Why Sponsor a Child?

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

Child sponsorship has a direct impact on the children that are supported. Children have an overall improvement in their confidence, resilience, and well-being. Child sponsorship also can break the cycle of poverty, creating lasting change for individuals and their communities. How sponsorship empowers communities by creating sustainable change When you choose to sponsor a child, you transform not only their life, but the lives of everyone in their community. That’s because the most effective way […]

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

Children Incorporated consistently provides more than 85% percent of all donations directly to the child or children you are supporting. Even with administrative and management costs fluctuating year after year, we often donate as much as 88% of all donations to our programs. Your sponsored child directly receives your sponsorship donation every month — our efforts to support families, healthcare, and community initiatives are made through contributions to our Special Funds and Special Projects. Your […]

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 […]

Needing Just the Basics at Langston Hughes

Our volunteer coordinator talks about the value of hygiene items and clothes

It had already been a fantastic day visiting two of our affiliated sites in New Orleans, and we still had one more to do before returning to our hotel for the evening. Shayne, Kris, Renée, and I made our way from Foundation Preparatory Academy to Langston Hughes Academy in the Fairgrounds neighborhood of the city. When we arrived, we met Maria outside of the school, and we all went inside together, where we were greeted […]