By Rita L. Soronen, President & CEO One year ago, our world changed dramatically and in ways we could never have imagined as COVID-19 spread, closing schools, shutting down businesses and leaving us with unrelenting separation and longing for the physical connection of family and friends. As the
Adopted as an infant, Charlie realized in college that his dream career would be to help find permanent, loving families for other children in need. Today, he is living that dream as a Wendy’s Wonderful Kids® adoption recruiter in Washington. Through our Wendy’s Wonderful Kids program, the Dave Thom
At the heart of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption’s work is the belief that justice and the right to be free of fear and harm must be equally applied to all of our children. Racism can have no home in our hearts The murders of Ahmaud Abrery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Tony McDade and so man
Placed in foster care at age 8, Austin spent the next three years of his young life longing for the security and stability of a permanent home. He often felt undeserving, unworthy and not capable of accomplishing anything. Fortunately, Austin’s journey changed with help from his Wendy’s Wonderful Ki
By: Bonnie Meibers The Wendy’s Wonderful Kids® program is celebrating helping 10,000 kids find adoptive homes. One of those 10,000 helped by the program is Sarah Dykes, who was adopted by Dayton resident Robin Saldivar in April of 2019. Robin and Sarah on Sarah’s adoption day. The Wendy’s
Rita Soronen, President & CEO of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, joined Marcy Bursac on her podcast, The Forgotten Adoption Option. Marcy is an author and blogger who adopted two siblings from foster care. “Every child deserves a family ― not just some children ― but every child…,
Dear Friends, More than a decade ago, as children continued to leave foster care without a permanent family and at alarming rates, we realized that the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption needed to do much more to fulfill our mission of “dramatically increasing the number of adoptions of children wa
The Foundation’s Wendy’s Wonderful Kids® program serves youth most at risk of aging out of foster care without a permanent family Columbus, Ohio — The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, a national nonprofit public charity, is proud to announce that its signature program, Wendy’s Wonderful Kids®, h
Foundation committed to finding adoptive homes for the more than 30,000 children waiting in Canada’s foster care system. Burlington, ON — The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption-Canada recently welcomed John Mulvihill, Senior Director, Supply Chain Management at Wendy’s® Quality Supply Chain C
Foundation committed to finding adoptive homes for the more than 150,000 children waiting in North America’s foster care systems. Columbus, Ohio — The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, a national, non-profit public charity, today welcomed Laura Butrico as a member of its board of trustees. Butric
