Local by design. Powered by community. Proven by results.
For nearly 90 years, ChildFund has tackled challenges head-on. We are local by design, built on trust, and deeply focused on children. With nearly 150 powerhouse local partner organizations rooted in the communities they serve, we connect children with the people, resources and institutions they need to grow up healthy, educated, skilled and safe. Our approach was made for this moment: when global challenges demand solutions built with, and shaped by, the people living them.
We deliver impact by mobilizing youth, governments, the private sector, partners and community leaders to solve problems no single actor can take on alone. We measure success in lives transformed and systems strengthened. And we scale proven strategies that reach children — with our partners in ChildFund Alliance — across 60+ countries.
We exist for children – and their voices and experiences guide everything we do. Each year, we reach millions of children and family members contending with poverty through programs that support them to create the conditions children need to thrive.
As a community development organization, we work hand in hand with local partner organizations to diminish the impact of poverty on children. Because local people know their own needs best.
We believe that people are people, no matter their circumstances or experiences, and that their value is intrinsic and immeasurable. We strive to honor the dignity of every child in our programs and every human being we meet, no matter what.
What really sets us apart? Our impact doesn’t expire when the funding cycle does. Backed by nearly 240,000 individual donors and a global network committed to change that endures, ChildFund invests resources and expertise alongside our partners to create solutions that are community owned and built to last.
When children grow up healthy, educated, skilled and safe, they shape the futures they imagine. ChildFund delivers real, scalable impact so children can build those futures.
Since 1938, we've worked to help children grow up healthy, educated, skilled and safe.
