, letting
our books convey our vision and unobtrusively supporting our grantee partners in their
courageous work on behalf of children. After the events of September 11, we reexamined
our role in a drastically changed world and realized that we could no longer remain quiet
about the grave needs of vulnerable young people around the world. We have since
raised our voice and have been rewarded with several wonderful opportunities to discuss
approaches to problems facing so many of the world’s children. We were invited last spring
to present at the Global Philanthropy Forum’s Borderless Giving Conference at Stanford
University and at the annual International Development Conference at Harvard University.
These and other venues gave us the opportunity to share our model and to work with
philanthropists and thought leaders from across the country.
As we move forward, my vision for the future is to support a greater number of innovative
groups globally while not sacrificing our creative and entrepreneurial spirit. This will be done
by a talented team that includes the GFC staff and board of directors. Our day-to-day work is
supported by an extraordinary group of individuals—Greg Fields, Steve Ginther, Joan Shifrin,
and Felicia Sullivan. In addition, I want to thank our founding board of directors, Laura Luger,
William Ascher, and Adele Richardson Ray, for always giving us the flexibility to innovate.
I am pleased to have Dena Blank, Valerie Gardner, Juliette Gimon, Sandra Pinnavaia, and
Robert Stillman join the board of directors as we move forward in building GFC into a lasting
institution for social change.
Lastly, thank you for supporting the Global Fund for Children. Many of you have not only
been generous supporters of our work, but you have been our friends, providing us with
wisdom and guidance. Thank you for your belief in our work and vision.
With my best wishes,
Maya Ajmera,
Executive Director
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The Global Fund for Children’s History
From a Pioneering Concept to a Mission Intensively Pursued
The Global Fund for Children was launched, in the very beginning, with an
elegant and pioneering concept: Publish multicultural children’s books and
distribute the proceeds from their sale through a grant-making process that
targets innovative nonprofit organizations in impoverished regions of the
world to improve the lives of children in their communities. The business
plan, and the hope, was to apply the entrepreneurial skills of a start-up
company to harness the power and wealth of the commercial markets,
creating a source of revenue to advance an important social mission. Just
as idealism initially drove GFC’s ambitious publishing efforts, the realities of
the publishing industry and marketplace soon caused GFC to direct equal
energies to building its book-publishing venture and its grant-making program.
From this initial 1994 vision, GFC’s
founder, Maya Ajmera, co-authored and
self-published the first book, Children from
Australia to Zimbabwe: A Photographic
Journey around the World, with Anna
Rhesa Versola in 1996. Shortly thereafter
GFC awarded its first three grants, totaling
$3,100, to the Train Platform Schools in
Bhubaneswar, India; the Thai Youth AIDS
Prevention Project in Chiang Mai, Thailand;
and the World Library Partnership in
Durham, North Carolina. The book’s success
led to an innovative alliance the following
year with Charlesbridge Publishing of
Watertown, Massachusetts, a publisher
of children’s books. GFC’s publishing
venture, Shakti for Children, with ten titles
in print and many other titles currently in
development, has become a well-respected
imprint dedicated exclusively to multicultural
children’s books.
Shakti for Children books allow GFC
to present ideas leisurely, almost
conversationally. They give GFC the chance
to engage readers’ minds and hearts and
to tell stories that impart valuable lifetime
lessons. GFC realized that the Shakti for
Children series took on a meaning beyond
the royalties that the books might generate.
Indeed, GFC came to realize the power
of the written word to inspire the broader
vision of its grant making. Books not only
underscore the ideals at the heart of GFC’s
work, they bring a compelling vibrancy to
its core.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Speech at Civil Rights March on Washington [August 28, 1963]
“I have a dream that my four little children
will one day live in a nation where they
will not be judged by the color of their
skin, but by the content of their character.”
THE GLOBAL FUND for CHILDREN
Grant Making
As a global grant-making organization, the Global Fund for Children invests
directly in community-based initiatives around the world that address the
special needs of girls, street children, AIDS orphans, child laborers, and other
groups of at-risk children. During the 2001–2002 fiscal year, GFC awarded
$225,000 in grants to thirty-six organizations in twenty countries. This
represents a significant increase over the previous fiscal year, in which grants
totaled $77,600. The increase in the amount of funds awarded has led to a
corresponding increase in the number of young people reached.
GFC’s Approach to Grant Making
The most creative and effective projects
to benefit children and youth are often
generated at the community level, where
financial resources are scarce. The Global
Fund for Children’s grant-making approach
is designed specifically to target and
strengthen small grassroots organizations
that promote youth leadership and improve
education for children who otherwise
would be left behind. GFC’s grants
support nonformal education programs
that integrate basic subjects, such as
literacy, numeracy, and language skills,
with awareness building and training in
reproductive health, hygiene, vocational
skills, environmental issues, technological
literacy, human rights issues, conflict
resolution, and artistic expression.
Even though GFC’s direct funding
relationship with most grantee partners
is normally between one and three years,
GFC believes that effective grant making
requires a long–term view. While its grants
are small—between $500 and $15,000—
they generate an enormous return by
strengthening effective entrepreneurial
programs and contributing to a richer
civil society. Beyond funding specific
programmatic costs, GFC supports capacity
building, provides referrals, evaluates
results, and leverages supplementary funds
from other grant-making organizations.
GFC is always mindful of helping to secure
the viability of its grantee partners into the
future. As a result, it views its relationships
with other grant makers as vital assets
that require cultivation and care. In the
last several years, funders such as the
Emerging Markets Foundation, American
Jewish World Service, and Global Catalyst
Foundation, among others, have awarded
more than $350,000 to GFC grantee
partners. While recruiting funders is
important, GFC’s goal extends beyond
securing new funding streams for its
grantee partners. It also actively seeks
to facilitate networking opportunities and
promote information exchanges between
its grantee partners, other NGOs, and other
grant makers.
Learning from grantee partners about their
work, their operations, and the impact GFC
funding has on the children they serve
is of critical importance. The evaluation
process yields significant information that
enhances communications between GFC
and its grantee partners and informs its
determination of future grant portfolios. In
addition to evaluating outcomes reported
directly by its grantee partners, GFC is
working with indigenous evaluators in the
two countries where eleven of its thirty-six
current projects are located. THAIS in
Mexico and CRY (Child Relief and You) in
India are staffed with well-trained local
professionals who are knowledgeable
about the operations of nongovernmental
organizations, cultural practices, the political
climate, and social issues facing children.
In an ideal world, GFC would engage
indigenous evaluators on each of the
projects it funds. This is only practical and
economically feasible, however, in countries
where GFC has a critical mass of projects
and where the NGO sector is large enough
and sophisticated enough to support
the profession.
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INDERJIT KHURANA, Founder and Executive Director of Ruchika Social Service Orginasation: The Train Platform Schools
“Access to education is a fundamental human right.
When society excludes our children from the education
system, we must bring education to them in the best
way we can, and overcome all hurdles.”
Grant Making
Criteria for Choosing Grantee Partners
Through an extensive network of locally based resources around the world,
the Global Fund for Children actively seeks prospective grantee partners
who are working at the community level. GFC bases its election of grantee
partners on the following criteria:
Service to Underserved or Persecuted
Replicable Model
Populations of Young People
The organization’s programs should
have the potential to be replicated, with
certain adjustments, to other sites, locally,
nationally, and internationally, without
compromising the cultural and social fabric
of the communities served.
The organization should provide services
to underserved or persecuted populations
of young people, including street children,
AIDS orphans, sex workers, child laborers,
hard-to-reach populations in rural areas,
girls, or other vulnerable populations of
young people.
Community Involvement
The organization should embrace the
community as an integral part of its
success; the community should provide
insight, financial support, evaluation, and
inspiration.
Innovation in Learning Methods and/or
Intervention Methods
The organization should demonstrate
effective innovation in teaching basic
education and life skills, including but not
limited to job skills, the arts, multicultural
awareness, conflict resolution, human
rights awareness, health education, and
environmental education.
Leadership and Advocacy
The organization should consistently
demonstrate leadership qualities, including
good management and communication
skills, compassion for the population served,
entrepreneurialism, and resourcefulness;
the organization should make a long-term
impact on policy at the municipal, state, or
national level.
Sustainability
The organization should possess plans
and/or the means to sustain its programs
into the future through income-generating
activities, government support, and/or
support from additional funders.
Youth Participation
The organization should value and
encourage input on programmatic and
management issues from the young people
it serves.
Fiscal Responsibility
The organization should demonstrate a
solid accounting system and the means to
manage its finances.
Social Return on Monetary Investment
The organization should realize a significant
impact relative to GFC’s financial award, as
measured by the number of people affected
by a program and the manner in which their
lives are changed.
The Global Fund for Children does not accept
unsolicited proposals.
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2001–2002 Grant Awards
Africa
CAMPAIGN FOR FEMALE
EDUCATION TRUST
$10,000/546,700 Zimbabwean dollars
Nyanga, Zimbabwe
Executive director: Ann Cotton
[email protected]
Campaign for Female Education Trust (CamFed)
works with rural communities in sub-Saharan
Africa to improve educational opportunities for
girls disadvantaged by poverty. CamFed operates
in partnership with local communities, building
on local experience and resources to create an
environment in which educating girls and young
women is a priority. Participants are encouraged
to secure a livelihood through access to higher
education, vocational training, and microloans.
GFC’s grant to CamFed is supporting
scholarships for sixty girls attending secondary
school, a Safety Net Fund for one hundred
children affected by HIV/AIDS, a mentoring
program, and the operation of CamFed’s CAMA
program, a network of eight hundred girls who
have completed school with CamFed support
and serve as mentors to younger girls in the
program. www.camfed.org
CONQUEST FOR LIFE
$5,000/43,234 rand
Westbury, South Africa
Executive director: Glen Steyn
[email protected]
Conquest for Life is located in a large urban area
near Johannesburg that continues to struggle
from the effects of apartheid and poverty. Living
with extremely high levels of unemployment and
a scarcity of community resources, young people
in this area are especially vulnerable to substance
abuse problems, gang activity, and truancy.
Conquest for Life’s goal is to empower local
young people to become agents of change within
the community. GFC’s grant to Conquest for
Life is helping to sustain the Youth Enrichment
Program, which provides after-school tutoring
and programs on self-image, conflict resolution,
skills development, and social activities.
www.conquest.org.za
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FOUNDATION FOR DEVELOPMENT
OF NEEDY COMMUNITIES
$5,000/8.75 million shillings
2000 grant: $5,000 for CamFed’s project in
Savelugu Nanton District, Ghana
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CHILDREN’S TOWN
$10,000/38 million kwacha
Malambanyama Village, Zambia
Executive director: Moses Zulu
[email protected]
Children’s Town is a school, a skills-training
center, and home to over two hundred former
Zambian street children and AIDS orphans.
All the children participate in running the town
through a rigorous program in which they
learn how to produce food, raise farm animals,
maintain the buildings and surroundings,
and run a general store. GFC’s grant is
providing general support for the operation
of Children’s Town.
1999 and 2000 grants: $13,250 total
Mbale District, Uganda
Bungokho County, Mbale District, Uganda
Executive director: Samuel W. Watulatsu
[email protected]
The Foundation for Development of Needy
Communities (FDNC) provides programs on
youth development and reproductive health,
counseling for street children, girl advancement
programs, recreational activities, farming,
environmental conservation, and, very uniquely,
a brass band. GFC’s grant is helping to complete
the construction of a primary health care center
and is helping to fund programs on reproductive
health, recreational services, cultural education,
and leadership skills. www.fdncuganda.8m.net
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KITEMU INTEGRATED SCHOOL
$4,000/6.93 million shillings
Kampala, Uganda
Executive director: Sserwanga M. Stephen
[email protected]
Kitemu Integrated School is one of the only
Ugandan schools to provide education to
both special-needs and mainstream students.
Offering its services to deaf, mentally challenged,
physically handicapped, orphaned, and low-
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income students, the school recognizes the
lack of attention paid to children from these
groups. GFC’s general-support grant is
funding teacher salaries and the purchase
of educational materials.
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OUR CHILDREN
$4,000/7.857 million leones
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Executive director: Nasserie Carew
[email protected]
A group of Sierra Leonean women in the United
States founded Our Children in the aftermath
of Sierra Leone’s recent civil war, during which
thousands of children were forcibly recruited as
soldiers and exposed to multiple dangers. Many
of these children are now suffering from hunger,
disease, and violence. Our Children provides a
home and educational expenses for six young
girls and provides food and toys to numerous
displacement camps serving over two hundred
children. It also offers accelerated educational
programs to adolescents who had minimal
education during the war. GFC’s grant is funding
tuition expenses and school supplies for thirty
children, renovations to the home’s library, and
salary support. www.ourchildreninc.com
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RUBAGA YOUTH
DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION
$5,000/8.75 million schillings
Kampala, Uganda
Executive director: Geoffrey Steven Kyeyune
[email protected]
Poverty, war, HIV/AIDS, and other injustices
have contributed to the high incidence of
child abuse in Uganda. The Rubaga Youth
Development Association (RYDA) seeks to
improve the standard of living of street children
and out-of-school youth with the goal of
building a sustainable community. GFC’s grant
to RYDA is helping to support the Girl Child
Enhancement Project, a program designed to
teach microenterprise skills to a team of girls
and to prepare them for starting, managing, and
controlling their own businesses.
FOUNDATION FOR DEVELOPMENT OF NEEDY COMMUNITIES
Bungokho County, Mbale District, Uganda
Playing on Key
Tuning his trombone with the precision of
an accomplished musician, fifteen-year-old
Odda prepares for an afternoon concert in
Mbale, Uganda. Two years ago, before being
encouraged to put his youthful energy to use
as a musician, Odda held little hope of escaping
from the cycle of neglect, disease, and abuse
that afflict many of the impoverished children
living in the town of Mbale. Now, equipped
with training, experience, and confidence, Odda
into employment, allowing him to become
a self-sufficient and productive member of
society. More importantly, Odda and his fellow
FDNC is an indigenous nongovernmental
young musicians have found a way to bring
organization that supports participatory
their community closer together, to bridge the
approaches to sustainable community
gaps between young and old, rich and poor,
development and promotes opportunities
and to use music as a means to help people
for young people, the disabled, women, and
communicate and learn from each other.
the elderly. In an area beset by high rates of
First created with instruments donated by
a youth orchestra in the United Kingdom,
Foundation for Development of Needy
Communities (FDNC) formed a brass band in
1996 as a means of channeling the energy
of local young people and of teaching them
marketable skills to be used later in life. Today,
the band consists of seventy-two boys and
girls and has grown to include trumpets, tubas,
saxophones, flutes, and snare drums, among
other instruments. These young musicians
SAKENA YACOOBI, Executive Director of the Afghan Institute of Learning
“When you make education available to children, it is
like giving them new life. It brings hope to their hearts
and a healing to their souls.”
knows that he can translate his musical skills
maintain a busy schedule of music instruction,
practice, and playing for civic celebrations,
community functions, and private events.
Drawing on the cultural importance of music
poverty, HIV/AIDS, drug addiction, child neglect,
unemployment, and juvenile delinquency, the
young people of Mbale are at extreme risk. By
the end of 2002, however, FDNC will open a
new community center—the first of its kind
in the region—dedicated to serving the needs
of children and young people. Members of
the community, young and old, have joined
forces around the community center, donating
materials, ideas, and labor. The center, built in
part with a grant from GFC, will offer primary
health care services, reproductive-health and
HIV/AIDS counseling, prenatal and postnatal
care, recreational activities, and leadership and
skills training classes.
in Ugandan society, the FDNC band’s crowd-
Reflecting on his experience with FDNC, the
pleasing performances generate sixty percent
trumpet player Odda commented, “FDNC
of FDNC’s $80,000 annual budget.
programs...helped me to open my mind
to greater ideas. I feel so good to meet
fellow youth and friends during practice and
performances.” Odda added, “I always feel at
peace in the band.” FDNC’s work has ensured
that children like Odda continue to find support
and motivation to better their own lives, to
take active roles in their communities, and to
appreciate the value of their innate talents.
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SYNAPSE NETWORK CENTER
CHILD RELIEF AND YOU
$4,000/2.995 million francs
$5,000/239,800 rupees
Dakar, Senegal
Executive director: Ciré Kane
[email protected]
New Delhi, India
Executive director: Pervin Varma
[email protected]
Synapse Network Center is a community of
young people dedicated to providing education
and opportunity to the ever-increasing number
of street children in Dakar. Made up largely of
boys, these children grow up in the shadow of
drugs, diseases, delinquency, violence, and street
gangs. They often resort to begging and working
at an early age and thus expose themselves to
various forms of exploitation. GFC’s grant
is funding operational costs associated with
Synapse’s Education Against Exclusion Project,
which focuses on providing basic education to
boys living on the streets. In addition, the project
offers socialization skills and vocational training
and helps integrate the boys into the formal
schooling process upon completion of
the program. www.synapsecenter.org
Child Relief and You (CRY), an Indian charitable
trust founded in 1979, is one of the largest
organizations in India working with children. Its
overriding goal is to restore to deprived Indian
children their basic right to life and a childhood.
CRY serves as a strategic link between those
organizations that have resources and those that
need them. Its important network has enabled
the Global Fund for Children to tap into
innovative community organizations working
with children. GFC’s grant is helping to build
CRY’s endowment fund.
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South Asia
AFGHAN INSTITUTE OF LEARNING
$5,000/300,605 rupees
Jelalabad, Afghanistan
Executive director: Sakena Yacoobi
[email protected]
The Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL)
was founded in 1995 to redress the lack of
educational access for women and girls in
Afghanistan while the Taliban regime was in
power. Along with training teachers and funding
schools and health care services in Afghan
refugee communities in Pakistan, AIL supported
scores of secret home schools for girls living in
Afghanistan, which GFC supported for three
years. Now that AIL is able to operate freely
within Afghanistan, it has expanded its mission
to address the plight of dispossessed boys in
at-risk situations. As targets of recruitment by
extremist religious and political groups, boys
and young men in Afghanistan are among those
most vulnerable to poverty, social dislocation,
and violence. This grant is supporting academic
instruction for three hundred boys in Jelalabad.
www.creatinghope.org/ail.htm
1999, 2000, and 2001 grants: $15,000 total
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EDUCATE THE CHILDREN
$5,000/385,142 rupees
Kathmandu, Nepal
Executive director: Colleen Flynn Thapalia
[email protected]
Educate the Children (ETC) provides
educational opportunities for low-income
children and women in Nepal. Its programs,
which emphasize a multigenerational approach,
include scholarships for indigent children,
rehabilitation of public-school facilities, the
establishment of public kindergartens, and
programs for rural women that incorporate
literacy, health education, and income
generation. Since children’s books in the native
Nepali language are in meager supply, GFC’s
grant to ETC is funding the development,
publication, and distribution of three Nepalilanguage children’s books. Ten-thousand
five-hundred books will be distributed to
thirty-five hundred children and their families.
www.etc-nepal.org
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JEEVA JYOTHI (Everlasting Light)
$5,000/243,739 rupees
Chennai, India
Executive director: Susai Raj
[email protected]
Jeeva Jyothi provides services to families who
work as bonded laborers in Chennai’s rice
mills. Its goal is to break the cycle of poverty
by convincing families to forego the earnings
of their children and by offering education,
vocational training, and other services. GFC’s
grant is supporting Jeeva Jyothi’s four centers,
which provide preschool education, health care,
health education, supplementary foodstuffs,
and school supplies for 210 young children.
www.jeevajyothi.org
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NISHTHA (Dedication)
$10,000/479,600 rupees
Baruipur, India
Executive director: Mina Das
[email protected]
Located in rural West Bengal, Nishtha helps
women and their daughters become selfsufficient by giving them the skills, confidence,
and knowledge necessary to take control of their
lives and be leaders in their villages. Although
focused on neglected and unschooled girl
laborers aged six to sixteen, Nishtha involves
the entire community in its effort to eliminate
child labor and illiteracy through workshops
on gender awareness and equality. GFC’s grant
is supporting the Balika Bahini and Kishori
Bahini leadership programs, which combine
nonformal education and basic health care, and
is providing funds to establish an endowment for
the thirty most promising and neediest girls in
the program.
1999 and 2000 grants: $4,800 total
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PHULKI (Spark)
$5,000/283,600 takas
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Executive director: Suraiya Haque
[email protected]
Phulki has created thirty-five factory-based
child-care centers and nurseries for children aged
two months to six years. These centers largely
serve the children of families who have migrated
from rural areas in search of work and an end
to the desperate poverty they have endured.
The children receive nutritional supplements
and participate in preschool classes and
age-appropriate activities. Phulki also runs an
additional thirty-five child-care and development
centers in low-income communities around
Dhaka. GFC’s grant is providing general support
for Phulki’s child-care programs.
2001–2002 Grant Awards
PRAYAS (To Wish)
$4,000/191,840 rupees
Jaipur, India
Executive director: Jatinder Arora
[email protected]
Prayas provides specialized services to enhance
the innate skills of mentally challenged children
in the slums of Jaipur, motivating them to live
independently while becoming integrated into
mainstream society. Prayas operates a small work
center to provide training in crafts and other
marketable, income-generating activities. This
grant is supporting nutritional supplements for
fifty children and nonrecurring expenses such as
furniture, uniforms, and teaching materials.
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PRERANA (Inspiration)
$3,000/143,850 rupees
Mumbai, India
Executive director: Priti Pravin Patkar
[email protected]
Prerana operates the first night care center in the
world for children of prostitutes. The center was
created after it became apparent that the majority
of these children turned to prostitution, as their
mothers did before them. The center provides
nonformal education, nourishment, bathing
facilities, recreation, a safe place to sleep, and
an alternative to the cycle of poverty and sexual
exploitation. GFC’s grant is supporting the night
care center and a drop-in center for adolescent
girls without shelter who live in danger of being
lured into a life of prostitution.
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PROTECTING ENVIRONMENT AND
CHILDREN EVERYWHERE
$5,000/450,125 rupees
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Executive director: Maureen Seneviratne
[email protected]
Protecting Environment and Children
Everywhere (PEACE) works for the elimination
of child pornography, commercial sexual
exploitation, sexual abuse, and trafficking of
children in Sri Lanka. Targeting children who
have dropped out of school to serve the growing
tourist industry through various types of work,
including prostitution, PEACE offers nonformal
education and vocational training to give young
people the skills they need to secure legitimate
employment. In addition to providing general
program support, GFC’s grant is funding
vocational training programs by supporting
teacher salaries, nutritional supplements, and
transportation for students to and from school.
www.lanka.net/charity/peace
other cities in the state of Tamil Nadu. It
has also secured the release of more than one
thousand children from the looms. This grant is
supporting Bridge School Centers, which provide
educational, social, and emotional assistance
during the transition from the silk looms to
public schools. These centers focus on remedial
education but also instill positive learning habits
and present a healthy school experience.
2000 grant: $5,000
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SEDCO—WOMEN
RUCHIKA SOCIAL SERVICE ORGANISATION:
THE TRAIN PLATFORM SCHOOLS
$9,200/441,232 rupees
Bhubaneswar, India
Executive director: Inderjit Khurana
[email protected]
The Train Platform Schools provide nonformal
education classes to thousands of child laborers
who live on or around train platforms in railroad
stations. Teachers set up informal classrooms on
the railway platforms and give children access
to books, arts and crafts, and music. This grant,
made possible by Mirman School families in Los
Angeles, is supporting the operation of six Train
Platform Schools serving over seven hundred
children. The grant is also being used to build an
endowment to ensure sustainability for the Train
Platform Schools in the future.
DEVELOPMENT CENTER
$4,000/360,100 rupees
Matale, Sri Lanka
Executive director: Nisha Ibrahim
[email protected]
SEDCO, in central Sri Lanka, focuses on
children and women working in the surrounding
tea plantations and rural areas. The goal of the
organization is to prevent child labor, child
abuse, and child neglect—all rampant within the
plantation system. This grant is supporting the
expansion of SEDCO’s children’s programs to
include work in basic literacy, health education,
human rights and child rights education,
English-language classes, and computer
skills training.
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SIKAR GIRLS EDUCATION INITIATIVE—
Since 1999, GFC funding for the Ruchika Social
Service Organisation’s Train Platform Schools
has been made possible by Mirman School
families in Los Angeles, California. Through
readathons held by fourth-grade students each
of the last three years, Mirman School students
have raised more than $17,075 for the Train
Platform Schools.
1997, 1998, 1999, and 2000 grants:
$18,275 total
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RURAL INSTITUTE FOR
DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION
GRAMIN MAHILA SIKSHAN SANSTHAN
$10,000/480,400 rupees
Sikar, India
Executive director: Chain Singh Ayra
The Sikar Girls Education Initiative provides
academic instruction, including classes in the
sciences, liberal arts, and computer studies, for
rural girls. The program’s goal is to enable the
girls to lead meaningful and prosperous lives
by making a significant contribution to the
well-being of their families and to society at
large. This grant is providing seed capital for a
computer skills lab.
$4,000/191,840 rupees
Kanchipuram, India
Executive director: S. Jeyaraj
[email protected]
The Rural Institute for Development Education
has been a leading advocate for the eradication of
child labor in the silk looms of Kanchipuram and
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MAIS
(Movimiento para el Auto-Desarrollo Internacional de la Solidaridad)
Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
MAIS’s Training for Life community center is
a supplementary school program that serves
sixty-two boys and girls in the Limonera
Republic’s resort town of Puerto Plata is hardly
a vacation. Elvia’s parents have separated and
her mother has chosen to settle with her new
husband and two young sons. Elvia must live
with her grandmother, who, as a single older
woman, is hard-pressed to make ends meet. At
such a young age, Elvia, along with hundreds of
other impoverished children in her community,
must make a difficult choice between pursuing
her education or earning a living in order to
support herself. Sadly, with little incentive
or encouragement to stay in poorly funded
schools and few legitimate opportunities to
earn money, girls such as Elvia are easily
lured into Puerto Plata’s lucrative sex tourism
industry. Defenseless to the physical and sexual
abuse that accompanies prostitution, these
times a week either before or after their parttime formal school day. In addition to instruction
in core curriculum subjects such as writing,
reading, mathematics, and science, the children
participate in workshops on human rights and
the special rights of children and can take
advantage of vocational and craft workshops.
The MAIS staff works closely with the children’s
families and teachers in an effort to reinforce
the value of staying in school and pursuing
productive opportunities in life. Elvia, who has
participated in MAIS’s program for more than
a year, proudly says that she has learned much
in the academic areas of math, history, and
science, but more importantly, Elvia reports,
“I have learned how to depend on and take care
of myself.”
young children find themselves in one of the
MAIS is part of the worldwide ECPAT (Ending
most vulnerable and exploited groups of Puerto
Child Prostitution, Pornography and Trafficking)
Plata’s society.
network. With members in more than fifty
Fortunately for Elvia, the community-based
organization MAIS (translated into English
as the Movement for the International SelfDevelopment of Solidarity) has provided her
with an alternative to the commercial sex trade.
Founded in 1998, MAIS strives to motivate
children to stay in school and tries to prevent
initial or continued sexual exploitation by
offering academic support and social services
to at-risk and exploited youth. Operating on
an annual budget equivalent to $28,000,
MAIS focuses on preventative work, providing
children with the skills and confidence that
allow them to create social opportunities for
themselves without resorting to prostitution.
Although the young people who participate in
MAIS are not usually former sex workers, many
of them are victims of sexual and physical
abuse inflicted at home or on the streets.
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countries, ECPAT advocates for the elimination
of child prostitution, child sex tourism, child
pornography, and trafficking of children for
sexual purposes. In September 2002, a teenage
MAIS participant represented all ECPAT’s Latin
American partners at the ECPAT board of
directors’ meeting.
JANE GOODALL
For thirteen-year-old Elvia, life in the Dominican
neighborhood of Puerto Plata. These children
“Young people, when informed and empowered,
when they realize that what they do truly makes a
difference, can indeed change the world. They are
changing it already.”
A Shield against Exploitation
2001–2002 Grant Awards
East Asia
THAI YOUTH AIDS
PREVENTION PROJECT
AYUDA Y SOLIDARIDAD CON LAS NIÑAS DE
LA CALLE (Help and Solidarity with Street Girls)
CAMBODIAN VOLUNTEERS FOR
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
$5,000/218,800 baht
$4,000/37,935 pesos
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Executive director: Amporn Boontan
[email protected]
Mexico City, Mexico
Executive director: Ana Teresa Anton
de Williamson
[email protected]
$9,000/34.3 million riel
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Executive director: Sothea Arun
[email protected]
Cambodian Volunteers for Community
Development (CVCD) is dedicated to improving
the lives of Cambodia’s poor children, especially
poor urban youth, prostitutes, street children,
and amputees. The organization provides
education and social programs such as Englishlanguage classes, computer skills training, tree
planting, and neighborhood cleanups. It is one of
the few organizations in Cambodia that provides
literacy training in the local Khmer language.
CVCD also encourages volunteerism in exchange
for educational opportunities and health care.
GFC’s grant is helping to support the expansion
of Khmer literacy programs and capacity building
for the organization.
1999 and 2000 grants: $10,000 total
The Thai Youth AIDS Prevention Project
(TYAP) offers innovative, youth-based
HIV/AIDS prevention programs to young
people in northern Thailand. TYAP’s overall
goal is to curb the impact of the AIDS epidemic
by encouraging self-protective behavior and by
reducing discrimination toward people living
with HIV/AIDS. GFC’s grant to TYAP is
funding one of several leadership programs that
TYAP offers. The program, Leadership Training
for Social Change, recruits vocational-school
and university students for comprehensive
training on HIV/AIDS transmission prevention,
sex education, negotiation skills, drug abuse
prevention, leadership skills, and team building.
www.tyap.net
Ayuda y Solidaridad con las Niñas de la Calle
(Ayuda) supports three centers in Mexico City
that provide safe and nurturing environments
for girls aged eight to eighteen who are victims
of violence, drug addiction, and prostitution.
Through its projects, Ayuda provides
occupational and job skills training that enables
the girls to find work in areas other than the
manual labor typically assigned to young women.
Ayuda is one of the few local programs that
offers on-site computer training to the girls
participating in the program. GFC’s grant to
Ayuda is supporting the purchase of educational
supplies and a salary for a computer teacher to
train sixty-five girls.
1997 and 1998 grants: $1,500 total
2000 grant: $4,000
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FRIENDS FOR STREET CHILDREN
$8,000/120 million dong
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Executive director: Thomas Tran Van Soi
[email protected]
Friends for Street Children (FFSC) is one of the
few nongovernmental organizations working
with children in Vietnam. FFSC’s Le Minh
Xuan Development Center provides services to
children who have dropped out of school to help
support their families and offers basic education,
counseling services, and family programs.
Students receive psychotherapy and take classes
on personal hygiene, finances, and job readiness,
as well as mathematics, Vietnamese, and the
natural sciences. GFC’s grant is providing general
support and capacity building.
2000 grant: $3,000
CASA DAYA (Casa Dar y Amar/House of
Latin America and the Caribbean
ANICA (Collectivo de Apoyo a Niñas Callejeras/
Collective for Support of Street Girls)
$5,000/45,184 pesos
Mexico City, Mexico
Executive director: Alma Rosa Colín
[email protected]
ANICA is the only organization in Mexico City
that brings sexual and reproductive health education directly to girls and young women living in
makeshift shelters within city parks. They, and
the thousands of other girls living on the streets,
are particularly vulnerable to violence, drugs,
prostitution, rape, and sexually transmitted diseases. Through street education workshops on
sexuality, addiction, pregnancy prevention, and
other topics, ANICA enables the girls to take
charge of their lives and ultimately to enter a
group home, return to their community or family, or live independently off the street. GFC’s
grant is supporting workshops on sexual and
reproductive health and responsibility for two
hundred girls.
Giving and Love)
$4,000/37,935 pesos
Mexico City, Mexico
Executive director: Guillermina Guevara
[email protected]
Casa Daya provides care and education for
runaway street mothers aged thirteen to twentyone and their babies. To help these mothers
become healthy, independent members of
society, this program provides a structured and
nurturing environment in which the girls receive
psychotherapy and vocational training and can
participate in workshops on self-esteem and
health education. GFC’s grant to Casa Daya is
funding materials and a stipend for a teacher to
continue a candle-making program that provides
girls and women with an opportunity to learn
business and marketing skills.
2000 grant: $4,000
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2001–2002 Grant Awards
CEDECOAC (Casa Educativa Ecologica de la
educational and vocational programs in lowincome Brazilian communities. Through its
Information Technology and Citizens Rights
Schools, CDI offers computer skills classes
as a tool to improve civic involvement and
mobilize community residents to play an active
role in bringing about positive change in their
communities. The schools also serve as platforms
for the promotion of civic participation, ecology,
health, human rights, nonviolence, and digital
literacy. GFC’s grant is funding the initial
costs and maintenance for two CDI schools
within two underserved communities in Rio de
Janiero. The two schools serve more than eight
hundred young people aged six to eighteen and
participate in an Inter-American Development
Bank initiative on microenterprise in Brazil.
reading, writing, social skills, and criticalthinking skills. GFC’s grant is supporting
the purchase of materials and salaries for the
project, which is located in the Bañado Tacumbu
neighborhood of Asunción, a community
dominated by extreme poverty, single-parent
homes, alcohol and domestic abuse, and a high
level of unemployment. www.projoven.org
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www.cdi.org.br
CHILDREN FIRST
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Founded in 1990, Projeto Axé is committed to
offering an arts-based education as a means of
fostering self-motivated transformation in the
lives of children and adolescents living on the
streets of Salvador de Bahía. Through outreach
work on the streets, training programs, and
support work with families, Projeto Axé has
expanded the opportunities available to the
disenfranchised children of Salvador. Among
the programs Projeto Axé offers to young people
is a mobile education-and-support center that
circulates throughout the streets of the city.
GFC’s grant supports literacy workshops, first
aid, and health education for street children
through the mobile unit. www.projetaxe.org.br
Costa Oaxaqueña/Educative Ecological Home
of the Oaxacan Coast)
$5,000/47,382 pesos
Oaxaca, Mexico
Executive director: Lionel Ehinger
[email protected]
CEDECOAC was created in 1997 as a refuge
for children whose only other option was to live
on the streets. Its mission and goals were based
on IPODERAC, a residential school for boys in
Pueblo, Mexico, which GFC previously funded.
Despite the model’s successful implementation by
IPODERAC, CEDECOAC ceased operating this
past spring due to insufficient funding.
$5,000/227,750 Jamaican dollars
MAIS (Movimiento para el Auto-Desarrollo
St. Catherine, Jamaica
Executive director: Claudette Richardson-Pious
[email protected]
Internacional de la Solidaridad/Movement for the
International Self-Development of Solidarity)
Children First seeks to remedy the effects of
poverty on street children and at-risk youth in
the Caribbean while providing children with
critical life skills, including vocational training,
that they are otherwise unable to attain. In St.
Catherine, many children live in households
that lack even the most basic amenities, such
as water and lighting. They must therefore beg
or work for their survival. GFC is providing
general support for Children First’s program
in Jamaica, which serves fifty at-risk youth
and street children. The program offers
three-month courses in barbering, cosmetology,
and photography, along with general remedialeducation classes and training in small-business
operations. The pilot of this program saw thirty
children successfully start small businesses or
enter into apprenticeships.
Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
Executive director: Maria Josefina Paulino
[email protected]
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COMMITTEE FOR DEMOCRACY IN
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
$14,000/33,143 real
Rio de Janiero, Brazil
Executive director: Rodrigo Baggio
[email protected]
The Committee for Democracy in Information
Technology (CDI) develops and provides
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$5,000/81,500 pesos
MAIS was the first organization in the
Dominican Republic to work toward the
prevention of child abuse and child prostitution.
The organization operates an after-school
program that provides academic support to
children falling behind in school and strengthens
their general knowledge in reading, writing,
math, and culture. Targeting children aged
nine to sixteen, this project seeks to impart
an important core education and to motivate
students to stay in the formal school system.
GFC’s grant is helping to support teacher salaries
and educational materials.
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PROJOVEN (For Youth)
$5,000/24.452 million guaranies
Asunción, Paraguay
Executive director: Maureen Herman
[email protected]
ProJoven is dedicated to helping Paraguayan
youth in conflict with the law find alternatives
to criminal behavior. ProJoven’s Literacy and Life
Skills for Youth in Danger Project enrolls fifty
adolescents aged thirteen to sixteen in a yearlong,
highly interactive course that incorporates
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PROJETO AXÉ
$5,000/11,800 real
Salvador de Bahía, Brazil
Executive director: Cesare La Rocca
[email protected]
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SOLAS Y UNIDAS (Alone and United)
$5,000/18,150 nuevo sol
Lima, Peru
Executive director: Sonia Borja
[email protected]
Solas y Unidas was founded by Sonia Borja, its
executive director, and other women and children
in Lima, Peru, who are living with HIV/AIDS.
The group’s mission is to improve the quality
of education available to the children of HIVpositive women, most of whom suffer social
and economic discrimination as a result of their
illness. The Solas y Unidas curriculum includes
basics such as reading and writing, in addition
to programs on culture and the arts through
theater, puppets, painting, and drawing. The
children’s mothers participate in Solas y Unidas
job-training programs. GFC’s grant is funding
materials, equipment, salary support, and
nutritional supplements for the thirty children in
the education program.
2001–2002 Grant Awards
September 11, 2001
Emergency Grants
SAYA (South Asian Youth Action)
In response to the tragic events of
September 11, 2001, the Global Fund for
Children awarded the following emergency
grants. The awards were fully funded
through royalties from Shakti for
Children books.
Queens, New York
Executive director: Annetta Seecharran
[email protected]
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AFGHAN INSTITUTE OF LEARNING
$5,000/320,500 rupees
North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan
Executive director: Sakena Yacoobi
[email protected]
In the fall of 2001, as hundreds of thousands
of refugees fled from Afghanistan into Pakistan,
GFC awarded an emergency grant to the
Afghan Institute of Learning to help fund the
opening of twenty schools serving six hundred
Afghan refugee boys in UNHCR camps in the
North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, near
Peshawar. GFC’s objectives in awarding this grant
were to help boys living in refugee camps achieve
some semblance of routine in their lives and to
impart a curriculum based on tolerance, diversity,
and conflict resolution.
www.creatinghope.org/ail.htm
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THE ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION:
ROBIN HOOD RELIEF FUND
$2,500
New York, New York
Executive director: David Saltzman
[email protected]
The Robin Hood Foundation was founded
with the single objective of ending poverty in
New York City. The foundation established a
separate fund, the Robin Hood Relief Fund, to
ensure that the needs of lower-income victims
of the September 11 tragedy were met in the
short term and will continue to be met in the
long term. Donations to the fund are aiding
families of firefighters, police officers, and other
rescue workers, in addition to cafeteria workers,
maintenance workers, and thousands of others.
www.robinhood.org
$2,500
Based in Queens, New York, SAYA offers
programs at its drop-in center in Elmhurst
and at five New York City public high schools.
Founded in 1996, SAYA’s mission is to promote
self-esteem, provide opportunities for growth
and development, and build cultural, social,
and political awareness among young people of
South Asian background. SAYA members, aged
twelve to nineteen, are from countries as diverse
as Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Guyana, India,
Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Trinidad and Tobago.
Following September 11, SAYA hosted a forum
for young people in the South Asian community.
The forum resulted in an action plan that
engaged SAYA and other New York City youths
in a peace and unity initiative. www.saya.org
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WASHINGTON AREA
WOMEN’S FOUNDATION:
RAPID RESPONSE FUND
$2,500
Washington, D.C.
Executive director: Anne Mosle
[email protected]
The Washington Area Women’s Foundation’s
Rapid Response Fund was created to help
support nonprofit organizations that are
helping low-income women and girls affected
by the September 11 attack on the Pentagon
and the subsequent economic impact. Funds
are directed specifically to organizations that
focus on the long-term issues of healing and
recovery and those that provide economic and
emotional support to women and girls who
are missing parents or other family members,
or whose families are in economic turmoil.
www.wawf.org
Learning and Evaluation Partners
CHILD RELIEF AND YOU
$11,700/284,440 rupees
Mumbai, India
Executive director: Previn Varma
[email protected]
For more than twenty-two years, Child Relief
and You (CRY) has funded and invested
resources in hundreds of child development
initiatives throughout India. CRY also provides
evaluation and monitoring services to other
nongovernmental organizations working in India.
As an evaluation consultant, CRY follows the
same sophisticated evaluation model it applies
to its own program partners. First, CRY’s local,
professionally trained evaluators make site
visits to each program to assess its operational
effectiveness. CRY then evaluates the program’s
financial accountability and record keeping. Last,
it assesses the program’s nonfinancial needs with
respect to training, capacity building, and other
requirements. GFC has contracted with CRY to
monitor and evaluate all of its current projects
in India, which include Jeeva Jyothi; Prayas;
Prerana; Ruchika Social Service Organisation:
Train Platform Schools; Rural Institute for
Development Education; and Sikar Girls
Education Initiative. www.cry.org
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THAIS SOCIAL
DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANTS
$3,000/573,300 pesos
Mexico City, Mexico
Executive director: Norma Barreiro
[email protected]
THAIS is a nongovernmental organization
(NGO) that provides program monitoring
and evaluation services to local, national, and
international NGOs operating in Mexico. In
addition, THAIS offers clients a wide array of
management consulting and training services
and also produces resource materials for
young people about HIV/AIDS and effective
community involvement. THAIS’s professional
staff represents a range of multidisciplinary
experiences grounded in the field of social
development. THAIS’s methodology for program
monitoring and evaluation closely mirrors CRY’s
approach, which is described above. GFC has
contracted with THAIS to monitor and evaluate
its three current projects in Mexico: ANICA;
Ayuda y Solidaridad con las Niñas de la Calle;
and Casa Daya.
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her parents’ belief that educating girls was
unnecessary prevented her from attending
school with any regularity. “Before, [my parents]
wouldn’t even let me study,” Mina reports.
“But I started going to Nishtha anyway. I told
my parents that if they took care of me the way
Finding Her Voice
Before, my life was like that of a caged bird
that always fidgets in the cage thinking about
getting out and flying.
they took care of my brothers, then I would
have an equal chance to be able to support
them and myself when I’m grown up.”
As a Kishori Bahini, Mina teaches and mentors
groups of Balika Bahinis, younger girls who
Fifteen-year-old Mina Naskar speaks for many
will later become Kishori Bahinis themselves,
girls in her village of Umarpota in eastern India
continuing the tradition of activism and
whose lives have been changed by Nishtha.
self-empowerment that Nishtha has helped
Founded more than twenty-five years ago
to establish. Through their work in their
as a village charity club for women, Nishtha
communities, Mina and her peers have found
has evolved into a grassroots movement
the means to express themselves and a way
that promotes education and basic rights for
to be successfully heard, recognized, and
hundreds of girls and women. In a society
respected in a society that has in the past all
where girls have traditionally been confined
but ignored the opinions and contributions of
to household duties without receiving the
women. In addition to studying, Nishtha children
recognition, appreciation, or opportunities
repair roads and other public structures; they
afforded to the boys of the community, Nishtha
counsel families about the dangers of early
has made enormous progress in changing the
marriages and pregnancies for young girls;
gender biases that have clouded the destinies
they intervene in situations of spousal or child
of women for generations.
abuse; and they have even “bullied” fathers into
exercising proper sanitation habits. Reflecting
With an annual operating budget equivalent to
on her role in saving a friend from an early
$128,000 and with centers in more than sixty
marriage, fifteen-year-old Champa said, “It was
villages in rural West Bengal, Nishtha involves
amazing that our elders were taking advice
entire communities in its educational and
from us, that they listened to us and eventually
training activities aimed at eliminating gender
changed their minds. We actually stopped a
inequality, illiteracy, and child labor. Through
child marriage, and we’re very proud of that.”
an integrated program combining nonformal
education, basic health care, and social
Nishtha’s commitment to teaching girls
activism, girls gain the skills and confidence
self-sufficiency through education and
that enable them to claim community roles
confidence building gives young people new,
equal to those of their male counterparts. For
powerful female role models in the village and
example, Nishtha classes—which are available
encourages every young girl to believe that her
to both girls and boys and even to older women
dreams can take flight.
who did not have the opportunity to attend
school in their youth—include reading, math,
geography, and art. Health lessons teach young
women to care for their bodies, and children
learn proper habits of hygiene that they then
take home to their families. Both girls and boys
participate equally in community-development
activities such as the building of roads and
irrigation canals. As volunteers and teachers
are in short supply here, older girls known as
Kishori Bahini manage many of the activities
and classes, learning important leadership
skills that help diminish the traditional roles
of superiority and subservience that divide
genders in most communities.
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Until Mina started going to the Nishtha
center in Umarpota, her household duties and
Baruipur, West Bengal, India
MAHATMA GANDHI
“We must be the change we wish to see in the world.”
NISHTHA
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Community Education and Outreach
The Global Fund for Children’s community education and outreach efforts
directly support the organization’s overall mission of advancing the human
rights of young people. Applying the principles of social marketing, GFC’s
community education and outreach program is designed to affect attitudes
and actions concerning specific child-related issues within three primary
target groups: young readers, current donors, and prospective donors. The
dynamic core of GFC’s education and outreach program is its children’sbook-publishing venture, Shakti for Children. The books have wide appeal to
audiences of all ages and are GFC’s single most effective tool in generating
interest in the issues and themes presented in Shakti for Children books
and in the organization’s work on behalf of vulnerable young people around
the world. For educators and group leaders, GFC creates complementary
resource materials that encourage young readers to question and explore
cultures and customs beyond their own.
Shakti for Children: A Message for All
Evoking the Hindi word for “empowerment,”
Shakti for Children creates books and
resource guides that give children insight
into diversity while presenting the many
common experiences that young people
around the world share. Three core principles
guide the development of the books. All
Shakti for Children books depict positive
media images, promote multiculturalism, and
integrate the child’s perspective into
the text.
Over the years, Shakti for Children books
have been favorably reviewed in prestigious
literary publications, including Kirkus
Reviews, the School Library Journal, and
the Horn Book. Shakti for Children books
have also received a number of high-profile
awards. For example, Extraordinary Girls
was selected by the Ms. Foundation for
Women as the official book of 2002 Take
Our Daughters To Work® Day.
Since the debut of its first book, Children
from Australia to Zimbabwe, in 1996, the
Shakti for Children collection has grown to
ten titles, including one Spanish-language
translation. In the last year alone, a revised
edition of Children from Australia to
Zimbabwe was published and two new
books were released: Back to School and
Animal Friends.
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Community Education and Outreach
A Social Enterprise Model
Creating Knowledge
Books for Kids
Foundation grants are vital to the
development, production, and dissemination
of all Shakti for Children titles. In particular,
the W. K. Kellogg Foundation and the Flora
Family Foundation have been instrumental
in the growing success of the Shakti for
Children book-publishing venture. Their
generous support has funded the research
and development of most of the books.
Through a grant from the W. K. Kellogg
Foundation, GFC had an opportunity to
partner with the Frank Porter Graham Child
Development Institute at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill to evaluate
several Shakti for Children books and
associated programs implemented in three
North Carolina public schools between 1999
and 2001. This evaluation demonstrated that
Shakti for Children books are effective tools
in several key areas, such as introducing
young people to the many things they have
in common with children around the world,
pointing out some of the differences that
exist among people worldwide, increasing
young people’s desire to learn more about
other cultures, and providing them with
some materials and ideas for furthering
their education about cultural diversity.
However, GFC also learned how it could
strengthen its approach to teaching the
value and meaning of cultural diversity.
These lessons include:
The Global Fund for Children’s Books for
Kids program donates Shakti for Children
books and materials to community-based
literacy groups worldwide. It has been an
integral component of the Global Fund for
Children since 1996, when three copies
of Children from Australia to Zimbabwe
were donated to each public elementary
school in North Carolina. Complementing
GFC’s grant-making program and its
education and outreach mission, Books for
Kids assists community organizations in
expanding their educational resources as
well as facilitating dialogue about diversity
and multiculturalism. Books for Kids
specifically targets local groups that focus
on literacy issues for children and families
and that demonstrate a pressing need
for educational materials. By identifying
nonprofit and grassroots projects that
typically do not receive government funding,
GFC hopes to reach children who may
not otherwise have access to new and
quality books.
Another important alliance is a publishing
partnership between the Global Fund for
Children and Charlesbridge Publishing, a
for-profit children’s-book publisher. This
innovative alliance gives GFC the creative
freedom to develop new books and reach
an ever-expanding audience of children.
Shakti for Children maintains its identity
as an imprint of Charlesbridge Publishing,
which in turn provides editorial direction
and design, production, and marketing
expertise. This partnership allows GFC to
apply a portion of the proceeds it receives
from the sale of Shakti for Children books
to the support of community-based groups
around the world.
Shakti for Children could not have
achieved such levels of success without
the dedication, talent, and generosity of
the photographers whose work colors
and enlivens the pages of each book.
Photographers John D. Ivanko, Elaine
Little, Jon Warren, Sean Sprague, and Nik
Wheeler, among others, and stock photo
houses Woodfin Camp, Photo Researchers,
and Network Aspen are regular contributors
to Shakti for Children. By capturing
compelling and positive images of children,
their work is making a lasting impact on
young people across the globe.
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•
exploring the local diversity that children
experience on a daily basis;
•
introducing the idea that all cultures are
continually changing and interdependent;
•
understanding different sets of values
(e.g., the children’s, their society’s, other
societies’); and
•
providing opportunities for children to
make positive changes in their schools
and larger communities.
The overwhelming success of this
evaluation project resulted in a grant of
over $300,000 from the William T. Grant
Foundation to the Frank Porter Graham
Child Development Institute for the purpose
of expanding this area of study. A copy of
this evaluation is posted on GFC’s Web site,
www.globalfundforchildren.org/shakti_for_
children/overview.htm.
To date, more than 45,000 books, with a
retail value of $600,000, have been donated
to organizations and programs promoting
children’s literacy. Among the groups
receiving Shakti for Children books through
the Books for Kids program this past year
are Room to Read, a nonprofit literacy
organization that helps local communities
in Nepal and Vietnam build schools and
libraries. Coinciding with the 2002 Winter
Olympics, Books for Kids made several
hundred copies of Let the Games Begin
available to prominent university basketball
coaches, including Mike Krzyzewski at
Duke University and Quin Snyder at the
University of Missouri–Columbia. They and
their colleagues in turn donated the books
to programs serving disadvantaged children
in their areas.
Shakti for Children Books
Animal Friends
Back to School
Children from Australia to Zimbabwe
Come Out and Play
Extraordinary Girls
Let the Games Begin
To Be a Kid/Ser Niño
Xanadu: The Imaginary Place
Shakti for Children
Resource Guides
Raising Children to Become Caring
Contributors to the World
Extraordinary Activities for
Extraordinary Girls
Creating Xanadu: A Resource Guide for
Creating the Ideal World
THE GLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN 21
Donors List
July 1, 2001–June 30, 2002
The Global Fund for Children receives support from a wide range of
donors, including individuals, family foundations, national foundations, and
corporations. GFC recognizes all of its donors for their generosity and for
affirming its mission to expand opportunities for children around the world.
INDIVIDUALS
Anonymous (1)
Ellen and Rex Adams
Maya Ajmera
Richa and Ravi Ajmera
Gerald Altbach
Emily H. Altschul
Barbara and Bill Ascher
Constance and Joseph Attanasio
Deborah Attanasio
Katherine and Paul Attanasio
Stacey Attanasio
Jocelyn Balaban
Katherine Bell
Lewis W. Bernard
Cary Bickley and Yuri Zeltser
Elinor and Peter Bickley
Dena Blank
Lisa Bloom
Ellen and Steve Bresky
Carol Lynn Buchman
Rachel Burnett and Evan McDonnell
Karen Carrey
Jay Chaudhuri
Victoria Cho Choi and Seung-Ho Choi
Candace and Burton Corliss
Darsha R. Davidoff and Donald A. Drumright
Jodi and Mike Detjen
Leslie Dick and Peter Wollen
Ronald Dick
Dennis Dixon
Dorothy Dixon
Jeanne Donovan and Richard B. Fisher
Cheryl L. Dorsey
Constance and Arthur Driver
Suzanne Duryea and Timothy Waidmann
Matt Elson
Rosemary and Alain Enthoven
Sarah Epstein
Lillian Felper
G. and K. Ferdinandsen
Lynn and Greg Fields
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Jenny Fisher and Richard R. Purtich
Kimberly Ann Foster
Sandy and Paul Frank
John Hope Franklin
Helen and Karl Frykman
Nella P. and Paul Fulton
Valerie Gardner and Jonathan Tiemann
Linda and Fred Gaylord
Susan and Chuck Gaylord
Juliette Gimon
Barbara and Benjamin Ginther
Marcia Glenn
Barbara and Stanley Glick
Melissa Green
Beverly Purcell Guerra and
Fernando A. Guerra
David Haddad
Diane and Sheldon Halpern
William H. Harris, Jr.
Nancy and Philip Harter
Alicia and Matt Hawk
Esther B. Hewlett
Mary Hewlett
Sally Hewlett
Jennifer Hinman and Michael Moody
Lisa and Frank Hirsch
Jennifer Hodges and Alexander Fisher
Richard Hofman
Judy and Jameel Hourani
Vicki Hufnagel
Iara Lee and George Gund, III
Joann and Martin Lee
Valeria Lee
Ka-Ron and Lennart Lehman
Alton Leib
Lisa and Jon Leonoudakis
Sui May and Herbert Li
Teri-jo Lindsey
Suzanne and Edward Liptrap
Suzanne Hertzberg Liptrap
Dani Engel Lisnow and Robert Lisnow
Laura and Mike Luger
Andrea and Ivan Lustig
Denise and Alan Lyons
Miranda Magagnini and M. B. G. Pilkington
Lindsey Heard-Maloney and Stuart Maloney
Students of the Maret School
Jimena P. Martinez and
Michael J. Hirschhorn
Wende Phifer Mate and Lowell M. Mate
Mary Patterson McPherson
Constance Meyer and
Stuart J. P. Spottiswoode
Stephen Miller
Patricia Hughes Mills and Michael Mills
Nancy Welch Mirman and Alan Mirman
Debra J. Moses and Robert A. Mazer
Patricia and Kenneth Moy
Florabel and Umesh Mullick
Joye Newman and Larry Paul
Kay Nia and Mahmoud Fakhari
Andrew Okun
Lori and Gregg Ireland
Asha Pabla and Raj Rajaratnam
Miriam and Chris Parel
Kelly Pfeifer
Sandra Pinnavaia and Guy Moszkowski
Anne and Gary Pokoik
Yolanda and Edwin Jacobs
Patricia Jacobs-Pilette
Mary Phillips Quinn and
Michael Quinn
Dipti and Shashank Kalra
Namrita Kapur
Sarane Katz
Nannerl and Robert Keohane
Stanley Kohn
Barbara Kohnen and Jim Adriance
Ann Korban
Herbert Kramer
Flora and Milton Krisiloff
Adele Richardson Ray
Kristen Rechberger
Patricia Rosenfield
Larry Rosenthal
Nadine and Edward Rosenthal
Jennifer and Mark Rubin
Patricia and Myron Sherman
Elaine Shifrin
Joan Shifrin and Michael Faber
Beth Quillen Thomas
Alexander Trowbridge
Kelly and Mark Turner
GIFT FUNDS
Mal Warwick
Toni and Edward Wexler
Alison Whalen and Steven Marenberg
Frederick B. Whittemore
Sandy and John H.T. Wilson
Lee and Sam Wood
Laura Shapiro Young and David Young
Yuri and Yakov Zeltser
Mark Zimsky
CORPORATIONS
Charlesbridge Publishing
Condor Ventures
Danya International
Fatima Medical Clinic
IonIdea
R & M Enterprises
Rampart Investment Management
Telcom Ventures
Wilbur Properties
Wild Planet Toys
FOUNDATIONS
Bank of America Foundation
Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation
Blumenthal Foundation
Bridgemill Foundation
The Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation
Emanuel & Anna Cohen Foundation
Flora Family Foundation
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Global Catalyst Foundation
Goldman Sachs Foundation*
Helen Hotze Haas Foundation
Teresa and H. John Heinz III Family Fund
W. K. Kellogg Foundation
Steven and Michele Kirsch Foundation*
The McKnight Foundation
The Omidyar Foundation
* Gifts committed in 2001–2002 to be awarded
in fiscal year 2002–2003
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund:
Ethan Grossman Family Fund
Lacovara Family Fund
Robert Stillman Charitable Fund
Laura and Gary Lauder Philanthropic Fund of
the Jewish Community Endowment Fund
GIFTS IN HONOR OF
Sara and Guli Arshad, Shehime Arshad,
and Yasmin Arshad from Alison and
Shergul Arshad
Children’s Teachers of Tenacre Country Day
School from Ellen and John Giannuzzi
Claremont McKenna College Track and Field
from Stephen M. Miller-Story House
Ellie Clelland from Michael R. Chertok
Faculty and Staff of Noble and Greenough
School from Zach Cohen and family
Faculty and Staff of Tenacre Country Day
School from Maddy Cohen and family
Amy Manchester from Raphael D’Amato
Karin Sheets from Judith and Bayard Wilson
MARY HEWLETT, Middle-school student in Palo Alto, California
The Overbrook Foundation
The Skoll Community Fund
Stanley S. Shuman Family Foundation
Smith Richardson Foundation
Tosa Foundation
The John Whitehead Foundation
“It is important to educate children because when
we are old and gray, they are the ones who will be
running the countries and making the decisions.”
Catherine and Rony Shimony
Roberta Shintani
Rona Silkiss and Neil Jacobstein
Neera and Rajendra Singh
Fran and Jeffrey Solomon
Joy Javits Stewart
Peter Strugatz
Sarah Strunk and Kent Lewis
Delia Swan and Keith Meyer
I N - K I N D S U P P O RT
Jagdish and Guriq Basi
Fannie Mae
Moore & Van Allen, PLLC
Elizabeth Station
M AT C H I N G - G I F T P R O G R A M S
Adam, Harkness & Hill
The Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation
Carnegie Foundation
Flora Family Foundation
The Overbrook Foundation
Speer, Leeds & Kellogg
THE GLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN 23
Financial Highlights
The Global Fund for Children experienced remarkable financial growth
during the 2001–2002 fiscal year. GFC’s operating budget nearly doubled to
approximately $850,000, which in turn allowed significant expansion in both
of its program areas: grant making and community education and outreach.
Because GFC does not accept government funds, this growth was achieved
solely through investments from individuals and foundations that share the
organization’s mission.
GFC’s programmatic costs in fiscal year 2001–2002 totaled $610,765. This
amount fueled GFC’s grant making, which supported twenty-six organizations
in twenty-one countries; research and development for Shakti for Children’s
growing list of books; as well as other programmatic expenditures. General,
administrative, and fund-raising costs were 21 percent of GFC’s total
budget—below the average for nonprofit organizations.
At the same time, GFC was able to expand its organizational infrastructure.
Through the generous support of the Omidyar Foundation, GFC added
three staff positions that improve its capacity to attract new resources and
disseminate its central messages to key constituencies, including a director
of development, a director of community education and outreach, and an
administrative officer. Because of the Omidyar Foundation’s support, GFC
was able to deepen its organizational strength and provide operational
stability for the long term without touching essential program resources.
This investment will allow GFC to continue to increase its funding base at a
rapid pace so that programmatic expansion can continue for the benefit of
the children GFC reaches.
GFC’s work is based in sound business practices. Significantly, the
organization experienced healthy growth during fiscal year 2001–2002
while maintaining an operating surplus. By adhering to fiscally conservative
principles, GFC has kept its growth measured, controlled, and strategic.
While its vision may be idealistic, GFC’s financial health, especially during
periods of economic uncertainty, speaks to the effectiveness of these
principles and allows GFC to face the future confident that it will continue
to reach greater numbers of vulnerable children while maintaining
a solid and strong financial base.
A full audited financial report can be found on GFC’s Web site: www.globalfundforchildren.org.
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Statement of Financial Position
June 30, 2002
Assets
Current Assets
Cash and cash equivalents
$ 204,267
Accounts receivable
5,000
Prepaid expenses
16,016
Total current assets
225,283
Property and equipment
10,127
Total assets
$ 235,410
Liabilities and Net Assets
Liabilities
Accounts payable
$
Accrued vacation
5,251
8,952
Total liabilities
14,203
Net assets
Unrestricted net assets
135,647
Temporarily restricted net assets
85,560
Total net assets
221,207
Total liabilities and net assets
$ 235,410
Statement of Activities
For the Year Ended June 30, 2002
UNRESTRICTED
TEMPORARILY
RESTRICTED
TOTAL
Revenues and Other Support
Gifts and grants
Book revenues and royalties
$ 316,447
$ 503,535
$ 819,982
17,756
17,756
Interest income
7,455
7,455
Other
1,535
1,535
Total revenues and other support
343,193
503,535
Net assets released
from restrictions
472,975
(472,975)
Total revenues, support
and reclassifications
816,168
30,560
846,728
846,728
Expenses
Program services
610,765
610,765
Management and general
76,942
76,942
Fundraising
86,808
86,808
774,515
774,515
Total expenses
Change in net assets
41,653
30,560
72,213
Net Assets
Beginning of year
End of year
93,994
55,000
148,994
$ 135,647
$ 85,560
$ 221,207
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Statement of Cash Flows
For the Year Ended June 30, 2002
Cash Flows from Operating Activities
Cash received from contributors and grants
$
Interest received
839,273
7,455
Cash paid to grantee partners, employees, and suppliers
(781,521)
Net cash provided by operating activities
65,207
Cash Flows from Investing Activities
Purchase of equipment
(2,612)
Net cash used for investing activities
(2,612)
Net increase in cash and cash equivalents
62,595
Cash
Beginning of period
141,672
End of period
$
204,267
$
72,213
Reconciliation of Change in Net Assets to Net Cash
Provided by Operating Activities
Change in net assets
Adjustments to reconcile change in net assets
to net cash provided by operating activities
Depreciation
2,424
(Increase) in accounts receivable
(5,000)
(Increase) in prepaid expenses
(13,063)
(Decrease) in accounts payable
(,319)
Increase in accrued vacation
8,952
Net cash provided by operating activities
$
65,207
Revenues
Interest = 1%
Revenue (Shakti for Children book sales) = 2%
Corporate Donations = 4%
Individual donors = 24%
Total Foundations = 69%
Family Foundations = 21%
Institutional Foundations = 48%
Expenditures
Management and Adminstration = 10%
Fundraising = 11%
Community Education and Outreach = 29%
Total Grant Making = 50%
Direct Grants = 29%
Program Services = 21%
The Council on Foundations Web site defines family foundations as “those foundations that are either managed or strongly
influenced by the original donor or members of the donor’s family.” www.cof.org/whatis/types/family/
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Notes to the Financial Statements
For the Year Ended June 30, 2002
1. Organization And Purpose
Cash and Cash Equivalents
The Global Fund for Children (“the Organization”) is a
national non-profit organization that helps young people
develop the knowledge and skills they need to become
productive, caring members of our global society. The
Organization identifies and invests in community-based
programs around the world to enhance the lives of
children. The Organization is particularly sensitive to the
needs of street children, child laborers, AIDS orphans,
girls, and other vulnerable groups of children.
Cash and cash equivalents for the statement of cash flows
includes cash on hand, cash held in checking accounts and
cash held in money market funds.
The Global Fund for Children recognizes that promoting
global understanding is essential to helping children
become responsible and caring citizens of the world. The
Organization’s children’s book publishing venture, Shakti
for Children, offers children insight into cultural, social, and
environmental diversity. These award-winning books are
powerful educational and advocacy tools to inform children
and adults everywhere about the lives of young people.
By combining thoughtful grant making and an innovative
communications strategy, the Global Fund for Children
is helping to expand opportunities for children around
the world.
2. Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies
Basis of Accounting
The Organization’s financial statements are prepared on the
accrual basis of accounting. Therefore, revenue and related
assets are recognized when earned and expenses and
related liabilities are recognized as the obligations
are incurred.
Basis of Presentation
Financial statement presentation follows the
recommendations of the Financial Accounting Standards
Board in its Statement of Financial Accounting Standards
(SFAS) No. 117, Financial Statements of Not-for-Profit
Organizations. Under SFAS No. 117, the Organization is
required to report information regarding its financial position
and activities according to three classes of net assets:
unrestricted net assets, temporarily restricted net assets,
and permanently restricted net assets.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with
U.S. generally accepted accounting principles requires
management to make estimates and assumptions that
affect certain reported amounts of assets and liabilities and
disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of
the financial statements and reported amounts of revenues
and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results
could differ from those estimates.
Contributions
Contributions received are recorded as unrestricted,
temporarily restricted or permanently restricted support,
depending on the existence and/or nature of any donor
restrictions. All other donor-restricted support is reported
as an increase in temporarily or permanently restricted
net assets, depending on the nature of the restriction.
When a restriction expires (that is when a stipulated
time restriction ends or the purpose of the restriction
is accomplished), temporarily restricted net assets are
reclassified to unrestricted net assets and reported in
the Statement of Activities as net assets released
from restrictions.
Contributed Services and Materials
A substantial number of volunteers have donated
significant amounts of their time in program services.
However, these services are not reflected in the financial
statements since they do not require specialized skills.
Donated services requiring specialized skills are reflected at
their fair market value. The total amount of these donated
services for the year ended June 30, 2002 was $6,335.
Pursuant to Financial Accounting Standards Board
Statement No. 105, the following summarizes the
Organization’s cash as of year ended June 30, 2002 that
was not covered by insurance provided by the federal
government.
Money market account
$
208,786
The funds in this account are protected through alternative
coverage.
Income Taxes
The Organization is exempt from federal income taxes
on related income under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal
Revenue Code. Accordingly, no provision for income taxes
has been made in the accompanying financial statements.
All donations received by the Organization qualify as
charitable contributions.
Intangible Assets
The Organization has internally developed the trademark,
Shakti for Children™. Since the trademark has been
internally developed, costs associated with the trademark
have been expensed when incurred. The value of the
trademark, along with its useful life, is neither infinite nor
specifically limited, but is indeterminate. Consequently, the
trademark has not been capitalized and no amortization
has been recognized. Books and curricula, which are
authored and published under this trademark, represent
intellectual property which belongs to the Organization,
and upon which it earns copyright royalties. As of June 30,
2002, the Organization owned the intellectual property for
eighteen of these books and curricula.
3. Property, Plant And Equipment
Property, plant and equipment are stated at cost at the date
of acquisition or, in the case of gifts, fair market value at
the date of the donation. Depreciation is recorded over the
estimated useful lives of the respective assets (five years)
using the straight-line method.
A summary of property, plant and equipment follows:
Office equipment
Less accumulated depreciation
Property, plant and equipment, net
$
$
14,296
(4,169)
10,127
4. Temporarily Restricted Net Assets
Temporarily restricted net assets are available for the
development of children’s books and grants for children’s
education programs, and organizational capacity building.
Temporarily restricted net assets were released from
grantor-imposed restrictions for research and development
of new products and impact services, and for fundraising
and development expenses.
5. Program Services
Program services are segregated by type of activity
within the statement of activities. The following
indicates the specific activities, which are included in
each program area:
Grant Making
The Global Fund for Children makes grants to small
community-based organizations around the world that
help young people develop the knowledge and skills
they need to become productive, caring members of
our global society. These grants support nonformal
education programs that focus primarily on the needs
of street children, child laborers, AIDS orphans, girls,
and other vulnerable groups of children. The Global
Fund for Children has no geographic limitations. These
grants have helped children from Afghanistan to Zambia.
Since 1997, the Organization has given over $469,000
to community groups doing vital work with children in
eighteen countries.
Community Education and Outreach
Since 1996, Shakti for Children has developed a range of
innovative books that give children insight into cultural,
social, and environmental diversity. Award-winning books
include: Children from Australia to Zimbabwe, To Be a Kid,
Extraordinary Girls, Let the Games Begin and Come Out
and Play. Through its Books for Kids Project, Shakti for
Children™ donates books to community organizations that
serve children in need. For many children, the books they
receive through this program are the first books they have
ever owned. The Books for Kids project has donated more
than 45,000 books to schools and organizations in the U.S.
and around the world.
The Global Fund for Children’s social marketing program
uses traditional marketing techniques to “sell” ideas,
attitudes and behaviors, seeking to benefit the society in
general. As an example, the 2002 Take Our Daughters to
Work® Day featured GFC’s book Extraordinary Girls as the
official book of the event. Through information posted on
the event’s Web site and a specially designed piece that
was inserted in every book sold through the Web site,
GFC used these opportunities to raise awareness of the
link between Shakti for Children books, philanthropy and
global children’s issues generally.
6. Minimum Future Lease Payments
Real Property Lease
The Organization is obligated under a new lease
agreement for larger office space. This lease expires
in July 2007. Future minimum rental payments under
this operating lease are as follows:
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
Thereafter
$ 85,400
95,298
97,681
100,123
102,626
8,570
$ 486,698
Rent expense for the year ended June 30, 2002
was $23,352.
7. Fundraising
In August 2001 the Organization was awarded a three-year
grant in the amount of $400,000 from the Omidyar
Foundation for the specific charitable purpose of building
organizational capacity. Payment is conditional upon
the organization meeting several reporting and other
requirements. During the year ended June 30, 2002, the
organization received $160,000 to cover fundraising and
development expenses.
8. Promises To Give
Unconditional promises to give are recognized as
receivables and as revenues in the period in which
the Organization is notified by the donor of his or her
commitment to make a contribution. Conditional promises
to give are recognized when the conditions on which they
depend are substantially met.
At June 30, 2002 the Organization had $435,000 in
promises to give contingent upon certain grantmaking
activities, and had a $240,000 promise to give contingent
upon the achievement of building organizational capacity and
participating in the grantor’s communication management
system (See NOTE 7). The Organization expects to fulfill
these conditions over the next two years.
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The Global Fund for Children
Board of Directors
Staff
Laura Luger, Chair
Maya Ajmera
Partner, Moore & Van Allen
Executive Director
Durham, North Carolina
Maya Ajmera
Executive Director, Global Fund for Children
Washington, DC
William Ascher
Vice President and Dean of the Faculty
Claremont McKenna College
Claremont, California
Dena Blank
Trustee, Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation
Greg Fields
Director of Development
Steve Ginther
Program Officer
Joan Shifrin
Director of Community Education
and Outreach
Felicia Sullivan
Administrative Officer
San Francisco, California
Contact Information
Valerie Gardner*
The Global Fund for Children
1101 Fourteenth Street, NW, Suite 910
Washington, DC 20005
Atherton, California
Juliette Gimon
Trustee, Flora Family Foundation
San Francisco, California
Sandra Pinnavaia
Tel: 202-331-9003
Fax: 202-331-9004
www.globalfundforchildren.org
[email protected]
New York, New York
Adele Richardson Ray
Trustee, Smith Richardson Foundation
Pittsboro, North Carolina
Robert D. Stillman
President, Milbridge Capital Management
Chevy Chase, Maryland
Credits
Cover: © Linda Schaefer/Impact Visuals (Brazil).
Inside Cover/Inside Back Cover: © 1999, Jon
Warren (Honduras). Pgs. 4–5 © Maria Carmen
Schulze (Bolivia); © Elaine Little (South Africa);
© Steve Macauley (Guatemala). Pg. 6 © 1999,
Jon Warren (Nepal); © 2000, Jon Warren (Eritrea);
© AFP Photo (India). Pg. 8 © International Affairs
* Member of the GFC board of directors as of 7/1/02
Branch of The Australian DFAT (Australia);
© Maya Ajmera (India). Pg. 11 © Foundation for
the Development of Needy Communities (Uganda).
Pg.18 © Nishtha (India). Pg. 21 © Room to
This annual report was funded by a portion of the royalties from Shakti for Children,
a publishing venture of the Global Fund for Children.
Design: Catalone Design Co.
Read (Nepal).
The Global Fund for Children
Board of Directors
Staff
Laura Luger, Chair
Maya Ajmera
Partner, Moore & Van Allen
Executive Director
Durham, North Carolina
Maya Ajmera
Executive Director, Global Fund for Children
Washington, DC
William Ascher
Vice President and Dean of the Faculty
Claremont McKenna College
Claremont, California
Dena Blank
Trustee, Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation
Greg Fields
Director of Development
Steve Ginther
Program Officer
Joan Shifrin
Director of Community Education
and Outreach
Felicia Sullivan
Administrative Officer
San Francisco, California
Contact Information
Valerie Gardner*
The Global Fund for Children
1101 Fourteenth Street, NW, Suite 910
Washington, DC 20005
Atherton, California
Juliette Gimon
Trustee, Flora Family Foundation
San Francisco, California
Sandra Pinnavaia
Tel: 202-331-9003
Fax: 202-331-9004
www.globalfundforchildren.org
[email protected]
New York, New York
Adele Richardson Ray
Trustee, Smith Richardson Foundation
Pittsboro, North Carolina
Robert D. Stillman
President, Milbridge Capital Management
Chevy Chase, Maryland
Credits
Cover: © Linda Schaefer/Impact Visuals (Brazil).
Inside Cover/Inside Back Cover: © 1999, Jon
Warren (Honduras). Pgs. 4–5 © Maria Carmen
Schulze (Bolivia); © Elaine Little (South Africa);
© Steve Macauley (Guatemala). Pg. 6 © 1999,
Jon Warren (Nepal); © 2000, Jon Warren (Eritrea);
© AFP Photo (India). Pg. 8 © International Affairs
* Member of the GFC board of directors as of 7/1/02
Branch of The Australian DFAT (Australia);
© Maya Ajmera (India). Pg. 11 © Foundation for
the Development of Needy Communities (Uganda).
Pg.18 © Nishtha (India). Pg. 21 © Room to
This annual report was funded by a portion of the royalties from Shakti for Children,
a publishing venture of the Global Fund for Children.
Design: Catalone Design Co.
Read (Nepal).
THE GLOBAL FUND FOR
Annual Report 20 01–2002
The Global Fund for Children
1101 Fourteenth Street, NW, Suite 910
Washington, DC 20005