MISSION CRITICAL PRIORITIES

Together, we can invest in a future filled with hope for them.

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The best way to create a better future is to plant seeds of hope in children’s lives now. Together, we can enable them to grow into confident, capable, faith-filled adults. Let’s release children from poverty together in Jesus’ name!

“The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon; planted in the house of the Lord, they will flourish in the courts of our God.”
PSALM 92:12-13, NIV

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The top three ministry priorities

Explore these strategic areas of ministry focus and, as God leads you, and where your own heart aligns, please generously invest in meeting the needs of children. If you’d like to support our work in all these areas, consider making a generous gift to our Where Most Needed Fund.

Global Food Crisis

The global food crisis is still severe, but we are seeing progress. In six of the 10 countries we’ve categorized as being at extreme risk, our work has now expanded beyond emergency relief to include helping children and their families obtain sustainable food production through farming and business development. Help us continue to make progress and empower the local church to support every Compassion family in becoming food resilient.

  1. A gift of $1,000 feeds 10 families for two months.
  2. A gift of $10,000 provides 75 families with income generation training and resources to promote food security.

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Baby & Mom Survival

Each year, more than 2.4 million babies die before they turn 1 month old. But your support will help us reach 7,215 more moms, offering them the support of Compassion Survival Centers. These centers will ensure they receive regular health care and training, enabling their little ones to reach their 1st birthday with a healthy foundation of development.

  1. A gift of $1,000 helps baby & mom survive to their 1st birthday.
  2. A gift of $15,000 maintains an existing Compassion Survival Center for one year.

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Ministry Expansion

In the countries where we serve and seek to grow, 170 million more children living in desperate poverty need us. You can help us launch 600+ new child development centers to care for 250,000+ more children with research-backed programs that share the hope of Christ.

  1. A gift of $1,500 enables a local church partner to welcome five additional children from their community.
  2. A gift of $5,000 funds one-fifth of the average cost of launching a new child development center!
  3. A gift of $12,000 enables a local church partner to welcome 40 additional children from their community.

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The top three ministry priorities

Explore these strategic areas of ministry focus and, as God leads you, and where your own heart aligns, please generously invest in meeting the needs of children.

Global Food Crisis

The global food crisis is still severe, but we are seeing progress. In six of the 10 countries we’ve categorized as being at extreme risk, our work has now expanded beyond emergency relief to include helping children and their families obtain sustainable food production through farming and business development. Help us continue to make progress and empower the local church to support every Compassion family in becoming food resilient.

  1. A gift of $25,000 helps feed 125 families for four months.
  2. A gift of $75,000 helps feed 375 families for four months.
  3. A gift of $200,000 provides 1,500 families with income generation, training and resources to promote food security.

Learn more >

Baby & Mom Survival

Each year, more than 2.4 million babies die before they turn 1 month old. But your support will help us reach 7,215 more moms, offering them the support of Compassion Survival Centers. These centers will ensure they receive regular health care and training, enabling their little ones to reach their 1st birthday with a healthy foundation of development.

  1. A gift of $25,000 supports 25 mothers and their babies in the Compassion Survival Program for one year.
  2. A gift of $50,000 supports 50 mothers and their babies in the Compassion Survival Program for one year.
  3. A gift of $125,000 supports 125 mothers and their babies in the Compassion Survival Program for one year.

Learn more >

a mother holds her child
Ministry Expansion

In the countries where we serve and seek to grow, 170 million more children living in desperate poverty need us. You can help us launch 600+ new child development centers to care for 250,000+ more children with research-backed programs that share the hope of Christ.

  1. A gift of $25,000 enables local church partners to welcome 83 additional children from their community.
  2. A gift of $75,000 enables local church partners to welcome 250 additional children from their community.
  3. A gift of $200,000 enables local church partners to welcome 667 additional children from their community.

Learn more >

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Why Compassion?

Simply put, the Compassion model works. In fact, major independent studies have historically shown that Compassion program graduates are much more likely to gain salaried work, finish secondary education, go to college and be leaders in their communities and churches.*

Each child we serve is a life full of God-given potential. Together, we can show them that, as they grow into capable and empowered adults, Christ’s love will never let them down.

*Shrewd Samaritan: Faith, Economics, and the Road to Loving Our Global Neighbors, 2019

Our approach to helping children escape extreme poverty is effective and scalable.

Christ-centered

2.3 million children have an opportunity to hear the gospel in an age-appropriate and culturally relevant way.

Church-driven

We partner with 8,600 churches to ensure each child is known, loved and protected.

Child-focused

We serve children across 29 countries, caring for them like we’d want our own children treated.

Our holistic child development program isn’t just relief.

It’s designed to help children from birth to age 22 to grow:

  • Physically — through malnutrition monitoring, medical care and staff and parents trained in child protection.
  • Emotionally — through safe environments, friendships, mentorship and the love of staff, volunteers and sponsors.
  • Mentally — through education assistance, tutoring, skills training and career development.
  • Spiritually — through learning about and experiencing the love of God.

Your contributions are stewarded wisely to help children around the world

We're committed to the highest standards of financial integrity and accountability, only using money for the purpose it was raised, regularly performing audits to ensure our programs are well managed and funds are properly disbursed and applied and balancing low administrative and fundraising costs with high-quality programs.

80.7%
of total expenses were for program development and delivery.
12.3%
of total expenses went to fundraising to further advance the mission.
7.0%
of total expenses went to administration to reach even more children.
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We exceed governance benchmarks.

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Earned for trustworthiness in the marketplace.

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We are accredited for upholding integrity.

“Compassion is a multiplier of opportunities to change lives. Compassion creates opportunities for us to use our resources as tools for good, for us to do something incredibly meaningful for the greater good. And because Compassion has been at this for such a long time, they have the systems and structure in place, and they have the accountability, which is why it is so effective in its mission. We’re passionate about our work and our path with Compassion, and we’re always encouraging others to get in on the blessings that supporting Compassion brings into your life.”

— Paul and Lori, Compassion supporters in the USA

Learn more about our top ministry priorities

Global Food Crisis
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Baby & Mom Survival
Ministry Expansion