World Vision, Inc.
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Saving lives in the wake of disaster, World Vision stands ready to protect children and families by offering critical help within 24 to 72 hours of disaster. Our 37,000 staff in nearly 100 countries are committed to helping families rebuild. Creating Hope of today and tomorrow, World Vision is passionate about seeing every child break free from poverty and reach their God given potential. Our unique development model offers a full solution to the puzzle of poverty, enabling real and lasting change for children and families.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
International Programs
The Organization partners with families and communities around the world to find ways to overcome poverty, helping them obtain sustainable access to basic resources and services such as clean water, food assistance, agricultural training, healthcare, economic development, child protection, and other goods and services. One of the Organization's primary funding sources for this work is child sponsorship, through which the Organization's staff in impoverished communities seek to improve children's physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being through a relationship with their sponsorship donor. Additionally, the Organization responds to natural and man-made disasters to save lives and help restore livelihoods.
Domestic Programs
The Organization works with local churches, ministry partners, teachers, business owners, students, and volunteers throughout the United States as they seek to serve distressed communities and neighborhoods in a variety of U.S. locations. This work is carried out in part through the Organization's network of product distribution centers, emergency and disaster relief efforts, and tutoring and youth development programs.
Public Awareness and Education
The Organization seeks to help government officials and the public gain awareness and take action on poverty and justice-related issues. World Vision advocates on behalf of children and the poor to increase understanding of issues, involvement in solutions, and prayer.
Where we work
Affiliations & memberships
Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance - Organization
Evangelical Council of Financial Accountability - Member
InterAction - Member
Christian Management Association (CMA)
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of disaster survivors and refugees assisted
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
International Programs
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
More than 90 percent of natural disaster-related deaths occur in developing countries, where poverty and lack of resources exacerbate the suffering. WV works in many of these countries.
Number of people reached with improved water access
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
International Programs
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Nearly 1,000 children under age 5 die every day from diarrhea caused by contaminated water, poor sanitation, and improper hygiene. We believe the global water crisis can be solved within our lifetimes
Number of people assisted with food security and resilience
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Families
Related Program
International Programs
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
One in 8 people in the world do not have enough to eat & are unable to grow enough food. In 2022 we used 126.7 million in food grants, including 156,226 metric tons of food supplies to feed the hungry
Number of microloan borrowers
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
International Programs
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Decreasing
Context Notes
1.3 billion people worldwide are living on less than $1.25 a day. That’s why we facilitate savings groups, improve market development, and provide access to microfinance.
U.S. Funded Education Programs
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
World Vision U.S. funded education programs reached over 1 million children worldwide.
Number of practicing Community Health Workers as a result of the organization's efforts
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
We have supported and trained over 184,000 community health workers in 46 countries and have reached 32.5 million people with disease prevention training, treatment and support.
Goals & Strategy
Reports and documents
Download strategic planLearn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
WVUS Call to Action
We are about growing God's kingdom. We do this by inspiring, empowering and enabling supporters to partner with World Vision and the most vulnerable communities, families, and their children to bring about Jesus' promise of fullness of life. (John 10:10)
WVUS Cultural Characteristics
1. Urgency (Job 29:11‐12)
2. Excellence (Colossians 3:23‐24)
3. Integrity (2 Corinthians 8:21)
4. Humility (2 Corinthians 4:7)
5. Unity (Ephesians 4:11‐13)
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
World Vision is an international partnership of Christians whose mission is to follow our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in working with the poor and oppressed to promote human transformation, seek justice, and bear witness to the good news of the Kingdom of God.
We pursue this mission through integrated, holistic commitment to:
Transformational development that is community-based and sustainable, focused especially on the needs of children.
Disaster relief that assists people afflicted by conflict or disaster.
Promotion of justice that seeks to change unjust structures affecting the poor among whom we work.
Partnerships with churches to contribute to spiritual and social transformation.
Public awareness that leads to informed understanding, giving, involvement, and prayer.
Witness to Jesus Christ by life, deed, word, and sign that encourages people to respond to the Gospel.
Our Model for Implementing Programs:
Measurably improving child well-being is at the center of our approach to child and community development. This is our Theory of Change:
Problem: Poverty exists largely because of broken relationships.
Assumption: Children are not only a community's most precious resource, they are also central to addressing poverty overall. How a community treats its children will have major implications for its health and well-being overall.
Proposed Solution: In order to address poverty, we must work with children, their caregivers, and other stakeholders in the community to restore broken relationships and focus them on the sustained well-being of children.
Over the years, we've redesigned and refined our framework based on what we've learned from working and collaborating with children, families, communities and experts around the world.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We use a logical framework to describe program and project cycle management through six basic components: assessment, design, monitoring, evaluation, reflection and transition. Our principles and approaches describe vital elements that need to be in place in order to achieve our goal. Our approach differs depending on the problem we are addressing. We adjust our approach when it requires different interventions, recognizing that our approach to maternal health will be different than our approach to malaria.
To learn more about our capabilities and model for implementing programs, please visit our website at:
http://www.worldvision.org/about-us/how-we-work/our-model-for-implementing-programs
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Here are some of our results for 2022:
Food
• Used 126.7 million in food grants, including 156,226 metric tons of food supplies, to help nourish children and
families in 15 countries
• Continued to serve as the largest implementing partner of World Food Programme
Water, sanitation, and hygiene
• Helped establish lasting access to clean water for 3 million people, improved sanitation for 2.7 million, and equipped 3.4 million with access to household handwashing facilities
• Constructed or repaired 60,520 wells and water points in communities, schools and health centers, and provided 504,814 household sanitation facilities
Since 2011, together we’ve empowered 31.4 million people with lasting access to clean water. World Vision reaches one new person with clean water every 10 seconds and one new person with handwashing facilities as well.
Health
• Reached 32.5 million people with disease prevention training, treatment and support
• Supported and trained 184,000 community health workers worldwide
Over the last 10 years, 89% of the severely malnourished children we treated made a full recovery.
Emergency response
• Responded to 59 humanitarian emergencies in 52 countries, including the global hunger crisis, the war in Ukraine, and the Afghanistan crisis
• Assisted 27.7 million disaster survivors, refuges, and internally displaced people worldwide, including an estimated 14.3 million children
• Used $127.7 million in public grants and $51.1 million in private donations for global disaster relief efforts
Our presence in nearly 100 countries enables us to quickly provide immediate support in all types of disasters and humanitarian crisis – and we are committed to long-term support, staying to help children, families, and communities recover and rebuild.
Education
• Reached over 1 million children worldwide through education programs funded by World Vision US donors and government grants
In just five years, together we impacted the lives of over 200 million vulnerable children by tackling the root causes of poverty.
Economic empowerment
• Disbursed $706 million in microloans to nearly 1 million borrowers in 28 countries helping improve the lives of 4.7 million children and 1.3 million employees
Through World Vision, every 60 seconds, a family gets water, a hungry child is fed, and a family gets the tools to overcome poverty.
Child protection
• Reached 922,911 people through our child protection programs, including 337,803 children and youth empowered to protect themselves and others from abuse and violence and 585,108 parents and caregivers mobilized to nurture children and advocate for policy changes that prevent harm to kids
Faith and development
• Empowered 17,260 churches worldwide to serve their local communities
• Trained and mobilized 148,702 faith leaders to support holistic child well-being
• Reached nearly 9.3 million people, including nearly 3.5 million children and youth, through discipleship, spiritual nurture, and faith-based programs
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback, We ask the people who gave us feedback how well they think we responded
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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World Vision, Inc.
Board of directorsas of 05/26/2023
Vonna Laue
Financial and Operational Consultant
Term: 2028 - 2023
Jim Bechtold
Forum
Leith Anderson
National Association of Evangelical's
Robert Abernathy
Halyard Health - retired
Larry Probus
Whitworth University
Edgar Sandoval
World Vision, Inc.
Noel Castellanos
Camino Alliance, President
Nicole Baker Fulgham
Charles & Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies
Michael Henderson
New Beginnings Church
Laura Whitley
Bank of America - Retired
Kristin Anderson
WVI
Liza Hing
Former Director KeyBanc Capital Markets
Anne Eiting Klamar
Midmark Corporation
Dennis Weibling
Rally Capital, LLC
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes