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Hosted Initiatives

Global Fund for Children fiscally sponsors select initiatives that share our commitment to advancing the rights and well-being of children and youth.

Through this relationship, GFC provides essential financial oversight and operational infrastructure—such as grant management and fund disbursement—allowing these organizations to focus on their mission and programs.

By serving as a fiscal host, GFC helps other initiatives and organizations grow their impact, pilot new approaches, and build the foundation for long-term success.

Funder Safeguarding Collaborative

Funder Safeguarding Collaborative

Funder Safeguarding Collaborative (FSC) believes that all funders have a role to play in keeping the communities they support safe.

FSC is the only philanthropic support organization dedicated to safeguarding—creating spaces where funders can share learnings and provide bespoke technical support to improve safeguarding practice in grant-making organizations and in the organizations they fund.

FSC operates on the belief that funders have a unique potential to make organizations safer through their grant-making. They walk alongside funders on their safeguarding journey, helping them to implement practices that make their organization and the organizations they fund, safer.

Go to the FSC website

The Iris Project

The Iris Project

The Iris Project enables young people to protect and restore nature in their local communities.

The Iris Project is a youth-led, trust-based grant-maker that believes in the power of young people to drive environmental change. It recognizes that young leaders are already developing solutions to the climate and ecological crisis – but too often, they struggle to access the funding and support they need. The Iris Prize exists to change that.

Global Fund for Children has partnered with The Iris Project, stepping in as its fiscal host in February 2025. With its participatory, youth-first approach, The Iris Project aligns very closely with GFC’s commitment to championing young leaders and our own expertise in participatory, flexible grantmaking.

Find out more about the Iris Project

Girl Up

Girl Up

Girl Up powers an interconnected global movement of youth leaders advancing gender justice.

Across more than 155 countries, Girl Up nurtures young changemakers through leadership development, youth-led action, and global convenings that build solidarity across borders. Its programs equip girls and gender-expansive youth with the tools, community, and confidence to organize locally and lead globally, shifting policies, cultures, and systems toward a more equitable world.

In November 2025, Global Fund for Children (GFC) assumed the role of fiscal host for Girl Up, marking the beginning of an exciting new chapter of shared purpose and global collaboration. GFC’s expertise in supporting community-based organizations and young changemakers around the world aligns deeply with Girl Up’s mission to localize power and resource youth-led movements. Together, we will strengthen a global ecosystem of feminist leadership and collective action for gender justice.

Learn about Girl Up

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