Advocate for UNICEF
We need supporters across the United States to support funding and policies that improve outcomes for children globally. U.S. assistance is critical to ensuring every child is healthy, educated, protected and respected. Join us and make your voice heard by Members of Congress.
Advocate With Congress to Put Children First
UNICEF is the world's leading voice for children and works relentlessly to shape a better world for every child. In support of that vital work, UNICEF USA advocates for funding and policies that improve outcomes for children globally while also advancing U.S. safety, security and prosperity.
Send a message to your legislators today to tell them why children matter to us all.
Together, we can tell Congress that UNICEF's work is critical to building a safer and more prosperous future for children — around the world and here at home.
How UNICEF USA’s Advocacy Works
UNICEF USA believes every child should be healthy, educated, protected and respected. Our advocacy emphasizes the importance of investing in development and humanitarian assistance and elevates youth voices in governance and decision-making. UNICEF USA's Global Policy and Public Affairs team, based in Washington, D.C., urges the U.S. Government and other decision-makers to take action to protect and empower children.
UNICEF USA’s Advocacy Priorities
Opportunity for Every Child
- Increasing access to education for children — especially those living in conflict zones or displaced by conflict — to provide stability and counter extremism
- Mobilizing support for programs that help lift children and families out of poverty, including those that support early childhood development
Health and Nutrition for Every Child
- Supporting Food for Peace, a program where American farmers grow and sell crops that provides lifesaving emergency food assistance across the world.
- Amplifying UNICEF’s role at the forefront of global efforts to eliminate child malnutrition, including its procurement of 75 to 80 percent of the world’s ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF), a nutrient-rich, peanut-based paste used to treat millions of children suffering from severe malnutrition every year, a quarter of which is made in the United States
Safety for Every Child
- Encouraging governments at all levels to protect children from violence and alleviate the circumstances that force families to flee their homes
- Advocating for federal funding for flexible humanitarian assistance that benefits the most vulnerable children including chronically underfunded emergencies
Respect for Every Child
- Drive widespread child-centered governance fueled by youth action
- Ensure that young people are included in policymaking and decisions affecting them
Effective Global Partnerships
- Partnerships with governments, private philanthropies, faith-based organizations and corporations support UNICEF's work and help us maximize investments in children
- Continued support and coordination with the US Government for lifesaving UNICEF core resource through the annual appropriations process
UNICEF USA’s Guiding Principles
As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, UNICEF USA is strictly nonpartisan. Our unwavering focus on results for children has helped secure strong bipartisan support for UNICEF in the U.S. Congress and across the country.
Our advocacy campaigns are built on three principles:
- We are child-focused.
- We are nonpartisan.
- We are results-oriented.
When You Speak Up For Children, Legislators Listen
Together, our advocacy will affect positive change for every child.
