Koyamada International Foundation

To cultivate global mindset and youth leadership, KIF's national chapter member organizations have partnered up with many high schools and universities, embassies and consulates, and local governments and its board of education to organize a series of global speaker's programs for their youth students in Japan, Colombia, Kenya, United States and other countries where KIF's national chapters are based.

KIF's President Nia Lyte participated as a closing keynote speaker addressing the importance of youth and women's empowerment and leadership at Junior Chamber International (JCI)'s global partnership summit at the United Nations Headquarters in New York in 2018. In addition, KIF has participated numerous JCI's regional events with its global members to collaborate on youth leadership events in the United States and Asia Pacific region. In the following collaborations for a year, KIF and JCI signed a global partnership in February 2019 to continue the important efforts on fostering youth leaderships in different regions.

KIF empowers all girls and women to be, do and achieve whatever they strongly believe they want to be, do and achieve in their lives. KIF national chapters have organized series of speaker's programs targeting over 300 women leaders per event to exchange dialogue on women's leaderships.

In December 2019, KIF has partnered with United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) on a new women's empowerment and gender-based violence initiative as part of the pledges KIF has made during the 25th International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD25) held in Nairobi, Kenya, in November 2019.

In emergency response to earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster in Japan, KIF started the disaster relief program and its first national chapter organization KIF Japan in Tokyo to help victims affected by the triple disaster, by providing them the relief funds of over $120,000 raised through fundraisers as well as shipping 20-foot container filled with relief goods and items, which KIF's volunteers collected in Southern California.[7]

In 2019, KIF has partnered with Association of Medical Doctors of Asia (AMDA) to assist AMDA in providing emergency medical aid to people affected by natural calamity, as well as man-made disasters in Asia and other regions. AMDA is an international NGOs with General Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic & Social Council and with an international network of 30 chapters and 47 collaborating organizations around the world.

In May 2020, KIF has partnered with UNICEF's Education Cannot Wait (ECW) to support ECW's comprehensive education programmes for children and youth affected by conflicts, natural disasters, famine, displacement, and outbreaks (including COVID-19 pandemic), right from the onset of crisis through recovery phases through the KIF's national chapters in Latin America and Africa.

To promote mutual understanding and respect, KIF's national chapters have mobilized the series of grassroots cross-cultural networking events in partnerships with a number of different government agencies, embassies and consulates, and local nonprofit organizations in different countries.

In 2013 and 2014, Hollywood celebrities Dylan Sprouse and Cole Sprouse from Disney Channel's Suite Life traveled to Japan for the first time ever for a KIF's new program United States-Japan Discovery Tour to exchange dialogue with thousands of Japanese youth on the importance of pursuing a higher education and interact with them on cross-cultural activities for two weeks. During the tour, the activities were shared to millions of followers and supporters on social media.

To strengthen citizen diplomacy and people-to-people activities, KIF and Sister Cities International (SCI) have partnered up to develop new bilateral summits in the United States and other countries in January 2019. In March 2019, KIF and SCI have organized the Japan-Texas Leadership Symposium, hosted by City of San Antonio and supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan to strengthen friendships between people of the United States and Japan and advance cultural and economic exchanges between two nations.

Habitat is one of the core issue areas. Amazon Habitat is a wildlife and rainforest conservation initiative to save the world's largest tropical forest and its biodiversity, as well as support indigenous people who live in the jungle in South America. Safari Habitat initiative is to protect and promote the world's most famous fauna and indigenous community in Africa.

The Foundation is committed to preserving nature, species and humankind on Earth, yet recognizes the importance of engaging in the exploration, tourism, and research of outer space.

Each national chapter member is an independent nonprofit organization exclusively licensed to operate in a specific country, governed by its own national boards and officers with national committees, and funded by its supporters and contributors of a designated country. All members of national chapters are local chapter member organizations and individual and corporate members.

KIF National Chapter Members

KIF Chapter	Year:	country:	region:	Website
KIF USA	2013	United States	North America	kifusa.org
KIF Japan	2011	Japan	Asia	kifjapan.org
KIF Colombia	2017	Colombia	South America	kifcolombia.org
KIF Brazil	2019	Brazil	South America	kifbrazil.org
KIF Kenya	2019	Kenya	Africa	kifkenya.org
KIF Tanzania	2021	Tanzania	Africa	kiftanzania.org
KIF Ghana	2020	Ghana	Africa	kifghana.org
KIF Togo	2019	Togo	Africa	kiftogo.org

• World Karate Federation (WKF) - a partnership on Gender-based violence
• Junior Chamber International (JCI) - a partnership on Youth leadership
• Association of Medical Doctors of Asia (AMDA) - a partnership on Disaster relief