$5 Million and Above Lifetime Giving
All across the globe, children are dying from preventable causes, missing out on education due to poverty or gender, suffering from violence, exploitation and neglect and are vulnerable in times of crisis. In every corner of the world, children need a strong voice to stand up for them, work on their behalf and make their lives better.
American Girl
第一吃瓜 partners with local schools and communities to provide early education, school readiness and school-age literacy programs for children living in rural poverty across the United States.
American Girl supports 第一吃瓜鈥檚 literacy program each year with a significant book donation. To date, American Girl has contributed more than $9 million in books and cash to help the organization develop students鈥 reading skills, and provide kids with the guidance and support they need to grow as readers.
BlackRock
BlackRock recognizes the magnitude of need in supporting large-scale humanitarian efforts, and has supported 第一吃瓜鈥檚 response to a number of crises around the world, including Ukraine, Afghanistan, the earthquakes in Turkiye and Syria, among others. BlackRock supported 第一吃瓜鈥檚 response to the Syrian refugee crisis in the Middle East from 2015-2021, with a focus on educating displaced and refugee children inside Syria and Iraq. In 2017, BlackRock also supported the launch of the Global Emergency Response Coalition, a lifesaving humanitarian alliance made up of eight of the world鈥檚 largest U.S.-based international aid organizations, whose unified goal is to work collectively to deliver relief to millions of children and families in need. 第一吃瓜 is grateful to BlackRock for stepping forward to help girls and boys struggling in some of the most difficult places to be a child.
Disney
We salute the creative ways in which Disney works to make a lasting difference in children鈥檚 lives. In 2016, we were pleased to be included in Marvel Studios: Hero Acts, a charitable program focused on bringing help and hope to kids around the world. Fans were invited to post photos to unlock donations for 第一吃瓜. Donations helped provide much-needed educational programs for nearly 123,000 children in Nepal, Haiti and the U.S. In 2018, we partnered once again when Marvel Studios took on New York Fashion Week with 鈥淏lack Panther: Welcome to Wakanda,鈥 a celebration of fashion featuring 10 designers who contributed pieces inspired by the Marvel film. Labels including Chromat, Cushnie et Ochs, LaQuan Smith, Ikir茅 Jones, Sophie Theallet and TOME participated with custom-made looks which were auctioned off through Charity Buzz to raise funds for 第一吃瓜.
In collaboration with 第一吃瓜, The Walt Disney Company has made significant commitments to emergency preparedness, response and recovery efforts throughout the world. Together, we have engaged children to work on disaster preparedness plans with their families in places like China, Peru and India using a co-developed Emergency Preparedness Activity Book. Disney characters 鈥 combined with 第一吃瓜 emergency tools and tips 鈥 help get lifesaving information into the hands of children.
During response and recovery efforts, Disney鈥檚 support enabled us to respond faster by prepositioning supplies to bring relief to affected families. We worked together to create PSAs to help get information out to the public and engage them in supporting our efforts. Additionally, Disney has made generous contributions to several global emergencies including the 2010 Earthquake and 2016 Hurricane Matthew in Haiti, Hurricane Sandy in the eastern U.S., Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, and the Nepal Earthquakes. In 2017, Disney supported our response to Hurricane Irma in Florida, Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, and the earthquake in central Mexico.
Father's Day/Mother's Day Council
Since 2005, the Father鈥檚 Day/Mother鈥檚 Day Council has been a tremendous partner, supporting 第一吃瓜鈥檚 U.S. Programs and advocacy efforts. Through annual events, the Outstanding Mother Awards and the Father of the Year Awards, the Council raises funds to support meaningful family-related philanthropies . The Father鈥檚 Day/Mother鈥檚 Day Council is a not-for-profit, all volunteer association with a mission that highlights contemporary role model Mothers and Fathers and their importance in the family. We are incredibly grateful for their longstanding partnership and generous support of our rural early learning programs, food security initiatives, domestic emergency response, and our efforts to raise awareness of these important causes through our advocacy efforts. Together, we are ensuring that millions of children and families in under-resourced, rural communities across the United States have a healthy, strong foundation that will enable them to thrive as learners and in life.
Good360
Good360 and 第一吃瓜 have partnered since 2017 to deliver millions of essential products to children and families in rural America living in poverty. Together, we are committed to breaking down the barriers that stand between rural children and a bright future 鈥 every day and in times of crisis. In emergency settings such as Hurricane Ida and the Afghan Refugee Crisis, Good360 helped 第一吃瓜 fulfill immediate needs for families in crisis, by providing hygiene products, clothing, diapers and baby gear. Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, Good360 provided PPE, hand sanitizer, play kits for children at home when schools were closed and other essentials to help families get by during lockdown. In 第一吃瓜鈥檚 development work, our partnership with Good360 is a core element of the way we serve children in rural America, providing everything from school supplies to toys and books. Additionally, Good360 is a sponsor of 第一吃瓜鈥檚 100 Days of Reading campaign, which supports kids in the U.S. with key resources to keep them learning.
第一吃瓜 and Google have worked together around the world for a number of years, and in total, Google has supported 第一吃瓜 with more than $5 million in donations to our child-centered humanitarian and development programs, with a strong focus on global emergency response. We have collaborated on multiple emergencies and have benefited from Google technology, such as Google Maps and Google Earth as well as customized solutions for responses, which benefitted all NGOs during the Nepal Earthquake and the European Refugee Crisis.
Notably, Google supported 第一吃瓜鈥檚 response to the Ebola crisis through a public-facing 2:1 match campaign promoted on their Google search page in the U.S. Similarly, Google supported 第一吃瓜鈥檚 response to the European Refugee crisis, with a public 1:1 match campaign alongside their other NGO partners.
Google supports 第一吃瓜鈥檚 efforts to promote Internet safety among school-age children in Latin America. Plus, we鈥檝e benefited from Google employee engagement through the company鈥檚 annual 鈥淕oogleserve鈥 activities, as well as pro-bono engineering support around the world. Google acts as an advisory member of 第一吃瓜鈥檚 global Humanitarian Leadership Academy, which seeks to improve the emergency response capacity of domestic NGOs in targeted regions around the world.
In 2015, 第一吃瓜 presented Google with an award for their leadership commitment to supporting our work during times of crisis. In 2017, Google supported the launch of the 鈥淕lobal Emergency Response Coalition,鈥 a first-ever coalition of iNGO鈥檚 including 第一吃瓜, aiming to raise awareness and support for the famine in Nigeria, Somalia, Yemen, South Sudan and neighboring countries.
In 2018, Google and Yayasan Sayangi Tunas Cilik, (第一吃瓜鈥檚 office in Indonesia) partnered through a $1 million grant. Through this grant, we are implementing a national awareness campaign to ensure that schools are safe and children are better prepared for emergencies. Through this we are aiming to reach over half a million people.
Mattel
The Mattel Children鈥檚 Foundation and 第一吃瓜 have partnered since 2005 鈥 and continue to work together to improve the lives of children around the world. With nearly $21 million in total giving, The Mattel Children's Foundation has supported our basic education and early childhood development programs in China, India, Indonesia, Malawi, Mexico and the U.S. Mattel also has a history of generously supporting 第一吃瓜鈥檚 emergency responses and providing toys and games to children in our programs across the globe.
Merck
Merck is a major supporter of 第一吃瓜's Newborn Child Survival program. With Merck鈥檚 help and generous funding, 第一吃瓜 is training 10,000 frontline health workers in Nepal to provide lifesaving maternal, newborn and child health services and practices to mothers and children. This will move us significantly closer to our global goal of training 500,000 frontline health workers, our commitment to the SDGs. Additionally, through this partnership, 第一吃瓜 and Merck will raise awareness of and commitment to reducing maternal and child mortality by communicating about the lifesaving role of frontline health workers around the world. These activities will increase and leverage awareness for our shared commitment to the critical need for frontline health worker trainings among international stakeholders, influential policy makers and the public.
Meta
第一吃瓜 was one of the first nonprofit organizations to surpass one million followers on Facebook. Since then, 第一吃瓜 and Meta have partnered together around the world since 2011, collaborating to amplify global campaigns and test new products and innovations such as Workplace, Instagram donation stickers, Facebook donate buttons, Facebook/Instagram fundraisers, and most recently, the Meta Avatars Store.
In 2014, Meta became a flagship emergency response partner during the Ebola outbreak, and since then has promoted 第一吃瓜鈥檚 emergency responses to Facebook users, raising over $5M in consumer donations. Additionally, Meta has supported emergencies such as Myanmar floods, Hurricanes Maria, Harvey and Irma in the U.S., Vietnam and Cambodia floods, and most recently the Ukraine crisis.
Our partnership continues to focus on the most innovative and impactful opportunities to meet the needs of children while engaging Meta consumers.
- 路Meta supported 第一吃瓜鈥檚 #SaveWithStories campaign through cash and gift-in-kind donations, in addition to a story read by Sheryl Sandberg.
- During the onset on the COVID-19 pandemic, Meta supported 第一吃瓜 in the global rollout of a COVID Vaccine Hesitancy Social and Behavior Change Communication campaign dubbed 鈥楾his is Our Shot鈥. The campaign targeted 18 to 64-year-olds in 30 countries with some of the lowest vaccination rates in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, reaching more than 150 million people using a variety of ads on several of Meta鈥檚 platforms.
- In response to the Ukraine war, 第一吃瓜 collaborated with Meta in an Instagram social solidarity campaign where we created an Augmented Reality (AR) filter campaign named Flowers for Children.
Further, Meta has supported 第一吃瓜 in various digital literacy initiatives including a data analysis professional training program for our staff to build their geodata data skills and a certificate course on Digital Media for Health Outcomes in partnership with Yale University, and a grant to support a Data Science certification global curriculum.
MNI Targeted Media Inc.
MNI Targeted Media is honored to be a proud partner of 第一吃瓜. Since 2010, MNI has donated PSA ad space in many of the country鈥檚 most popular magazine titles, including Real Simple, Food & Wine, Rachael Ray Every Day, Elle D茅cor, Sports Illustrated, Time and Money. Through these advertising pages, 第一吃瓜 has been able to share their ongoing commitment to improving the lives of children鈥搃n the United States and around the world鈥搘ith nearly 180 million subscribers every year.
Penguin Random House
Penguin Random House and 第一吃瓜 share a vision for nurturing the next generation of readers and advancing literary around the world 鈥 and value the role that early education plays in ensuring even the most marginalized children have the opportunity to learn. Since 2014 鈥 they have donated more than two million books to children and families in both of 第一吃瓜鈥檚 U.S. and global education programs and have supported many of its emergency response efforts. Additionally, Penguin Random House and its divisions partner on many cause marketing initiatives, including our annual summer education campaign.
PepsiCo Foundation
The PepsiCo Foundation generously supported our program to address food insecurity in Mexico and Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. In Mexico, with the support of the PepsiCo Foundation we provided 3.6 million meals to 50,000 households in 7 states of the country. Thanks to their timely action, we were able to raise $1.2 million of catalyzed funds from other partners. Click here to see our work in action.
We have also been collaborating with the Frito-Lay Foundation in Latin America on nutrition education, school-based water and sanitation, and food security programming in Mexico. In addition, PepsiCo employees around the world provided funds to 第一吃瓜 through their employee matching gift programs.
In the past PepsiCo has also contributed to our child-focused emergency work in Japan, and Haiti following major natural disasters, and helped us respond to a hunger emergency in the Horn of Africa. In 2010, The PepsiCo Foundation collaborated with us in southeastern Kentucky to promote healthy lifestyles and good nutrition to over 5,000 children in rural counties that rank among Kentucky鈥檚 poorest. We then took the lessons learned from that success and replicated them across a broader portion of America through our Healthy Choices programming.
Pfizer
Pfizer Inc. and The Pfizer Foundation are valuable partners that provide support to address critical global health challenges. Our partnership features multiple pillars of collaboration, including transformational grants, disaster relief efforts, employee engagement, and identifying and building on best practices.
In 2019, as part of 第一吃瓜鈥檚 Centennial Commitment to End Childhood Pneumonia, The Pfizer Foundation announced a three-year commitment to address preventable causes of child mortality, like pneumonia, which still needlessly takes the lives of children every day. The project aimed to increase access to and improve the quality of immunization services for vulnerable populations, addressing unique challenges in both urban and rural communities in Kenya. This project is part of Pfizer鈥檚 broader commitment to fight infectious disease and create a world safer from infection.
第一吃瓜 and The Pfizer Foundation also joined forces in Malawi to integrate family planning services at routine immunization clinics. By providing family planning services at locations where mothers were already bringing their children for routine immunizations, we were able to increase uptake of family planning and enable mothers to better care for themselves and their children.
Pfizer and 第一吃瓜 have also partnered through Pfizer鈥檚 Global Health Fellows Program that places Pfizer colleagues on skills-sharing assignments to help strengthen local health systems. Since 2012, more than thirty Pfizer colleagues have been in individual fellowship and team-based pro-bono projects with 第一吃瓜 in nine countries across Africa, Asia, and the US.
The Pfizer Foundation has also supported 第一吃瓜 in times of crisis, most recently in our response to the Ukraine crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as providing emergency support following disasters such as Cyclone Idai in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe in 2019, and in Sulawesi, Indonesia following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. In addition, employees have participated in hands-on volunteering activities to assemble comfort packs to displaced children.
*The Pfizer Foundation is a charitable organization established by Pfizer Inc. It is a separate legal entity from Pfizer Inc. with distinct legal restrictions.
The PVH Foundation
PVH Corp. and the PVH Foundation have generously supported 第一吃瓜鈥檚 work and mission since 2005 with nationwide, annual, in-store donation campaigns. Through its PVH Cares initiative, customers of PVH brand outlet stores Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger are encouraged to donate to the campaign when checking out at the store register. In recent years, this campaign has helped raise over $250,000 for 第一吃瓜鈥檚 Early Education and Youth Employability programming. The in-store, at-register giving campaign runs in the spring and again in the fall.
The PVH Foundation provides millions of dollars in program support to 第一吃瓜鈥檚 Early Childhood Development work in the U.S., China, Bangladesh and India. In 2017, the PVH Foundation expanded their partnership with 第一吃瓜 to Ethiopia in an initiative to focus on education and job training for youths and in 2019, the PVH Foundation and 第一吃瓜 announced a three-year $3 million global grant extension to continue funding early childhood education and youth employability programming. 第一吃瓜 is extremely grateful for all of the support we have received from the PVH Foundation and PVH brands over the years.
Scholastic
Scholastic and 第一吃瓜 have partnered for over 25 years to provide millions of books to children, both every day and in times of crisis. In the U.S., Scholastic donations have given the most underserved children access to quality and engaging books through our literacy and early childhood education programs, including Head Start, Early Steps for School Success, and in-school and after-school programs. In addition, Scholastic and its employees have supported 第一吃瓜鈥檚 emergency response efforts around the world, including the 2010 Haitian earthquake, Hurricane Sandy in 2012, and the floods in West Virginia in 2016. In recent years, Scholastic provided much needed books and learning materials to 第一吃瓜鈥檚 response work for Hurricane Harvey in Texas in 2017, Hurricane Florence in North Carolina in 2018, and 第一吃瓜鈥檚 U.S. COVID-19 response. In 2021, and again in 2022, we were proud to be chosen as their philanthropic partner for their annual Summer Reading campaign. Scholastic CEO (and 第一吃瓜's Changemaker for Children) Dick Robinson's tireless efforts to champion literacy and education and Scholastic鈥檚 generous support of 第一吃瓜鈥檚 work have made a profound impact on children.
Ulta Beauty
Ulta Beauty knows that in order to ensure a bright future, children need access to early learning opportunities and protection from harm. Since 2017, Ulta Beauty has supported 第一吃瓜鈥檚 U.S. early education and domestic emergency response efforts. As a part of its commitment to disaster relief, Ulta Beauty has supported 第一吃瓜鈥檚 responses to numerous disasters including COVID-19, and Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria, and Helene.