Education
Conducted virtually across three regions and multiple languages, the Partnership to Educate All Kids (PEAK) learning review provided a unique opportunity for partners to pause and reflect on their work. The insights gained have revealed the transformative power of play.
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Racial stereotypes and harmful ideas about masculinity still affect how young Black men are seen and treated in society. These narratives are internalised amongst Black boys and men, leading to deep, entrenched fear amongst those that look like them, other Black boys and men. Through Life of a Top Boy, we’ve been tackling these issues directly, working with Black boys and young men to challenge negative labels and build more positive, empowering ideas of what it means to be a Black man today.
Global Fund for Children worked on a ground-breaking initiative with organizations in Bangladesh that support at-risk youth. This phase of the Addressing Root Causes (ARC) initiative focused on personal growth, which rippled through organizations, cohort organizations, and communities to create sustainable locally driven change.
Gender justice
Global Fund for Children (GFC), with support from the TIDES Foundation and People’s Postcard Lottery, is implementing in a groundbreaking project in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Using GFC’s flexible funding model, community-based organizations are supported to decrease incidents of gender-based violence and improve educational access for girls in the region.
The learning brief Grassroots Grantmaking at Global Fund for Children outlines the who, what, where, and how of Global Fund for Children’s (GFC) approaches to funding and supporting community-based changemakers.
Elevate Children Funders Group’s Zoe Trout and GFC’s Vanessa Stevens share how meaningful child and youth participation in philanthropy can be a powerful catalyst for increased impact and achieving change.
Global Fund for Children’s Yelizaveta Yanovich, Corey Oser, and John Hecklinger, and GFC Board member Jaclyn Foroughi share strategies and considerations for equitable monitoring, evaluation, and learning in the philanthropy sector.
Research that includes GFC case studies.
Reconocer las emociones en cuerpo, mente y acciones, por medio de ejercicios básicos de dibujo terapia.
Recognize emotions in body, mind and actions, through basic drawing therapy exercises.
To continue reflecting on the importance of this work, we recently invited a group of young men from the US, Mexico, and Central America who are committed to gender justice to share with us what healthy masculinity means to them, how they practice it in their daily lives, and how they feel that this process has enriched them.
The museum is an itinerant artistic project that seeks to raise awareness among children and young people and their communities about the importance of promoting masculinities based on care and social justice.
