Helping Children Worldwide Global Partners

Financial Health

We insist that partners demonstrate financial health and a culture of integrity with respect to receipt and expenditure of donations, services and operations. In order to receive funding supports through HCW, global partners must maintain current, accurate and sound financial records of income and expenditures, prepare and operate under fiscally responsible budgets with revenue and spend plans, maintain savings adequate to manage in times of crisis, and hire, compensate and manage staff appropriately, and report activities, impacts, receipts and expenditures regularly.

Global Leadership

All HCW global partners operate with a best practices mindset, contributing to the knowledge base and application of practice standards in their field and location, demonstrating an understanding of how Sustainable Development Goals for their region are impacted by the success of their work, and sharing insights and collaborating with HCW and its global network to improve the overall community of practice.

Link Resources to Needs

All HCW global partners are supporting vulnerable populations, connected to and influencing the local communities where they are located at multiple levels. Like HCW, they operate as conduits to identify and link resources in their community with the populations they serve.

Focus on Family and Community

HCW is committed to working with institutions and providers in local communities who strengthen and empower families and communities to benefit the most impoversished and .

Equip & Empower

HCW’s partnerships are intended to equip and empower local leadership and to advocate for the ultimate transfer of control and management of resources, and responsibility for long-term planning and power to decide into the hands of those who are directly impacting vulnerable populations. For this reason, we partner with organizations that are (1) interested in becoming fully autonomous, (2) open to learning, adapting and engaging in best practices, (3) willing to respect and accept our professional assistance as they develop capacity, (4) remain faithfully open and transparent with financial records and about their mission priorities, (5) diligent in fighting internal corruption, (6) committed to reworking management or governance practices that impede mission effectiveness, and (7) collaborative in improvements to monitoring and evaluation and (8) regularly sharin impact data and financial records during our partnership.

Radical Honesty

Truth is the core of our value system, and every other value grows from the strength of truth. We tell our story with humble and forthright ownership of many failures and mistakes, with public confession of our brokenness, struggles, limitations and conflicts.

We acknowledge that what we believed yesterday changed because we did not turn away from hard truth, and what we believe today may change tomorrow as we embrace revelations of living our truth. We demonstrate willingness to learn, grow and do better.

We do not shy away from sharing experiences, skills, expertise, knowledge, strengths and successes, as false humility is a selfish and self-centered disguise, and the enemy of truth.

Radical Collaboration

We are a tiny workforce, attempting to get at the root causes of child poverty and child mortality. We are honest in our limitations as a small, resource-limited force for change and embrace collective action as a means to overcome limitation.

In every problem we encounter, we first seek out collaborators who are already engaged in problem-solving, and endeavor to pool our resources with theirs, and gain access to the knowledge, skills and understanding they possess. Where we cannot find existing networks and collaborators that are bringing the right resources to solve problems, we endeavor to convene them.

We understand that what we cannot do directly, we can influence greatly. Influence is spread through networks. We are embedded in many networks to influence change.

Radical Trust

We sometimes call this value Radical Faith. This is the spiritual value we foster within our team of a shared belief that we are each of us called to do this work, and that while we may not see the outcome of our work in the way or the time expected, may not experience success in the way that we imagined, it does not mean we have failed, or that it is time to stop trying.

Our frustrations, fears and worries are not a barrier to accepting the challenges we face, not a reason to give up or accept defeat, and we will find our way more quickly when we trust God and one another.

There will come a time when we see the fruits of our labor, and we when we do, we may find ourselves astonished at how we came to the point where we find ourselves.

Radical Courage

This is another aspect of faith – it is the stepping off into the unknown, and sometimes the known and unwelcome. We know most clearly when we have been tasked with a part of a greater plan, when our first response is “oh, heck no!” But we know our greatest accomplishments have always come after we surrender our resistance and take up the challenge we have been handed. We call this “called” to respond. We see the risks, and it takes a great deal of courage to act.