Our Mission
The International Child Art Foundation (ICAF) was founded in April 1997 as the national arts organization for American children and the global arts organization for children worldwide. A 501(c)(3) nonprofit, ICAF's Federal Tax ID or EIN is 52-2032649.
Your support will help foster American children’s creativity and develop mutual empathy among them and their peers worldwide for a prosperous and peaceful future.
- We organize the Arts Olympiad, a school art program that has grown over the years into the world’s largest. - We produce the World Children’s Festival at the National Mall across from the U.S. Capitol. - We publish the ad-free ChildArt quarterly to enhance young readers' global competencies.
Our Healing Art Programs revive faith in nature of child victims of natural disasters. Our Peace through Art Programs restore trust in humanity of children living in conflict zones.
Over the past twenty-seven years, ICAF has changed the world for children. More than five million schoolchildren have benefited from ICAF’s free-of-charge programs. An estimated two million students, parents, and teachers have attended ICAF festivals, exhibitions, and conferences in over twenty major cities worldwide. The readership of ChildArt quarterly has grown to an estimated 220,000. Through ICAF, children gain a sense of self-worth and confidence in themselves as creators. They recognize that they are the future and their imagination can change the world for the better.
Funding The D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Pennington Family Foundation, the Milton and Sally Avery Art Foundation, the Skillman Foundation, the Warner John IV Foundation, and the Robert J. Bauer Family Foundation have supported ICAF this year. Current in-kind supporters include Penguin Random House, Winsor & Newtown, and Kuretake, Ltd. of Japan. Since none of the largest private foundations support ICAF, creative-empathic individuals provide the lion’s share of funding.
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 3 years ago — Washington, D.C.
To make children the centerpiece of government policies, corporate CSR, and United Nations SDGs and Human Security for All Campaign, ICAF brings children's perspectives to grow public awareness. Watch (3:15-min) > https://youtu.be/FYQBS6TI63A
over 3 years ago — Washington, D.C.
Peruse our ChildArt magazine on the 6th World Children's Festival > https://icaf.org/childart/2021WCF/
over 3 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.
almost 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/
about 4 years ago — ChildArt magazine April-June 2021 "The Moral of Your Story"
Peruse the magazine https://icaf.org/TheMoralOfYourStory
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.
