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Brandon Stiver has worn several hats, but has one vocation: to see God’s Kingdom come to Earth through proclamation and demonstration. A respected leader in the field of global care for children, Brandon is a professor, a podcaster and has led in nonprofits based in the US and in Tanzania. A community builder at heart, he has collaborated with organizations from Central America to Southeast Asia.
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Brandon has been working at the cross-section of non-profit work and children’s justice issues for fifteen years.
Brandon spent several years working in the child welfare sector in Moshi, Tanzania. After working at a children’s home for a few years, he recognized that very little was being done to help children find permanent care in family and making matters worse, most of the children actually had families in the community that could provide such care. After taking a hiatus in the states, Brandon and his family returned to Moshi and setup a non-profit program that mobilized the local community to care for children resulting in families strengthened, children entering parental care and indigenous leaders empowered to continue leading the movement.
After his years in Tanzania, Brandon returned to his native California and worked at the community level to recruit and equip foster parents before taking a senior role to oversee global programs and partnerships for an international NGO focused on a child’s right to live within a family. Operating as a social venture, he collaborated with partners to establish regional teams that converted orphanages to family care operators and safely reintegrated hundreds of kids back to family. The portfolio included Uganda, Sierra Leone, Haiti, Lesotho and Zambia. Currently, Brandon oversees the Puget Sound operation of CarePortal, an innovative care-sharing technology that drives impact for local children and families in crisis.
In 2024, Brandon launched Canopy International as a place for nonprofit professionals and globally minded Christians to find community, engage in conversation and get support for the work God has called them into.
Brandon has his Master’s in Global Development and Justice and focused much of his graduate research on issues facing children in sub-Saharan Africa. In addition to his work with CarePortal and Canopy International, he also teaches at two different universities on global development and issues facing at risk children globally.
Brandon lives in Tacoma, Washington with his wife Melissa and their four children. He speaks Swahili, has a chemical dependency on coffee and bleeds Dodger blue.
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