World Vision International - wikipedia World Vision International For the unrelated television production company of the same name, see Worldvision Enterprises. The neutrality of this article is disputed. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. Please do not remove this message until conditions to do so are met. ( January 2015 ) World Vision International Founded 1950 ; 68 years ago ( 1950 ) ( as World Vision Inc. ) Founder Rev. Bob Pierce Type 501 ( c ) ( 3 ) religious non-profit corporation under the laws of the State of California, U.S. Focus Well being of all people, especially children. Location Monrovia, California, U.S., 800 West Chestnut Avenue ( administrative center, World Vision International Board ), London, U.K. ( Executive Office and International Headquarter ) Area served 97 countries Method Transformational Development through emergency relief, community development and policy and advocacy Key people Kevin Jenkins ( International President ) Ms. Donna Shepherd ( Chairperson Int'l Board ) Revenue US $1.01 billion ( 2016 ) Employees 22,500 ( 2018 ) Website www.wvi.org World Vision International is an Evangelical Christian humanitarian aid, development, and advocacy organization. It prefers to present itself as interdenominational and also employs staff from non-evangelical Christian denominations. It was founded in 1950 by Robert Pierce as a service organization to meet the emergency needs of missionaries. In 1975 development work was added to World Vision 's objectives. It is active in more than 90 countries with a total revenue including grants, product and foreign donations of $1.01 billion ( 2016 ). Contents 1 History 2 Organizational structure 3 Religion 4 Activities and philosophy 5 Child sponsorship 5.1 Accusations of misrepresentation 5.2 Local corruption 5.3 Relationship with U.S. government 5.4 Same - sex marriage ban 5.5 Evangelism 5.6 Israel - Palestine 6 Notable affiliated persons 7 References 8 External links History Key dates of World Vision 1950 Reverend Robert Pierce forms World Vision. 1953 Pierce begins the World Vision sponsorship program with photographs of needy children. 1967 Pierce resigns from World Vision. 1970s World Vision 's international structure is established. 1979 World Vision operates offices in 40 countries. World Vision operates offices in 55 countries. Dean Hirsch is appointed president. 1999 Richard Stearns is appointed US group president. After tripling during the previous eight years, World Vision 's budget reaches $1.5 billion. 2007 World Vision ends its 57th year with 26,000 employees and a budget of $2.6 billion. Kevin Jenkins is appointed president. The charity was founded in 1950 as World Vision Inc. by Robert Pierce and co-founder Frank Phillips with a first office in Portland, Oregon. Originally, the charity operated as a missionary service organization meeting emergency needs in crisis areas in East Asia, where in 1954 it opened an office in South Korea. In order to restructure the organization World Vision International was founded in 1977 by Walter Stanley Mooneyham the then president of World Vision. In 1967, the Mission Advanced Research and Communication Center ( MARC ) was founded by Ed Dayton as a division of World Vision International. It became the organizational backbone of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization, collected and published data about `` unreached people '' and also published the `` Mission Handbook : North American Protestant Ministries Overseas ''. During the 1970s, World Vision began training families to build small farms by teaching agricultural skills aiming to make lasting effects in the communities they were helping by promoting self - reliance The organization also began installing water pumps for clean water in communities which caused infant mortality rates to drop. Volunteers now use the fresh water to teach communities gardening and irrigation and promote good health. During the 1990s, World Vision International began focusing on the needs of children who had been orphaned in Uganda, Romania, and Somalia in response to AIDS, neglect, and civil war, respectively. They began educating other African communities on AIDS after realizing its impact. They also joined the United Nations peacekeeping efforts to help those affected by civil war. World Vision also started to openly promote the international ban on land mines. In 1994 World Vision US moved to Washington State. According to Forbes magazine, as of December 2014, World Vision is the 11th largest charity in the United States with total revenue of over 981 million dollars. Organizational structure World Vision Partnership now operates as a federation of interdependent national offices governed by the same agreement but with three different levels of central control. National Offices - under strong central control by World Vision International, registered in the host country as a branch of the main organization. Intermediate Stage National Offices with a separate board of directors Interdependently National Registered Offices - autonomous in internal decision but are expected to coordinate with World Vision International and are bound to the Covenant of Partnership. The Covenant of Partnership is a document that all national members of the World Vision Partnership have to sign. According to this document all national offices have to accept policies and decisions established by the International Board and must not establish an office or program outside their own national borders without the consent of World Vision International and the host country. Except for direct project founding, all funds intended for outside their national borders have to be remitted through World Vision International. The financial planning and budget principles adopted by the International Board have to be accepted as well as an examination of the financial affairs of the national offices by Partnership representatives. The president of World Vision International has a seat on all national offices with their own national board. The partnership offices -- located in Geneva, Bangkok, Nairobi, Cyprus, Los Angeles, and San José, Costa Rica -- coordinate operations of the organization and represent World Vision in the international arena. For making large scale decisions, the international organization considers opinions from each national office, whether in the developed or developing world. An international board of directors oversees the World Vision partnership. The full board meets twice a year to appoint senior officers, approve strategic plans and budgets, and determine international policy. The current chairperson of the international board is Donna Shepherd. The international president is Kevin J. Jenkins. Religion World Vision staff come from a range of Christian denominations. Its staff includes members from Protestantism, Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. Around the world staff include people from different religions or none. Staff participates in daily and weekly services. They stress that one can be a Christian in any culture. However, World Vision also respects other religions that they encounter, stating that `` to promote a secular approach to life would be an insult to them ''. Richard Stearns, president of World Vision US, stated that World Vision has a strict policy against proselytizing, which he describes as ``... using any kind of coercion or inducement to listen to a religious message before helping someone ''. The World Vision Partnership and all its national members are committed to the concept of transformational development, which is cast in a biblical framework and in which evangelization is an integral part of development work. Activities and philosophy WV distributes removable toilets to schools during emergency response Activities include : emergency relief, education, health care, economic development, and promotion of justice. The organization has consultative status with UNESCO and partnerships with UN agencies like UNICEF, WHO, UNHCR and ILO, and financial records reveal that it has funded evangelical activities all over the world. Its approach to aid is to first help people and their communities recognize the resources that lie within them. With support from World Vision, it claims communities transform themselves by carrying out their own development projects in health care, agriculture production, water projects, education, micro-enterprise development, advocacy and other community programs. It also addresses factors that perpetuate poverty by what it describes as promoting justice. It supports community awareness of the collective ability to address unjust practices and begin working for change. It claims to speak out on issues such as child labor, debt relief for poor nations, and the use of children as combatants in armed conflict. World Vision International has endorsed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. It claims to foster opportunities to help reduce conflict levels and to contribute to the peaceful resolution of hostilities and reconciliation of disputes. WV relief effort in disaster affected areas World Vision encourages public awareness about the needs of others, the causes of poverty, and the nature of compassionate response. These efforts include collaboration with media and community participation in fundraising. In areas of the world that are considered too dangerous for news organizations to send their crews, World Vision 's own videographers supply newscasters with footage of events from these areas. In its communications, the organization claims to uphold the dignity of children and families in presenting explanations of the causes and consequences of poverty, war, neglect, and abuse. The organization was one of the founding members of global IT nonprofit NetHope. With more than 50 years of experience in India, World Vision India works in 24 states across the country through development that is community based, sustainable and transformational emergency response and disaster mitigation, advocacy initiatives that are grassroots based. World Vision India is a national NGO in partnership with a network of over 100 other entities within World Vision International. World Vision India is registered as a society under the Tamil Nadu Societies Act with its National Office based in Chennai. Governed by an autonomous Board of Directors, World Vision 's programmes are facilitated by close to 1700 staff. In 2015 World Vision took part in operations to bring earthquake relief to Nepal. Child sponsorship World Vision runs a child sponsorship program which aims to help needy children, families and communities access clean drinking water, sanitation, education, skills for future livelihood, nutrition, health care and participate in an age - appropriate in development processes. World Vision operates on the theory that by changing the lives of children, the child sponsorship program facilitates overall growth and development in the community, as it helps communities to build a better future through empowerment, education, income generation, and self - sufficiency. Accusations of misrepresentation World Vision uses the Sponsor a Child method of fundraising. In a 2008 report on famine in Ethiopia, reporter Andrew Geoghegan, from Australian TV programme Foreign Correspondent, visited his 14 - year - old sponsor child. The girl has `` been part of a World Vision program all her life '' yet says ( in translated subtitle ) `` Until recently, I did n't know I had a sponsor. '' and when asked about her knowledge of World Vision sponsorship says `` Last time they gave me this jacket and a pen. '' Geoghegan was disconcerted to find that despite being `` told by World Vision that ( the girl ) was learning English at school, and was improving... she speaks no English at all ''. In response World Vision states that they take a `` community approach '' in which the money is not directly provided to the family of the sponsored child. The organization argued that the `` direct benefit '' approach would result in jealousy among other community members without children and would not work. Foreign Correspondent replied to World Vision concerning child sponsorship showing contradictions between the organization 's literature that creates the impression that donated money goes directly to the sponsor child and evidence of cases where supposedly sponsored children received little if any benefit. Local corruption `` In February 2007... World Vision received an anonymous tip that lower level World Vision Liberia employees in key positions... were diverting food deliveries and building supplies for personal gain. World Vision immediately launched an investigation into the allegations, sending auditors to ( their ) field sites. Through this extensive internal audit, World Vision uncovered the nature and extent of the alleged violations and furnished detailed documentation that assisted the U.S. Government 's subsequent investigation. '' On October 25, 2013 World Vision Malawi cancelled a visit and fact - finding trip by a dozen United States Christians from San Antonio, Texas. A fear of danger and instability resulted from the dismissal of World Vision Malawi staff due to corruption. At the same time, the Malawi government fired the president 's cabinet because of corruption. Relationship with U.S. government Ian Buchanan, author of `` Armies Of God : A Study In Militant Christianity '', has claimed that World Vision is effectively an arm of the United States Department of State. Same - sex Marriage ban On March 24, 2014, the United States branch of World Vision announced that it would no longer ban employees from being in same - sex marriages. Facing protests from donors and the larger evangelical community after the announcement, World Vision reversed the policy change two days later. Evangelism The political weekly Tehelka has cited World Vision India 's involvement with AD2000 as proof of evangelism. Radhakant Nayak, a leader of World Vision 's local chapter in Orissa, was also accused by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh of being involved in the murder of Swami Lakshmanananda. World Vision India condemned the murder and denied any involvement, pointing out its anti-proselytizing policy. Valerie Tarico, a commentator on religious and social topics, points out that World Vision defines proselytism as `` Proselytism takes place whenever assistance is offered on condition that people must listen or respond to a message or as an inducement to leave one and join another part of the Christian church. '' which does not in general exclude evangelism. Furthermore, she mentions the phrase `` serving as a witness to the gospel of Jesus Christ '' as part of World Vision 's description of its mission and identifies the word `` witness '' as an evangelical code word for seeking converts. Israel - Palestine In 1982, after World Vision publicly criticized Israel actions in Palestinian refugee camps near Sidon and Tyre, it came under attack from conservative evangelicals and the government of Israel. In spite of this pressure, WV president Mooneyham presented to the eight hundred thousand readers of World Vision Magazine a report `` showing 255 bodies and ankle - deep body fluids left in a school basement by an Israeli bomb. '' In this September issues of World Vision Magazine President Stanley Mooneyham was quoted describing Israeli actions with the behavior of Hitler 's army, `` reminiscent of Warsaw. '' In the same month Mooneyham was forced to resign when, according to former World Vision employee Ken Waters, his leadership style was criticized ; he was replaced as President by Ted Engstrom. In February 2012, based on information provided by the Shurat HaDin - Israel Law Center, World Vision Australia allegedly provided `` financial aid to a Gaza - based terrorist group '', the Union of Agricultural Work Committees ( UAWC ), which they also alleged is a `` front for terror group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ''. WV had `` suspended its dealings '' with UAWC until the outcome of the investigation. WV resumed working with UAWC after AusAID and World Vision found the allegations were unfounded. The Israel Law Center considers World Vision 's response to be a whitewash and maintains that the allegations have not been refuted. On 15 June 2016, Mohammad El Halabi, manager of World Vision in Gaza, was arrested at the Erez border crossing and charged by Israeli prosecutors with channeling its funds directly to Hamas, a listed terror organization. A senior official with Shin Bet, Israel 's internal security agency, stated that Halabi was recruited by the military wing of Hamas in 2004 and instructed to penetrate World Vision. According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Halabi transferred cash to Hamas to help it in digging military tunnels and purchasing weapons. Muhammad Mahmoud, Halabi 's lawyer, told Haaretz that his client has nothing to do with Hamas and that the fact that the investigation had lasted 55 days proves that there is a problem with evidence. Israel 's Shin Bet intelligence agency claims that about $48 million of World Vision resources were funneled to Hamas in just six years and another $80,000 was used for building a Hamas position in Beit Hanon and for paying salaries of Hamas members who fought against Israel in the 2014 war. World Vision confirmed that its funds are spent in accordance with legal requirements that contribute to peace and that the charity works closely with the UN and Red Cross. The charity initially defended Halabi as a `` humanitarian ''. In August 2016, Israeli officials claimed that the World Vision organization was providing the military wing of Hamas with tens of millions of dollars in Gaza. World Vision has denounced these allegations which come amid Israeli campaigns against the non-governmental organizations that worked with Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade immediately suspended all funding of Palestinian programs by World Vision. World Vision Australia chief executive, Tim Costello, accepted this move as being the correct thing to do pending a proper investigation of the allegations. An review of the Australian government came to the conclusion that no Australian taxpayer money was diverted to Hamas. Notable affiliated persons Hugh Jackman Kris Allen Alex Trebek Paul Brandt Richard Stearns Meghan, Duchess of Sussex References ^ Jump up to : Balmer, Randall ( 2002 ). `` World Vision International ''. The Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism. Berkeley : Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN 0 - 664 - 22409 - 1. 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Question: when was world vision founded and by whom
Answer: in 1950