[9] In 2007, GFC launched its Under-8 Initiative (U8), a pledge to invest $10 million over five years in groups working with children under the age of eight in developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
[11] In 2008, Global Fund for Children was selected as a winner of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Competition.
The approach is to place early stage bets on high-potential social entrepreneurs with an ultimate goal of creating scalable and contextual solutions to prevent trafficking at the root.
[17] GFC strategically invests in grassroots organizations and helps them to grow and become sustainable resources in their communities.
The organization intentionally scouts out and supports small, emerging nonprofits that do not have other sources of funding—in 2013, GFC was the first US-based institutional funder for 83% of its new grantees.
Filmed by Lunam Docs, a Serbian independent documentary production duo – Lucian and Natasa Muntean – who specialize in telling the stories of child laborers.