National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
Richard Fields Philanthropy
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) is a non-profit organization with a worldwide network mobilized to educate and help prevent the abduction and sexual exploitation of children. The NCMEC works closely with law enforcement, social service professionals, and families to find missing and exploited children and provide assistance for impacted families and trauma victims. The NCMEC is supported by a cooperative network of corporations, individuals and groups.
As an organization, the NCMEC fulfils its service to families by operating as a clearinghouse of information about missing and exploited children, staffing a CyberTipline for the public to report child exploitation through Internet-related channels, providing technical assistance to individuals and law enforcement in the prevention, recovery, investigation, prosecution, and treatment of missing or exploited children, assisting the US Department of State in cases of international child abduction, providing educational training programs to law enforcement and social services, coordinating child-protection services with private sectors, exchanging information with other nonprofit services, and providing information regarding state legislation for the protection of children.
Richard Fields and the Fields Family Foundation has been a supporter and contributor to the NCMEC for a number of years. The NCMEC noted Richard Fields as a contributor in their 2006 news letter. Richard Fields is currently a secretary on the NCMEC Board of Directors.