Books & Literacy
Story-driven book campaigns, literacy outreach, and classroom support.
Team GFC Workspace
See how your work at GFC connects to the mission.
Giving Foundation for Children has developed programs, initiatives, campaign tools, fundraising systems, and an internal Workspace to organize the work behind its mission.
Our current focus is building Team GFC — fellows, volunteers, and contributors who can help move that work forward through partnerships, community outreach, research, coordination, grants, documentation, and program execution.
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Programs
How GFC organizes its mission
Programs define the areas where GFC is building sustained capacity and child-focused work.
Community Outreach
Direct community support, family assistance, and local outreach response.
Nonprofit & Community Partnerships
Relationships with child-focused nonprofits, schools, sponsors, and local supporters.
Special Needs Awareness
Inclusive storytelling, awareness, and support for children with special needs and their families.
Volunteer & Fellowship Engagement
Internal systems, fellow onboarding, volunteer coordination, and Team GFC community engagement.
Fellow Roles
Ways to contribute
These are Team GFC's seven baseline fellowship roles. GFC may promote only a subset of these on Handshake at any given time — anyone interested in a role below is welcome to reach out or continue the questionnaire.
Grants & Fundraising Fellow
Supports grant and sponsor research, source documentation, fundraising materials, and pipeline tracking.
View role →Marketing & Communications Fellow
Supports GFC communications, outreach, content coordination, and mission-aligned storytelling.
View role →Nonprofit & Community Partnerships Fellow
Supports research, outreach, relationship tracking, and approved coordination with nonprofit and community organizations.
View role →Nonprofit Strategy & Operations Fellow
Supports organizational strategy, operating systems, process improvement, and internal coordination.
View role →Programs & Impact Fellow
Supports Program and Campaign documentation, evidence organization, updates, metrics, and honest impact reporting.
View role →Project Management Fellow
Supports project planning, milestones, dependencies, follow-up, documentation, and reporting.
View role →Volunteer & Fellowship Engagement Fellow
Supports Fellow and volunteer onboarding, contributor coordination, check-ins, internal guidance, and participant experience.
View role →Initiatives
Programs become focused initiatives
An initiative turns a Program into coordinated work with a defined purpose.
Books & Literacy
Initiative5,000 Books for Children & Classrooms
Pinellas County / Tampa Bay pilot focused on books, storytelling, awareness, and classroom support.
Community Outreach
InitiativeCommunity Response & Family Support
Direct family and community support response campaigns.
Nonprofit & Community Partnerships
InitiativeChild-Focused Nonprofit Partnerships
Identify and develop relationships with trusted local organizations serving children and families.
Nonprofit & Community Partnerships
InitiativeCorporate & Community Partnerships
Build a practical pipeline of businesses, foundations, and supporters interested in child-focused community campaigns.
Special Needs Awareness
InitiativeInclusive Stories & Awareness
Inclusive storytelling and awareness campaigns for children with special needs and their families.
Volunteer & Fellowship Engagement
InitiativeFellow Onboarding Pilot
Improve the internal systems and guidance used by future fellows and volunteers.
Volunteer & Fellowship Engagement
InitiativeTeam GFC Community Engagement
Coordinate Team GFC volunteer service and community engagement activities.
Team GFC Campaign Lab — V1
Explore sample Campaign scenarios
The Campaign Lab is used for training, experimentation, and feedback. It lets fellows explore how a Program becomes an Initiative, and how an Initiative can carry one or more Campaigns with partnerships, fundraising, updates, and impact reporting.
These are illustrative demo campaigns.
Organizations and scenarios shown in examples do not represent current GFC partnerships unless explicitly stated.
No real donations are accepted by demo campaigns.
Program
Books & Literacy
Story-driven book campaigns, literacy outreach, and classroom support.
2 demo campaigns
Initiative
5,000 Books for Children & Classrooms
- School District Classroom Book Drive View demo campaign
- Walmart Community Literacy Campaign (Hypothetical) View demo campaign
Program
Community Outreach
Direct community support, family assistance, and local outreach response.
2 demo campaigns
Initiative
Community Response & Family Support
- Local Family Resource Support Campaign View demo campaign
- Tampa Bay Families Community Support Response View demo campaign
Program
Nonprofit & Community Partnerships
Relationships with child-focused nonprofits, schools, sponsors, and local supporters.
4 demo campaigns
Initiative
Child-Focused Nonprofit Partnerships
- Local Child-Focused Nonprofit Fundraiser View demo campaign
Initiative
Corporate & Community Partnerships
- Corporate Sponsor Matching Gift Campaign View demo campaign
- Red Cross Child & Family Relief Collaboration (Hypothetical Scenario) View demo campaign
- Save the Children Collaboration (Hypothetical Scenario) View demo campaign
Program
Special Needs Awareness
Inclusive storytelling, awareness, and support for children with special needs and their families.
2 demo campaigns
Initiative
Inclusive Stories & Awareness
- Inclusive Reading Week View demo campaign
- Target Inclusive Storytelling Campaign (Hypothetical) View demo campaign
Program
Volunteer & Fellowship Engagement
Internal systems, fellow onboarding, volunteer coordination, and Team GFC community engagement.
2 demo campaigns
Example Work
Illustrative examples of how fellows may contribute
These are curated examples, not current or completed Fellow projects.
Research Pinellas County literacy organizations
- Program:
- Books & Literacy
- Initiative:
- 5,000 Books for Children & Classrooms
Identify potential nonprofits, schools, libraries, and community organizations that may be relevant to future outreach or book distribution.
Possible deliverables
- Organization research
- Public contact information
- Source links
- Concise recommendation
Build a community partnership prospect list
- Program:
- Nonprofit & Community Partnerships
Research child-focused nonprofits, schools, libraries, and community organizations whose missions may align with GFC programs.
Possible deliverables
- Prospective organization list
- Public contact information
- Mission and alignment notes
- Recommended next steps
Prepare a sponsor and grant research brief
- Program:
- Nonprofit & Community Partnerships
Research potential community sponsors or grant opportunities that may support GFC programs and outreach.
Possible deliverables
- Opportunity summary
- Eligibility and source documentation
- Relevant deadlines when available
- Concise recommendation
See another side of GFC
Campaigns connect the work to the public
Campaigns turn programs and initiatives into public-facing fundraising, storytelling, outreach, and reporting. Fellows may help with campaign research, sponsor outreach, documentation, updates, coordination, and impact reporting.
The Campaign Lab has illustrative demo campaigns you can explore right now.
How We Work
Defined work, progress, and review
You won’t just “help with nonprofit work.” Fellows receive clearly defined projects, understand why the work matters, submit deliverables, provide progress updates, receive review and feedback, and see how their contribution connects to GFC’s programs.
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GFC Feedback
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Team GFC
How Fellows contribute at GFC
Fellows receive clearly defined projects and work through Team GFC Workspace, complete most deliverables in approved Google Docs, Sheets, or Drive locations, share progress and blockers, submit work for review, and receive feedback through completion.
Team GFC is designed to support structured, collaborative work across locations.
- Step 1
Receive a clear project
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Post progress and blockers
- Step 3
Submit the deliverable for review
- Step 4
Respond to feedback or revisions
- Step 5
Complete the work
Join Team GFC
Why GFC is building Team GFC
GFC has already developed programs, campaign infrastructure, fundraising tools, and operating systems. The next challenge is execution.
Fellows may help move this work forward through
- Nonprofit and community-partner research
- Outreach and relationship development
- Project coordination
- Grant and sponsor research
- Program documentation
- Campaign support
- Impact tracking and reporting
Questionnaire
Interested in joining Team GFC?
Continue the fellowship questionnaire to tell us what interests you, how you work, and what you hope to contribute.
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