From The Independent:
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"Amy Goldman, a philanthropist and chief executive and chair of the GHR Foundation, believes innovation combined with some optimism and solidarity can contribute to solving at least some of the greatest social issues facing our world today.
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“There’s an overarching problem that spans across various areas we work on. It’s a lack of solidarity in the world, a lack of understanding that we are all one human family,” she told The Independent. “I think optimism is key for this work to be effective. It’s because of the quality of our internal team and our partners that we are continuing to reimagine what’s possible and not just going for the status quo.”"

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From The New York Times:

"The study aimed to show that Alzheimer’s disease could be stopped if treatment began before symptoms emerged. The participants were the best candidates that scientists could find: still healthy, but with a rare genetic mutation that guaranteed they would develop dementia.

Now, the verdict is in: The drugs did nothing to slow or stop cognitive decline in these subjects, dashing the hopes of scientists.
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The results are a deep disappointment, scientists said — but not a knockout punch. The drugs did not work, but the problems may be fixable: perhaps the doses were too low, or they should have been given to patients much younger."

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GHR has a commitment to prioritizing care for vulnerable persons, whether they are children separated from the nurturing care of their families, or Alzheimer’s patients marginalized by the disease’s debilitating effects.

As we reaffirm and formalize our commitment to care, we have adopted enhanced safeguarding policies and developing a holistic safeguarding organizational structure and practices that will be integral to our everyday work. GHR’s new policies include our:

• Child and Vulnerable Persons Protection Policy, informed by international best practice that sets out clear expectations for our Board, Committee members, Officers and all staff; and
• Code of Conduct, that prioritizes organizational integrity and the care and protection of the communities we serve and has a zero-tolerance approach to violations.

​GHR has also supported the development of the FADICA Funder Safeguarding Pledge [download .pdf], and became a signatory to the Pledge in January 2020. Our adoption of the Pledge underscores our ongoing commitments to the protection of vulnerable persons and will help guide our ongoing efforts to strengthen and maintain a culture of proactive, holistic safeguarding across GHR.  As a signatory to the pledge, GHR will be able to leverage key resources, trainings, and consultation from national abuse prevention experts to strengthen our safeguarding efforts and align ourselves with other funders. 

Furthermore, GHR is partnering with Keeping Children Safe, the world’s leading global network committed to safeguarding vulnerable children from exploitation and abuse. KCS will conduct an internal audit of our policies, practices, systems; as well as assist GHR in building a roadmap for establishing a holistic safeguarding organizational structure and explore new ways to bring training and support to our partners.

True safeguarding demands that each of us as funders and service providers critically consider how we might best care for all the lives that our internal and external work impacts — from our own staff to the individuals among our partner organizations, and the lives of those we hope to benefit at the community level.

GHR encourages our peers and partners to join us in every effort to bring greater accountability, transparency, and comprehensive safeguarding to working in service of all children and vulnerable persons everywhere.

From Forbes:

"There are more than 70 million displaced people—refugees—around the world. A social impact and innovation contest called the BridgeBuilder Challenge identified five social enterprises around the world making a difference for that huge population.
The challenge was organized by OpenIDEO, the open innovation practice at IDEO, in partnership with the GHR Foundation, which focuses on design-build models for philanthropy."

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From La Noticia: 

"Estamos profundamente agradecidos con todo nuestro personal extraordinario, voluntarios, socios de la comunidad, donantes y participantes que han creído y contribuido al programa FaithAction ID a lo largo de los años. Es sorprendente ver cómo este pequeño proyecto piloto que comenzó en Greensboro ahora resuena como una solución innovadora para servir, amar y proteger mejor a las personas en movimiento en todo el mundo", agregó Fraccaro.

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From The Guardian: 

"Where was the Upside?
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At the BridgeBuilder Awards, which doled out $1m in seed funding for ideas to help refugees and displaced people." 

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From News & Record: 

​"FaithAction International House has won a share of a $1 million prize for its innovative and thoughtful approach for getting immigrants, the homeless and others a form of identification that's recognized by agencies — populations that typically don't have the necessary documents needed to get traditional forms of ID.

​The international BridgeBuilder 2019 Top Ideas competition sought out new approaches to some of the world's most urgent needs involving migrants and refugees."

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GHR envisions a world in which all children—especially those without, or at risk of losing, parental care—are living in a stable, positive, long-term family. Global research demonstrates that children raised in families have better cognitive, emotional and social outcomes than those living outside family care.

Recognizing that advancing this vision required learning from those already in the field, GHR partnered with Alia Innovations, a Saint Paul-based organization driving transformative change for the people and systems entrusted with the welfare and care of children.

Collaboration with Alia illuminated a clear need in the care sector for an accessible, easily applicable, universal messaging system around the long-term benefits of family care for children. Turning to the Frameworks Institute in Washington, D.C, GHR and Alia worked to develop simple, compelling, and far-reaching messaging strategies to advance their common efforts to preserve family connections around the globe, while simultaneously spreading this call to action to partners worldwide.

GHR hosted a webinar in May 2019, led by the Frameworks Institute, to share with partners in the space the initial messages and framing strategies -- interrogating the ideas behind them, and generating critical discussion and feedback. Language was added around attachment and love as an angle of the brain architecture, a message that FrameWorks found to be effective among broader audiences. 
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Based on these resultant recommendations, Frameworks then crafted a day-long workshop for advocates in the care sector, covering framing techniques aimed at ensuring that specific, clear messaging was communicated to relevant audiences in a manner that was persuasive and easily applicable. Held a few days prior to the Elevate Children Funder’s Group Annual General Meeting, several members of ECFG were in attendance, creating a space where advocates could share their personal experiences and learnings.

The next steps in this process include using these framing recommendations for future communications around family strengthening and care for children, and supporting initiatives doing the same.  

From Thomas Reuters Foundation News:

"Syrian businesswoman Souad Nanaa, a refugee who co-founded SAMA for All, said she wanted to promote cultural exchange.

"In the minds of the people, culture is for the elite – it's not for all," she said by phone from Paris.

"I decided to take on this challenge because of my belief that these people have their own culture, and exchange of culture among people is very good."
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