FAQs
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
A message from the Heart Of Gold Foundation Team
Greetings. We fully understand the trust you place in Heart Of Gold Foundation as an ethical, impactful nonprofit, nonpolitical, and nonreligious agency in our mission of helping children from poor families access and succeed in education for a better future. We are fully compliant with laws in our humanitarian support to sanctioned countries, including Iran, using general licenses and a specific license from the U.S. Government. You will find information about how we help children with the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) below. Please do not hesitate to contact us directly at info@heartofgoldfoundation.org if you want to learn more about us and how to further help children achieve safe, healthy, and fulfilling lives.
Thank you, and Best Wishes,
The Heart Of Gold Foundation Team.
General FAQs About Heart Of Gold Foundation
Our mission and purpose as a public charity is to support underprivileged children succeed in education and achieve safe, healthy, and fulfilling lives. Heart Of Gold Foundation supports children and their respective households to overcome the burdens of poverty and other challenges.
Heart Of Gold Foundation is supervised by a Board of Directors, who are all serving as volunteers.
The Heart Of Gold Foundation has a comprehensive process, but in summary, the individual first submits their resume to the Development Committee. After an initial evaluation, an interview is conducted, and once approved, they participate as an observer or a non-voting member in all Board of Directors meetings for a period of one year. Post one year period, the Board of Directors may approve the individual to join as Director of the board. Within its board, the Heart Of Gold Foundation has financial, legal, development, and executive committees, in which members participate based on their experience and knowledge. All board members are volunteers.
The Board is responsible for ensuring CF is effectively pursuing its mission and fulfilling its organizational goals. The Board is also responsible for ensuring all the organization’s activities comply with applicable laws and regulations. They are responsible for approving the Foundation’s major decisions, developing goals and strategic plans, budgeting, and overseeing financial and legal compliance.
Yes, Heart Of Gold Foundation always strives to increase the revenue while optimizing operation efficiency to reduce expenses. One example is an implementation of a powerful CRM system. This system allows sponsors to have access to child profiles, progress reports on students, etc. This can contribute to reducing overhead costs for Heart Of Gold Foundation as well.
Although Heart Of Gold Foundation’s main goal is to help children stay in school, we provide humanitarian aid to help children and their families when there is an urgent need. Heart Of Gold Foundation has been very active when deadly earthquakes hit Iran, Afghanistan, Haiti, Japan, Pakistan, and Turkey and collected in-kind and cash donations to help rebuild the countries. We also respond with aid during the COVID crisis. Our Afghanistan office regularly organizes blood drives to help children with thalassemia and provides free blood transfusions.
There are many ways that you can help Heart Of Gold Foundation assist children in need.
Sponsor a child : Choose one or more children to help.
Donate : You can visit our donation page and choose any of our humanitarian projects in which you are interested and help launch or continue that program through your generosity.
Volunteer : Please complete our volunteer application, and we will contact you to see how we can work together to help children in need.
Spread the Word : Talk to your friends and family about Heart Of Gold Foundation’s humanitarian activities and share your own experience with them. If you need copies of our brochures, annual report, lists of our children waiting to be sponsored, or anything else, please contact us and we will send them to you.
Yes. In addition, sponsors receive progress reports during the year, which provide detailed information on the child’s education, progress, and living conditions. Direct letters from the child to the sponsor and reports from the social worker regarding the student’s situation and family are also provided. For Iran Program, each child may have up to two sponsors, one in Iran and one outside Iran. The co-sponsorship is described in the annual report and provided to all donors/sponsors.
Our Sponsorship Program across all countries provides ongoing economic stability and counseling for children in need, enabling them to remain in school. Sponsorship creates a unique relationship between an individual donor and a sponsored child. By pairing up a child with a sponsor, this child is able to obtain the necessary relief that they need. Generally, children sponsored through Heart Of Gold Foundation’s programs are often supported for their entire academic careers. For some children, this is until high school, for others, it may include college.
You are welcome to contact our office by email at info@heartofgoldfoundation.org. We would appreciate a personal conversation with you about any of these or other details.