Children's Policy and Funding Initiative
The Children’s Policy and Funding Initiative seeks to elevate issues affecting children globally and make them a higher priority. The initiative promotes collaboration across organizations and coalitions focusing on issues such as education, violence prevention, early childhood development, cyber-security, and rights to encourage shared learning, joint planning, and a stronger and more united voice for children everywhere. The work also aims to ensure policymakers understand the benefits of prioritizing investments in children and of adopting a holistic lens that considers the various needs of children through their life stages.
Research is clear. Funding for children's initiatives result in an extraordinarily strong return on investment, reducing long-term health expenses, increasing economic readiness and opportunities, and building more participatory government with more stable and secure societies. More than ever, investments in children and youth are critical for our future.
The lead foundations are committed to supporting children and young people around the world. These donors have a special interest in ensuring a healthy start to early childhood development, access to education, and nurturing families and community care; preventing against sexual abuse and other forms violence, online exploitation and harm, and discrimination and neglect; and promoting equal rights and well-being. This Initiative leverages pooled donor funds with Tides Center serving as the fiscal sponsor.
Research is clear. Funding for children's initiatives result in an extraordinarily strong return on investment, reducing long-term health expenses, increasing economic readiness and opportunities, and building more participatory government with more stable and secure societies. More than ever, investments in children and youth are critical for our future.
The lead foundations are committed to supporting children and young people around the world. These donors have a special interest in ensuring a healthy start to early childhood development, access to education, and nurturing families and community care; preventing against sexual abuse and other forms violence, online exploitation and harm, and discrimination and neglect; and promoting equal rights and well-being. This Initiative leverages pooled donor funds with Tides Center serving as the fiscal sponsor.
Our Grants Approach
This Initiative demonstrates that collaborative networks and complementary grantmaking are a powerful force for change. The grantees individually and through coalitions they lead are working on a variety of inter-related topics, such as access to inclusive quality education, preventing violence, guarding against sexual abuse and exploitation, improving care, providing early childhood development, improving mental health, ensuring nutrition and sanitation, and supporting disability rights, gender equality, and youth, peace and security. The Initiative fosters greater collaboration and facilitates a more holistic approach to create a stronger more united voice for and to increase understanding and support for meeting the needs of the whole child through their life cycle.
The Initiative is grounded in the belief that good programming and policies are informed directly by affected communities. Our grantees work directly with young people and affected communities to strengthen their role in the design, decision-making and delivery of policy, programming and funding that impacts them and their communities.
The Initiative is grounded in the belief that good programming and policies are informed directly by affected communities. Our grantees work directly with young people and affected communities to strengthen their role in the design, decision-making and delivery of policy, programming and funding that impacts them and their communities.
U.S. Government Approach
Too often, the needs of children and youth are overlooked in policy and funding decisions. What is needed is a whole child approach that recognizes how physical, social, emotional, relational, educational, intellectual and spiritual needs are interrelated. An integrated, whole child approach takes into account what is needed to improve early development, health, nutrition, education, care, protection and well-being.
Children and Youth Advocates
More and more, young people around the world are champions for change. By involving young people in design and decisions, their needs will be better understood and met. Investments that support all children and young people to thrive are investments that secure a better future for societies and nations worldwide.
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"If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children." Mahatma Gandhi |