UNICEF Champion for Children is a network of Irish SMEs helping children across the world to survive, thrive, and realise their potential.
Every child, no matter their background, deserves a bright future. Whatever your size, your business can play an important role in helping UNICEF support children in over 190 countries to survive, thrive, and realise their potential.
Join other Irish businesses and be part of a powerful network of Irish SMEs helping UNICEF to achieve the greatest impact for children.
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Better ESG, brighter futures for children
Children are everyone’s business – for UNICEF sustainability and responsible business strategies, like ESG, are incomplete if children’s considerations are not at their heart.
Childhood is a unique period of physical, mental, and emotional development. Business support for children can have long lasting beneficial impacts on their lives, communities, and economies.
If you believe business is a force for good, join Champion for Children. Your support helps UNICEF work in the harshest conditions and most remote locations, pioneering solutions to some of the biggest challenges for children.
In an ever-changing world, thanks to your support and contribution to UNICEF’s Champion for Children, it is possible for every child to have a chance to live a better life.
Be a partner for every child. Join Champions for Children.
With its accessible and flexible membership offerings, Champion for Children provides companies with a unique opportunity to make a global impact for children through two levels of commitment with regular contributions.
- Champion for Children Silver Members commit from €200 per month (€2,400 annually) to support children
- Champion for Children Gold Members commit from €400 per month (€4,800 annually) to support children
As new challenges arise across the world, our work for children increasingly requires predictable and flexible funding.
- €200 a month can provide enough vaccines to give 90 children life-long protection from polio and measles
- €400 a month can provide three first aid kits and emergency supplies to help mothers and babies in danger
- €2,400 a year can provide 6-months of emergency food for over 100 children suffering from acute malnutrition every year
- €4,800 a year can supply 100 Emergency Family Water & Hygiene Kits to provide clean drinking water and stop the spread of diseases
As a Champion for Children member, UNICEF will provide you with the material you need to show your community you're giving back.
This includes:
- The official UNICEF Champion for Children branding and materials (logo, certificate, copy, images) to showcase your company’s efforts in creating positive change for children worldwide
- Updates on how your donation is saving lives and supporting families and communities
- Confidence that your investment is supporting a globally recognised organisation which has scale to make a difference in the lives of children
Who can become a Champion for Children?
- All companies seeking to join the Champion for Children programme must have been in business for a minimum of one year or can provide confidence through profit statements of the business’ capacity to make regular contributions.
- UNICEF Ireland does not allow access to our database to help publish or sell artwork, clothing, unpublished songs or events.
- Exclusionary criteria: UNICEF will not accept donations from companies or groups of companies involved in the manufacturing and marketing of weapons, alcohol, tobacco and tobacco-derived products, electronic cigarettes, milk powder formulas violating the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes, or from gambling or adult content-related companies.
