Monthly donations make all the difference.
Join our Circle of Support by July 31, and your first three monthly gifts will be DOUBLED by Bob and Mariann Hubbard, up to $10,000.
Your ongoing support, matched for three months, will change the lives of children waiting in foster care.
Become a Monthly Donor
Our Circle of Support monthly donors provide reliable support for our mission. Join today and your first three gifts will be matched, up to $10,000, by Bob and Mariann Hubbard.
Children are placed in foster care after enduring abuse, neglect, parental drug use or other issues, and many have experienced significant trauma, grief and loss in their lives.
The priority of the foster care system is to keep families together. But when a judge has ruled that it is unsafe for a child to return to their family of origin, they need someone to step forward to adopt them.
children are lingering in foster care across the U.S.
of these young people age out of the system without a family every year.
youth will be homeless after age 18 without the support of a permanent family.
At one point, I thought I was going to be out on the streets.
How We Help
At the heart of our work is a commitment to understand the needs and lived experiences of the children and youth we serve, improve access for families who want to adopt from foster care and build an organization that supports the broader child welfare community.
Our strategic priorities and signature programs are grounded in research and created with a racial equity lens.
With help from our caring supporters and partners, we are urgently working to raise public awareness and expand the reach of our life-changing programs, including:
Wendy’s Wonderful Kids®
Using a model proven to be up to 3x more effective in finding permanent families for the longest-waiting children in foster care.
Adoption-Friendly Workplace
Promoting the importance of offering adoption and foster care benefits and providing resources to thousands of employers.
National Adoption Day
Raising awareness and recognizing the adoptions of 90,000+ children from foster care through this annual event.
How You Can Help
There are many ways to get involved and make a difference.
“The more you give to others, the more you get in return.”
From Sibling Pact to Home at Last:
Caleb and Dylan’s Story
When Caleb and his brother Dylan were placed in foster care, Caleb didn’t understand what was happening.
“I never understood the bad side of things, so I didn’t know why I was being moved away,” he said. Things were falling apart as his mother struggled with substance use and eventually his father abandoned them.
