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Founded | 1952 |
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Founder | Everett Swanson |
Type | Christian child sponsorship non-profit organization |
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Area served | 27 countries across four continents |
Key people | Santiago "Jimmy" Mellado (president and CEO) |
Revenue | US$ 1,001,200,000 (2020)[2] |
Expenses | Program Services: US$ 813,929,000 (2020)[2] Support Activities: US$ 999,180,000 (2020)[2] |
Website | www |
Compassion International is an American child sponsorship and Christian humanitarian aid organization headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado, that aims to positively influence the long-term development of children globally who live in poverty.
A 2013 independent research report, in the Journal of Political Economy, concluding that as of that time, Compassion International had large and statistically significant impacts on participants' years of school completion, the probability of later employment, and the quality of that employment, in part as a consequence of improved self-esteem and expectations in participating children.