Pearl S. Buck International (PSBI) has three distinct functions that operate with one common mission of promoting the legacy and dreams of Pearl S. Buck – her commitment to improving the quality of life and expanding opportunitites for children, promoting and understanding the values and attributes of other cultures, the injustice of prejudice, and the need for humanitarianism throughout the world.

PSBI was founded by Nobel and Pulitzer prize winning author Pearl S. Buck, the first woman to be awarded both prizes. Upon her return to the United States after forty years in China, Ms. Buck became an activist. Through her activism, she received a certificate of life membership from the NAACP as well as becoming an active trustee of Howard University. She was instrumental in the fight to gain citizenship for Chinese Americans and was a supporter of the first human rights initiative affecting the status of biracial children in many countries. She dedicated her energy and resources to promoting tolerance, human rights and inter-cultural understanding and fighting the impact which discrimination, prejudice and bigotry can have, particularly on the lives of children.

Today, more than fifty years later, the several organizations Ms. Buck founded have merged as PSBI and her effort to improve the lives of socially, politically and economically ostracized children continues. Through efforts to strengthen communities and families as well as the development of local programming partnerships, PSBI now serves more than 100,000 children, their families and their caregivers annually.

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