Charitable foundation · Established YYYY
Ariel Global Foundation receives donations and directs them to communities facing poverty and exclusion — funding relief, education and small enterprise that help women, youth and children build lives they can sustain themselves.
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Who we are
We are a stichting, established in Rotterdam and run by a volunteer board. We hold no offices abroad and employ no field staff. What we do is choose good local organisations, fund them properly, and stay close enough to know what happened next.
Our conviction is simple: dignity comes before charity. Families know what they need. Our role is to remove the financial obstacle standing between them and the life they are already working towards.
Registered particulars
We publish our legal identity and governing documents openly. Verification requests from banks, regulators, auditors and donors are welcomed and answered in full.
What we do
Relief alone rarely changes a family's trajectory. Our programmes are designed to run in sequence for the same household — immediate need first, then education, then the income that makes the change permanent.
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Country / region · delivered with named local partner
We fund partners providing immediate assistance to households in crisis — food, shelter, medical care and legal support — including families displaced by conflict, and people recovering from exploitation and forced labour.
We do not run frontline operations ourselves. All delivery is carried out by vetted local organisations with their own registration, safeguarding policies and reporting obligations to us.
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Country / region · N students supported
School fees, materials, uniforms and vocational training for children and young people who would otherwise be out of education, with priority given to girls and to households with no other means of paying.
Funds are paid directly to the school or training provider against an invoice. We do not make cash payments to families.
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Country / region · via licensed lending partner
Small grants and micro-loans that let women start or expand a livelihood — the household income that turns a one-off intervention into lasting change.
Lending is administered through a licensed partner institution in the country of operation, under a written agreement setting out selection criteria, terms and reporting. The foundation does not lend directly.
How we work
We work in regions that carry genuine financial crime risk. We treat that as our responsibility to manage. Our controls are written down, applied consistently and available on request.
All donations are received by bank transfer or a regulated payment provider into an account in the foundation's own name. We do not accept cash, and we do not accept anonymous gifts. Donors are identified, and larger gifts are subject to source-of-funds enquiry.
Donors, partners, grantees and board members are screened against applicable sanctions and politically exposed person lists before funds are accepted or disbursed, and periodically thereafter.
Every implementing partner is assessed before funding: legal registration, ownership and control, governance, safeguarding policy, banking, and prior audit history. Assessments are recorded and reviewed annually.
Funds go bank-to-bank against a signed grant agreement and an approved budget. Payments require two authorised signatories. Onward spending is reported to us with supporting documentation before further tranches are released.
We retain donor, grant and transaction records for the period required under Dutch law and make them available to our accountant, our bank and any competent authority on request.
Board members declare interests on appointment and annually. Any member with an interest in a proposed grant or contract withdraws from the decision, and the withdrawal is minuted.
Governance
The foundation is directed by its board. Board members serve without remuneration and are reimbursed only for documented expenses incurred on foundation business.
Chair
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Treasurer
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Secretary
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Every gift we receive is someone else's first step. We treat it that way.
Street and number
0000 XX Rotterdam
The Netherlands
General enquiries: info@domain.org
Banks, auditors, regulators and institutional donors requesting documentation should write to compliance@domain.org. We respond with our full document pack, including governing documents, board identification and audited accounts.
