Our Mission
We serve American children as their national arts organization, seeding their imagination, cultivating creativity, and fostering mutual empathy among them (for “a more perfect union”) and with their peers worldwide (for a peaceful future).
Founded in 1997, the International Child Art Foundation (ICAF) organizes the Arts Olympiad, a school art program that has grown over the years into the world’s largest; it also produces the World Children’s Festival at the National Mall, located across from the U.S. Capitol. ICAF's ad-free ChildArt quarterly magazine enhances cross-cultural understanding and global competencies.
ICAF has organized Healing Art Programs to revive faith in nature of child victims of natural disasters, and Peace through Art Programs to restore trust in humanity of children in conflict zones.
How Your Donations Help
- $100 brings the 7th Arts Olympiad to one Title 1 school 230 students benefit by the school art program that fosters their creativity. in the United States
- $1,000 brings the 7th Arts Olympiad to an African, LAC or Asian country 3,000 students benefit by the school art program that fosters their creativity.
- $10,000 brings the 7th Arts Olympiad to an entire school district 6,000 students benefit by the school art program that fosters their creativity. in the United States
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Our Impact
almost 4 years ago — Washington, D.C.
Peruse our ChildArt magazine on the 6th World Children's Festival > https://icaf.org/childart/2021WCF/
about 4 years ago — The National Mall across the U.S. Capitol
The 6th World Children's Festival remediated COVID anxieties by bringing 5,000 children, parents and teachers together for three days at the National Mall to celebrate creativity, diversity, and unity.
over 4 years ago — National PTA, Washington D.C. - OUR CHILDREN magazine.
"How to Prepare our Children for the Fourth Industrial Revolution" > https://ptaourchildren.org/how-to-prepare-children-for-the-fourth-industrial-revolution/
over 4 years ago — ChildArt magazine April-June 2021 "The Moral of Your Story"
Peruse the magazine https://icaf.org/TheMoralOfYourStory
over 6 years ago — STEAMS Journal, Claremount University
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1206&context=steam
Causes We Support
Countries We Serve
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
By cultivating children's creativity and growing mutual empathy, we advance five key Social Development Goals (SDGs)—good health, quality education, gender equality, inequities reduction, and peace building.
