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 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, KIF started a disaster relief program and its first national chapter organization KIF Japan in Tokyo to help victims affected by the natural 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.[8]

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 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 and displacement, right from the onset of crisis through recovery phases through 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.

As part of extreme poverty reduction cause, KIF begun providing relief beverages and clothing to homeless people in Downtown Los Angeles through its partner organization. In the following year, KIF created a new homeless relief project named 1000 Ways To Give and continued its efforts annually with a group of new volunteers.

On 25 September 2015, the 193 countries of the UN General Assembly adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with 169 targets for the 17 goals.[9] KIF has been involved in promoting and advancing SDGs through its causes with its global partners and national chapter members.

At the United Nations Headquarters in New York, KIF President Nia Lyte, who is originally from Colombia, was invited by Ambassador María Emma Mejía Vélez, the Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations to participate and speak with U.N. Women leaderships about SDGs' Goal 5: gender equality before global women leaders in 2016.

There are 11 global committees consisting of individual members who are national committee chairs of national chapter member organizations. The global committees are divided in three types; one is executive committee, second is for regions and third is for specific tasks.

The committees for regions have five different regional committees such as Asia Pacific Committee, North America Committee, South America Committee, Europe Committee and Africa & Middle East Committee. Members of each regional committee are active national chairs of national chapter member organizations representing their regions. Each regional committee is inclusively organized to mainly oversee its region, increase the regional visibility and quality of each national chapter member, help establish a new national chapter member in a new country, and share resources and networks.

The committees of specific tasks are set up in five different committees on global programs, memberships, governance, finance and public relations. All members of the committees are committee chairs of a specific national committee of a national chapter member.

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.

• United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) - Gender-based violence, women's empowerment, gender equality
• UNICEF's Education Cannot Wait (ECW) - Education in emergencies

• Sister Cities International (SCI) - Citizen diplomacy and bilateral summits
• Junior Chamber International (JCI) - Youth leadership
• Association of Medical Doctors of Asia (AMDA) - Disaster relief
• Union of Russian Cities (URC) - educational and cross-cultural activities
• Green Hope Colombia Foundation (GHCF) - Amazon reforestation