Help for Children (aka HFC fka Hedge Funds Care, Inc)

330 7th Avenue, Suite 2B | New York, NY 10001

From the foundation Website:

Mission

Hedge Funds Care, also known as Help For Children (HFC), is an international charity, supported largely by the hedge fund industry, whose sole mission is preventing and treating child abuse. It has 2 goals:

• To raise as much money as possible to fund the programs that do the preventing and treating.
• To showcase the philanthropy of the hedge fund and finance industries.

This mission is accomplished by raising money and granting it to child welfare organizations throughout the United States, Canada, the Cayman Islands, and the United Kingdom. Help For Children is the only grant making public charity that focuses exclusively on funding this cause. Since its inception in 1998, HFC has awarded over 1,000 grants totaling more than $37 million.

In the U.S., fundraising events are currently held in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, and San Francisco. Events are also held in Grand Cayman, London, Toronto, and Ireland. Money raised is distributed locally to community-based nonprofit organizations that address child abuse in the following ways:

• EDUCATION to enhance awareness and understanding of abuse and
neglect for children, parents, and professionals in the community
• PREVENTION services to at-risk children and families
• INTERVENTIONS for children who have been physically or sexually
abused and support services to non-offending family members
• RESEARCH on best practices in child welfare
• ADVOCACY to improve child welfare
• TRAINING to equip paraprofessionals and professionals to provide
child abuse prevention and treatment services

Historically some awards have provided support to ongoing program services while others have targeted specific, time-limited projects. For example, we can fund ongoing therapy programs, but we can also fund the writing of a sexual abuse prevention workbook.