This is Your Chance to Double Your Support for a Child in Need!
Give Today and Double Your Impact!
We reached our initial $63,000 Goal and now a new donor has added an additional $50,000.
NEW Match Alert!
Moved by the extraordinary generosity of supporters like you, the Marla Foundation has stepped forward with a powerful $50,000 challenge grant to strengthen the critical work of our Human Trafficking Department.
Double Your Impact!
This grant is made in honor of Dave Pirner of Soul Asylum, whose groundbreaking Runaway Train music video helped awaken a nation—and continues to inspire action decades later. When Runaway Train first aired in 1993, it became an anthem for lost and vulnerable youth. Its music video went even further, featuring real images of missing and runaway children and bringing their stories into homes across the country.
The video raised national awareness, generated tips, and played a role in reuniting families with their children. For years, Soul Asylum and NCMEC have worked together to shine a light on the crisis of missing and exploited children — now, YOU can be part of that legacy!
Funds raised through this match will help sponsor a new analyst —a critical role that uses advanced technology, data analysis, and investigative tools to help locate children faster and improve response times.
From now through January, every gift will be matched dollar for dollar, up to $50,000. Your generosity today will go twice as far to protect children — and help bring missing children safely home.
You Can Change a Child's Story Right Now
Your gift can:
• Stop exploitation before it happens
• Support rapid response when a child goes missing
• Provide critical resources to families in crise
• Strengthen prevention programs that keep children safe
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization.
About Our Mission
At NCMEC, our teams work around the clock—responding to urgent reports, supporting families in crisis, and helping bring children home safely. We partner with families, private industry, law enforcement, and communities to find missing children, stop child sexual exploitation, and prevent child victimization. This work never stops. And neither can we.
We cannot do this critical work without your help!
Your Support Makes This Possible
91%
Recovery Rate
In 2024 NCMEC assisted law enforcement, families and child welfare professionals with 29,568 reports of missing children and the overall recovery of missing children reported to NCMEC was 91%.
3,088
Instances of Support
In 2024, NCMEC's Recovery Services Team provided 3,088 instances of support for children reported missing to NCMEC from child welfare who were likely victims of child sex trafficking.
1,571
Victims & Families
In 2024, NCMEC provided 1,571 victims and families with mental health services that include education about resources, crisis support, and referrals to mental health/therapy providers near them for longer-term support.
Every Child Deserves a
Safe Childhood.
We Can't Do It Without You
Every report we receive is a chance to find a child, stop abuse, and bring hope to families. But this work requires resources—and supporters like you.
Your gift today keeps our teams ready to respond 24/7, 365 days a year.