I continue to assess the impact that I have on children's lives as I learn and grow in my early childhood profession. The section of the Global fund for children that I believe is relevant toward my professional develovopment is the impact they have on children. The Global Fund has helped more than 9 million children but they continue to meet more in hopes of reaching another million by 2015. This affords children the opportunity to an education versus having to go to work, it also strive to keep children from catching infectious diseases by providing health services, protects them from slavery and to escape the slavery that some children already live in and these opportunities simply allow children to be just that "children".
The Global Fund sets out to find grantees in marginalized communities and help with funding, they invest in groups as they are identified and help them to expand. They keep community organizations who thrive to help children informed and provide them with the support that they need to continue to grow and to ensure success they determine if their efforts are successful by looking at the outcomes of those that they helped to ensure that they are helping the lives of children.
"We believe that money alone is not enough—for lasting change, you need
strong leadership and healthy organizational development. We support our
partners through management assistance, capacity building, networking
opportunities, and additional strengthening services" (Global Fund).
Funding in every organization is important. One insight that isn't new to me is that it is important is making sure that when working with children is to ensure that the impact that is measured on the lives of the children that I served is a positive impact and if not ways to better this impact. Although most grantees that the Global Fund supports are small the impact that they have on children's lives are huge and this is my goal to have positive impacts that will changes children's lives forever.
References
The Global Fund for Children http://www.globalfundforchildren.org
Latarsha,
ReplyDeleteGreat post. I agree that funding is very important for any organization. In order for a child care center to function and run a quality early childhood program. I've noticed that there are two different people in our field. Money hungry people and Education passionate people. We as educators have to keep a balance in this field, so that the children we serve is providing the best education possible.