Child Impact Hub

For locally led organizations working with children and families

Power belongs close to children and families.

Child Impact Hub connects locally led organizations, funders, and researchers. Together, we move practice, evidence, and funding closer to where the work happens.

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Independent actors. Collective movement. Locally rooted impact.

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Families and children together

The problem

Too often, the people closest to children have the least say.

Funding, evidence, and decisions usually sit far from where children and families live. Local organizations do the work. Too rarely do they hold the direction.

Child Impact Hub moves that closer. Not by building a new head office — by building the conditions for locally led organizations to lead, learn, and grow together.

How we work together

Six commitments that hold this community together.

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Those closest lead.

Children, families, and local organizations hold leadership. Everyone else supports.

Radical equality.

Decision power flows by proximity to the work, not by funding size.

Safeguarding, no exceptions.

Protecting children is the foundation, not one value among others.

Radical learning.

Evidence circulates as learning. Honest failure carries no penalty.

Proximity over distance.

Language, governance, and resourcing move closer to families.

Principles over rules.

We commit to a way of working, not to a rulebook.

Find your way in

However you work with children and families, there is a place here.

For local organizations

You already do this work. Here is how to do it together.

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For funders and investors

Fund through locally governed infrastructure. Your capital reaches families faster.

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For researchers and partners

Shared learning systems, and a network of practitioners.

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For advocates and allies

Help build a sector where local leaders hold the centre.

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Already building this together

Ten organizations, four continents, one shared direction.

Each one already works with children and families in its own country. Together, we are building the shared ground this page describes.

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Coming up

The Murmuration — our annual gathering.

Not a general assembly. Not a conference. A gathering where everyone contributes.

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A family in their home

Every member holds to the same standard for children.

Every organization in this community commits to the same child safeguarding protocol, grounded in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child — with zero tolerance for looking away.

Ready to build this together?

Tell us about your work. We will tell you what comes next.

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