Grants
Our Approach
Our grantmaking model is designed to identify and champion organizations that build resilience in children and families. We leverage a unique, multidisciplinary collaboration: HFC Academic Consultants, a global network of social welfare experts, lead HFC Grants Committees composed of dedicated professionals from the Alternative Investment industry. This model ensures our investments target rigorously effective and high-impact programs with proven solutions that protect children and strengthen communities worldwide.
Backed By Academic Excellence
HFC’s commitment to protecting children and families is anchored by a unique academic collaboration that ensures local relevance and optimal impact. HFC’s Academic Consultants are social welfare experts and faculty from local universities in our grantmaking locations. Their extensive social work training and local ties provide unparalleled knowledge of the specific organizations, initiatives, and needs on the ground. This rigorous, locally informed network creates a global brain trust that powerfully vets every grant, guaranteeing our funding supports the most effective, community-strengthening programs focused on protecting children and families worldwide.
To learn more about our Academic Consultants, visit About Help For Children (HFC) | Our Mission to Protect Children.
Our Grants History
Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights
To advocate for the best interests of the most vulnerable unaccompanied and separated immigrant children in federal detention and post release in the greater NY area but still in deportation proceedings through the provision of independent Child Advocates
Women Aware, Inc.
To promote well-being and helps children recover from the effects of domestic violence with the goal of reducing trauma by helping children communicate, plan for their safety, develop coping mechanisms, problem solve and change negative behaviors
Westchester Medical Center Foundation
To assist children, youth, teen victims with comprehensive trauma informed and victim centered advocacy services to assist them on a path to healing
The New York Foundling
To make mental health services accessible to children & families through public schools
Hetrick-Martin Institute
To reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety among LGBTQIA+ youth by providing comprehensive, trauma-informed mental health care and expanding access to screenings, counseling, psychiatric support, and wraparound services that foster resilience and support their transition into adulthood
Deirdre O’Brien Child Advocacy Center (Deirdre’s House)
To reduce child victim’s syntomology ( ie. self-harm, sexualized behavior, suicidal ideation) preventing revictimization, and successfully eliminating signs of trauma
The Children’s Law Center
To reduce trauma in children living in The Bronx, New York who have been impacted by domestic violence, sexual abuse or other abuse
Safe Horizon
To improve mental health and treat symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder exclusively for survivors of crime and abuse, with a particular focus on children, through trauma-focused psychotherapy that restores them on their developmental trajectory after the destabilizing effects of violence and abuse.
Research Foundation of CUNY o/b/o John Jay College of Criminal Justice
To train community-based mental health clinicians to deliver TF-CBT to Asian American children in community clinics, reducing trauma-related impacts and enhancing capacity for continued delivery of culturally responsive and high-quality trauma care.