They provide professional expertise, share best practices as well as help evaluate and expand projects to meet pressing needs that face children in disadvantaged communities. Champions gifts provide direct operational support to enable eight field offices and nine area offices, to serve disadvantaged children worldwide. Programs benefiting the most have field offices that are expanding interventions or launching initiatives that rely on unrestricted private support until other sources of revenue are indentified. Champions gifts also support countries whose grant awards either do not fully cover our operational costs or require matching contributions to complete funding. Start-Up Sponsorship Programs.
Champions is independent of and different from our flagship sponsorship program.
But, as unrestricted gifts, Champions contributions aid sponsorship's expansion into new impact areas until those programs become self-supporting. Your Champions gifts recently helped give this opportunity to poor children in Bolivia and Malawi. Financial accountability is imperative to our program operations as well as to the children and supporters we serve. Save the Children also takes seriously its compliance with the complex tax, accounting and auditing regulations that govern nonprofit organizations. Champions support underpins our entire fiscal process, from assuring we have the expert staff for purchasing and maintaining integrated communication systems to supporting field offices.