Why Sponsor a Child?

Understanding the long-term impact of sponsorship on a child’s education, health, and future opportunities

Child sponsorship: It’s been around for a long while, and there are dozens of organizations, but why is it important? And why should you consider it?   At its core, child sponsorship works to break the cycle of poverty, creating lasting change for individuals and their communities. At Children Incorporated, we believe that is done through education. Having a degree, even just high school diploma, increases your likelihood of financial success by 70%, according to […]

The Crescent City of Charter Schools

Our Director of Development visits her first affiliation in New Orleans

Renée Kube, Kristen Walthall, and I arrived in New Orleans on a Tuesday afternoon in early December 2024 with the plan to visit our five affiliated sites over the next two days. In New Orleans, Children Incorporated partners directly with Communities in Schools (CIS) Gulf South to help implement our sponsorship program within the local schools, and their Chief Program Officer, Shayne, graciously offered to pick us up and be our tour guide for the […]

How Sponsorship Funds Are Managed

Breaking down how your donations are changing lives

When you choose to sponsor a child through Children Incorporated, your support goes exactly where it’s needed most — directly to the child you’re helping. In fact, over 85% of every dollar we receive goes straight to program services, and often even more. That means your monthly sponsorship is making a real, personal impact — not filtered through layers of red tape or spread across unrelated programs. Your sponsored child receives those funds each month […]

What to Expect as a Sponsor

A quick guide to the sponsorship experience

WHAT IS SPONSORSHIP, AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT? The sponsorship relationship enables a donor to support a child by means of monthly contributions and, if the donor so desires, through the exchange of correspondence. A sponsor’s friendship and encouragement are priceless to a child in such circumstances. Indeed, many children value the relationships they establish with their sponsors as much as they value the financial help they receive. Our current monthly sponsorship rate is $35, […]

How Sponsorship Works

A step-by-step explanation of the sponsorship process

Our sponsorship program is managed by our staff in our office and our 300 volunteer coordinators at our affiliated sites in 20 countries around the world. Our volunteer coordinators work closely with our sponsored children to ensure their particular needs are met and relay those needs to our sponsors. Sometimes our sponsors chose a child based on age or location, or they chose a child who has been waiting the longest for a sponsor. The […]

Guide to Sponsoring A Child

How you can make a difference

Child sponsorship is one of the most effective ways to help a child living in poverty and it also has many rewards for the sponsor. We want to offer a comprehensive guide on why sponsoring a child has such a lasting effect on impoverished children and how you can get involved in changing a child’s life. Introduction to Child Sponsorship Child sponsorship involves pairing a supporting donor with a child in need. The donor (who […]