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699 Prince Street
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Alexandria,
VA
22314
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Our Story
In 1981, 6-year-old Adam Walsh was abducted in Florida.
His desperate parents, John and Revé Walsh,
came to Washington, DC seeking help.
Seeing different sites on their drive from the airport,
Revé asked, "Where is the Children's Building?"
The driver responded with a blank stare. There was no
children's building, no help for searching parents,
and no national response to the problem. This is the
beginning...The Walshes turned their anger into action.
In 1984, John Walsh co-founded the private,
nonprofit National Center for Missing & Exploited
Children (NCMEC).NCMEC serves as a focal point in
providing assistance to parents, children,
law enforcement, schools, and the community in
recovering missing children and raising public
awareness about ways to help prevent child abduction,
molestation, and sexual exploitation. NCMEC has worked
on more than 73,000 cases of missing and exploited
children, helped recover more than 48,000 children,
and raised its recovery rate from 60 percent in the
1980s to 91 percent today, thereby gaining national and
As the nation's resource center for child protection,
NCMEC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
NCMEC spends 91 percent of its revenue directly on
programs and services. NCMEC is proud of its A+,
excellent, rating in the Winter 1997/98
American Institute of Philanthropy Charity
Rating Guide which recommends charities based
on percent of money spent on charitable purposes
versus administrative expenses.
In 1989 NCMEC had a staff of 40.Today NCMEC has
developed into a 125-person organization. Most work
provided by NCMEC is conducted, developed, analyzed,
and completed on-site at its headquarters utilizing
state-of-the-art technology, highly trained professionals,
and committed staff, interns, and volunteers.
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