We are global leaders. We lead through our commitment to core values. We lead by example, demonstrating our commitment to the right of every child to live and grow at the center of strong, safe families and communities. We use our voice and our experience to bring others forward. We know our value and our limitations, and we cherish each equally – as that is what keeps us in our right lane.
We believe it is better to lead people to come together than to race ahead – alone. We believe it is essential to stay closely connected to the people, communities, and problems we exist to solve. We won’t shy away from the hard undertaking of whatever role we are given to bring about change, however small that role or the change it brings.
We speak courageously in our convictions, hold ourselves accountable for empowering others, proclaiming and publishing the benefits of ethical alliances. We insist on doing the hard right as an orphan prevention institution in maintaining the long view, fighting the fire, not the smoke. We strive to be patient in our methods, wise in our investments and strong champions of self-directed community-led solutions to local problems.
We talk honestly about creating balanced-power relationships, strive to be ethical, responsible, trustworthy, and faithful allies, and bring the voices of our allies into important conversations and onto the global stage as skillful problem-solvers, and subject matter experts to speak for themselves.
We continue to gain and champion knowledge through on-going lived experiences, investigating, researching,and sharing recently acquired knowledge and fresh insights. Because of our core values, we are honest in accepting errors, quick to correct mistakes that we have made, and open in sharing difficult lessons and learning. We humbly seek to do better every day, and solicit the same behavior in others as an example of what we value in leadership.
Join with our global networks in memberships that criss-cross the globe, linking global north to global south, setting examples on ethical mission, mutuality, empowerment, and elevating the voices often left out of the conversation.
From Together for Global Health, to the Strong Family for Every Child Initiative to highlight the work in your own community, to Rising Tides’ deep conversations between vital voices in the field, and including communities of practice within country borders and spanning continents, we demonstrate our commitment to work alongside those who are closest to the problems, and share our knowledge on what we’ve discovered in the process.