Child Family Health International
Description: Child Family Health International (CFHI) builds and strengthens sustainable healthcare services for underserved communities worldwide through international service-learning health electives, grants, and donated medical supplies.
Target demographics: Our clients are health science students from anywhere in the world. To date, we have enrolled students from 40 countries in our global health education programs.
The fees our students pay go to support the local underserved communities where we work and with whom we partner. Our overhead is 4.8% (2007 independent audit)
Direct beneficiaries per year: 800+ students and 250+ CFHI community partners (doctors and businesses, NGOs)
Geographic areas served: Worldwide, with a focus on the US, Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, South Africa, and India
Board Members and Affiliation: For details, please visit: http://www.cfhi.org/web/index.php/home/aboutus#
-->20+ sites in 5 countries (Bolivia, Ecuador, India, Mexico, South Africa)
-->5,000+ health science students have completed programs to date
-->Supports & works with 250+ medical professionals around the world
-->Donated over $9 million in medical supplies/equipment
-->Offers professional development opportunities to global medical partners
-->Has Institutional Partnerships, including Stanford Medical School, Duke School of Nursing, Harvard University (College Corps), UC Davis
-->Annual Budget: $4.1million; overhead: 4.8%
-->Awarded Special Consultative Status with the United Nations (ECOSOC) Economic and Social Council, July 2008
