Starting the Global Fund for Children
Posted: January 30, 2011
Starting the Global Fund for Children
Maya Ajmera is the founder and president of The Global Fund for Children (GFC), a philanthropic intermediary that makes small grants to innovative, community-based organizations working with some of the world’s most vulnerable children and youth. GFC has awarded 2,606 grants, totaling over $15.3 million, to 376 grassroots organizations in 73 countries. She takes us back to the beginning, and tells us how she started The Global Fund for Children. She claims that inexperience and extraordinary belief were her strongest assets.
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