Where Hope is Headed
“Every child deserves someone fighting for them. In the next five years, we intend to fight for more of them, and in more places.”
Since 2015, Knowing Hope has walked alongside more than 200 children facing the most serious illnesses: providing lifesaving medical care, keeping families together, and refusing to look away. What started with one child named Hope has grown into a movement, and we are just getting started.
Our vision for the next five years is clear: serve 450 children, expand into additional countries across Asia, and deepen the systems of care that make lasting change possible. These are not modest goals, but the children we serve don’t have the luxury of modest ambitions.
450 Children to serve by 2030 | 4 Countries active across Asia | 5 Years to get there |
Growth Already Underway
Expanding Our Reach, One Life at a Time
Our work began in China, and Knowing Hope has grown its international presence to a second country in Asia. In late 2025, we began building a new regional partnership, and by early 2026, that partnership was already delivering surfactant medication to a hospital serving newborns and premature infants whose families could not otherwise afford care.
This is what expansion looks like at Knowing Hope: not a press release, but a child breathing.
Every dollar we receive funds something specific: a blood transfusion, a surgery, a medication, a family kept whole. Currently serving approximately 105 infants and children, we are already 23% of the way to our five-year goal.
Supporting Knowing Hope means investing in outcomes you can see, measure, and stand behind.
The Roadmap
How we get to 450 — step by step
2026 | PHASE 1. Build the foundation Year 1. Consolidate and grow New country milestone: funding 60 surfactant doses per year for premature infants, with roughly 30 babies receiving care this year. Deepen programs, formalize operations, and build the donor base needed to sustain growth. ~105 children served | 2 countries active 23% to goal |
2027 | PHASE 1. Build the foundation Year 2. Grow programs and identify new partners Scale medical funding and family preservation across both countries. Identify a third country in Asia and begin building relationships with local organizations on the ground. ~180 children served | 3rd country scoped 40% to goal |
2028 | PHASE 2. Expand Year 3. Enter new territory Launch operations in a third country. Expand caregiver education to reach orphanages and families who have never had access to training or support. ~260 children served | 3rd country launched 58% to goal |
2029 | PHASE 3. Scale Year 4. Accelerate Deepen programs across all active countries and launch a fourth country. Grow local partnerships so Knowing Hope’s reach extends further than the team can go alone. ~350 children served | 4th country launched 78% to goal |
2030 | PHASE 3. Scale Year 5. Reach the goal 450 children served across four countries in Asia. A model of care that is replicable, locally rooted, and built to last, one life at a time. 450 children served | 4 countries active | Sustainable model 100% to goal |
Be part of the next chapter. Every gift directly funds the medical care, family support, and caregiver education that gives vulnerable children across Asia a fighting chance. Goals reflect Knowing Hope’s five-year ambition. Progress will be reported annually, and timelines may extend as we grow responsibly into new communities. |
Our Financial Strategy
| 🟢 STABILIZE | 🔵 DIVERSIFY | 🟣 EXPAND |
|---|---|---|
| FY 2026–2027 | FY 2027–2028 | FY 2028–2030 |
| Current Revenue: $138K | Target Revenue: $230K | Target Revenue: $415K+ |
| Target Revenue: $165K | New Funding Sources: 2–3 | Growth: 3× from current baseline |
| Key Priorities | Key Priorities | Key Priorities |
| Launch our inaugural fundraiser event and establish it as an annual tradition that inspires long-term donor support, rather than a one-time appeal | Apply to 5–8 foundations focused on child health, family preservation, in Asia | Build a major donor program with structured cultivation for $5K–$25K gifts |
| Deepen relationships with existing major donors | Publish an annual impact report to attract larger institutional funders | Explore international health-focused grants, including funders with Asia-focused priorities |
| Add 1–2 church partners by sharing our mission story | Expand church partnerships invested in this mission | Systematize grant renewals so existing grants compound over time |
| Encourage corporate-match donors to recruit colleagues and peers | Increase monthly giving participation to create predictable cash flow | Consideration of a capital campaign for expansion into a new countries within Asia |
Our Growth
“What started with one volunteer trip has become a decade of showing up; one child, one family, one life at a time.”
Knowing Hope did not begin as an organization. It began as a person who could not look away. Since Cindy Morrison’s first trip to China in 2005, what started as individual acts of care has grown into a structured, sustainable nonprofit serving vulnerable children across Asia with programs, partnerships, and a community of donors who believe no child should go without.
20+ Years working in Asia | 200+ Children served since 2015 | 4 Programs serving children today |
HOW WE GOT HERE
2002 | A first connection Cindy Morrison adopts her eldest daughter from China, beginning a lifelong connection to the country and its most vulnerable children. |
2005 | The first volunteer trip Cindy travels to rural China to serve orphans for the first time. Over the next decade she returns again and again, watching children thrive when given access to care, and seeing what happens when others go without it. |
2014 | Hope During a volunteer trip, Cindy meets a seven-month-old with biliary atresia in an orphanage. She adopts her, gets her to Boston Children’s Hospital for a liver transplant, and names her Hope. Her survival makes one thing undeniable: there is always hope for every child. |
2015 | Knowing Hope is founded Knowing Hope Inc. is formally established to make hope possible for as many children as possible: through medical funding, family preservation, caregiver education, and therapeutic consultation. |
2018 | Lu and Li Knowing Hope meets a one-year-old girl named Li, diagnosed with thalassemia, and her mother Lu, a farmer who could not afford treatment and was considering relinquishing her daughter. When told Knowing Hope would support them for the long term, Lu sobbed with relief. Li is now seven years old. They are still with us today. |
2026 | Expanding into a second country in Asia Knowing Hope begins funding lifesaving surfactant for premature infants, providing 60 doses this year, reaching roughly 30 babies who would otherwise go without care. The work grows. |
2030 | The goal: 450 children across 4 countries With your support, Knowing Hope will serve 450 children across four countries in Asia, building a model of care that is locally rooted, replicable, and built to last. |
A Story of Growth
Lu and Li
Family preservation — China, 2018 to today In 2018, Knowing Hope met a one-year-old girl named Li and her mother Lu, a farmer in rural China. Li had been diagnosed with thalassemia, a chronic blood disorder requiring regular transfusions and medications. The cost of treatment was devastating. With a son in high school and school fees to pay, Lu saw no way forward. She was considering relinquishing her daughter. When Knowing Hope told Lu they would support her family for the long term, she sobbed. Not just with relief, but with the recognition that someone had seen her in her darkest moment and refused to look away. “When we told her we would support her for the long term, she sobbed.” Li is now seven years old. Lu still farms. Their family is still together. And Knowing Hope is still there, because that is what long term commitment looks like. |
Stories like Lu and Li’s are only possible because of donors who believe in the long term. Your gift today funds the next family who needs someone to show up.
Knowing Hope Inc.
PO Box 72, Andover, MA 01810
Tax ID 47-3315850
info@knowinghope.org
Knowing Hope, One life at a time.