Helping Children Worldwide

About HCW

Our origins, how we work, our commitment to alliance, investments in outcomes, and funding processes.

Who We Are
How We Work

Financial Integrity

Reports on accountability, stewardship, and allied funding processes.

Our Ideas

The latest news, research, and articles on topics of interest from Helping Children Worldwide.

Resources

Data, research, publications, media, curriculum, worship materials, and essential resources.

Systems and Community

Empowerment approaches to development, locally led collaborations, respectful alliances, ethical practices, and sustainable progress.

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Who We Are

Our corporate culture is established through deeply held core values that apply to everything we think, say, and do.

Our Enduring Mission, Mission Statement, and Organizational Identity.

Mission : The mission of Helping Children Worldwide is its enduring purpose. Simply stated: Helping Children Worldwide.

Mission Statement: Our mission statement represents our current articulation of how we understand our enduring mission is most faithfully pursued. Helping Children Worldwide expresses its mission as: Helping Children Worldwide by strengthening and empowering families and communities.

Organizational Identity: Organizational identity refers to the enduring character of Helping Children Worldwide.

It includes:

  • core values;
  • ethical commitments;
  • purpose;
  • philosophy of service;
  • understanding of faithful stewardship;
  • our affiliations and relationships;
  • institutional character.

Four Core Values and Five Mission Anchors Dictate Our Choices in Allies, Partnerships and Operations.

We are a “Know Better, Do Better Organization” with a mission to Help Children Worldwide. We are a small NGO with a massive mission.

In order to accomplish a goal with a scope, breadth, and depth that exceeds the reach of our arms, we operate not from a position of control, but one of humble curiosity and connection. We operate through relationships and collaborations guided by 4 Core Values and 5 Mission Anchors.

Our Core Values are expressed as “radical” because our adherence to them is passionate, and they apply to everything we think, say, and do. We approach our work, with Radical Honesty, Radical Faith, Radical Courage, and Radical Collaboration.

Our mission is anchored in five ways to prevent mission creep, burn-out, overload, and failure. We evaluate proposed actions and decisions in light of the anchors of Being Financially Secure so that we may continue to operate and meet obligations and goals; Linking Resources to Needs so that we act wisely as a resource conduit rather than a resource generator; Empowering Local Leaders so that we recognize the right lanes of operation and responsibility for our alliances, leveraging local wisdom and connections, and balancing power dynamics; Focus on the Mission’s operational scope of programs that strengthen and empower families and communities to avoid mission creep; Leading the Way within the field of our expertise to keep us pushing forward at all times to reach our goal of helping children worldwide.

Anchors

Leadership

Our leadership extends beyond the board of directors and department heads, to include everyone who has ever served on a committee, spoke on our behalf, planned a mission, or managed an event. Past and current leaders have run businesses, headed agencies, overseen hospitals, universities, and churches. Good people attract good people, and perhaps that is why our board of directors and staff leadership is comprised of thoughtful, dedicated, and compassionate people with a passion for children, humanitarian work and global development. They carry out their obligations to the stakeholders, public and the charitable organization, as well as the people we strive to help with deep caring. Each leader has a unique perspective, skillset and subject matter expertise that makes our work possible.

Our International Leadership Team

History

History

Our Story

HCW was incorporated in 2003 and tasked with supporting the existing international missions for children that grew from the outreach of Floris UMC in Northern Virginia. These ministries were specifically named in the Articles of Incorporation, along with any future programs and activities that aligned with the mission of the newly formed NGO. The concept was that a separately incorporated 501(c)(3) NGO could access funding opportunities that were beyond the capacity of the church, and could pull together various missions to help vulnerable children wherever they were found, and be better suited to managing them with a concentration of knowledge and best practices developed through lived experience, hence the aspirational name “Helping Children Worldwide ” The existing ministries included two orphanages, one in Nicaragua and one in Sierra Leone, and a hospital being built in Sierra Leone to address maternal mortality issues where they are the gravest, and offer charity services in the Province of Bo, where no such services existed.