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When a sponsor mails a contribution, it is directly deposited into the bank. State and federal bank examinations ensure safety and security. |
Sponsorship funds are transferred to each agency field office in accordance with an approved budget. |
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Sponsored children receive benefits and services. Our agency staff follows strict program guidelines to provide care that best meets the children's needs. |
Independent, local CPA firms in each country perform semiannual audits. |
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| Twice each year our internal auditors visit the field offices to perform financial audits. In addition, staff members from our headquarters conduct financial and program reviews. All of these individuals visit a number of children to ensure that they are receiving benefits as promised to our sponsors. |
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* Children International ensures the accountability of each international agency office through extensive financial reporting and reviews, including semiannual internal audits by Children International CPAs.
* We also hire independent CPA firms in each country to conduct semiannual external audits of all agency offices.
* Members of our Program Services Department in Kansas City travel to our agencies regularly to conduct on-site reviews of current operations and the use of contributions. They spend time interviewing sponsored children and their families and visiting schools, medical centers and other facilities to ensure that sponsored children are receiving needed benefits and services.
View our most recent Form 990 at GuideStar. GuideStar generates and distributes extensive programmatic and financial information about more than 850,000 American charitable nonprofit organizations. It operates www.guidestar.org, a free, public Internet service and the nation's leading source of information about nonprofit organizations.
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