FTC Brazil was recently given office space in a building by a company which supports their work. FTC young people are very careful about spending money on administration Children have to go to school during the day. Free the Children has grown so big that it needs full time people in the office to answer telephones, and help with administration while children are in school. Free the Children is very particular about the adults who work for them. Such adults must understand that FTC is a children's organization run by children for children and not run by adults for children.
Adults work as secretaries, as administrators or as facilitators only.
They do not make policy decisions or speak on behalf of the organization. Free the Children receives donations from adult donors for projects and sometimes for administration. Craig Kielburger helps to finance the organization. All of the money which he has raised over the past four years from speeches, awards, including scholarship money and any personal royalties from his book, he has given to Free the Children. Free the Children is now applying for grants for projects.