Financial Assistance for Your Adoption

gogTFM2000 — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 15:24:07 +0000

Many families worry about how they’ll afford an adoption. Some have never been through this process before, and others have overpaid attorneys or big agencies without a successful adoption.

Wondering how you’ll afford an addition to your family is completely normal. But fundraising for your adoption and applying for grants can help to ease some financial burden and anxiety.

Below, we’ve shared a list of resources regarding financial assistance for your adoption:

Grants for Domestic Adoption

Advocates for Adoption: Be the One

Be the One awards $500 quarterly to applicants living in Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky. Please mail your application to:

9667 Searcy Ridge

Patriot, IN 47038

Both Hands Foundation

Both Hands serves both widows and orphans while supporting adoptive families. With this service project, you’ll help a local widow by painting, cleaning, and/or landscaping her home. You and your team then work to fundraise for your adoption.

The Buescher Foundation

You can choose to send in your application by February 1, May 1, August 1, or November 1.

Cade Foundation

Couples with an infertility diagnosis who are legal, permanent U.S. residents may apply for this grant. You can use your Cade Foundation grant (up to $10,000) to help with infertility treatment or domestic adoption. The grant requires a $50 nonrefundable application fee and has two grant cycles:

Spring: Apply by February 1; hear back by June 1; redeem your grant by July 31; receive funds on August 1.
Fall: Apply by July 1; hear back by October 15; redeem your grant by December 31; receive funds on January 1.

Dream 4 Adoption

This is a $1,500 grant, with a $500 “welcome home” grant. Dream4Adoption currently runs two cycles per year: May 1 – September 30 and November 1 – March 31.

Gift of Adoption Fund

Gift of Adoption offers a grant you can apply for any time for a $50 fee. The award amounts vary (up to $10,000), and the grant committee meets monthly to determine award recipients.

This grant places precedence on awarding for relative/kinship domestic adoptions. For international adoptions, Gift of Adoption works to unite or preserve biological siblings, to prevent children from aging out, to prevent special needs children from becoming institutionalized, and to help children with life-threatening health conditions who will not receive proper medical care unless they’re adopted.

Please mail your application and $50 fee to:

Gift of Adoption Fund

Attn: Grants Manager

P.O. Box 567

Techny, IL 60082

Hands of Hope Indiana

This matching grant awards $1,000 to $4,000 to adoptive families. Please contact:

Megan Cutshaw

Attn: Adoption Grants & Loans

P.O. Box 40

Gridley, IL 61744

Help Us Adopt

There’s no application fee for this grant, which awards $500 to $15,000 to waiting families. Please mail your application to:

Help Us Adopt

P.O. Box 787

New York, NY 10150

Due dates: Postmark your application by:

December 7 (or online by December 14)
March 23 (or online by March 30)
June 8 (or online by June 15)
September 7 (or online by September 14)

JSC Foundation

See “Requirements” to find out if you’re eligible: www.jscfoundation.org/requirements

Katelyn’s Fund

This foundation gives a $3,000 grant, as well as $1,500 to two other families when resources allow. Higher priority is given to families with an annual income under $100,000. Applicants may be interviewed in person or via conference call. These interviews must take place before travel occurs or WITHIN 45 days of a child being domestically placed in your home and BEFORE final travel for an international placement.

Please send completed applications and materials to:

Katelyn’s Fund – Application Coordinator

1327 3rd Ave. SE

Sioux Center, IA 51250

Lifesong for Orphans

This organization strives to place children with two-parent Christian families with matching grants and other financial assistance.

Please mail your application to:

Lifesong for Orphans

Attn: Adoption Assistance

PO Box 9

Gridley, IL 61744

Mighty Families by Adoption

Mighty Families by Adoption serves couples who cannot have (or can no longer have) biological children and who are pursuing infant domestic adoption. Families with an annual income of $80,000 or less will be prioritized for financial assistance.

Awarded families will receive up to $20,000 for adoption-related expenses, which can include agency and/or attorney fees. Applications fill almost instantly, so be sure to apply as soon as the next one opens up!

National Adoption Foundation

This organization awards families quarterly with $500 to $2,000 grants. You can apply online by clicking here.

Sacred Selections

Sacred Selections is a nonprofit organization that provides the financial means to fund adoptions for Christian couples committed to opening their hearts and lives for children in need of loving homes.

Please mail your application to:

Sacred Selections

4144 Shores Road

Murfreesboro, TN 37128

Show Hope

This organization awards $5,000 to families hoping to adopt. There’s no application fee, and you can apply online as long as your home study or home study update is complete.

Show Hope gives grants each quarter, so please apply by March 31, June 30, September 30, or December 31.

Grants for Special Needs Adoption

Brittany’s Hope

This program asks recipient families to raise half of their total grant amount to help future families bring their child home. You can reach this goal through tax-deductible donations from family, friends, colleagues, neighbors, or individuals from your community. Brittany’s Hope provides each family with a set of customized fundraising tools that will help them to meet their goal. You can apply for this grant at any time.

Golden Dawn

This organization helps families of faith adopt babies with special needs and other hard-to-place children. There’s a $20 application fee, but you can apply anytime for an award of up to $2,000.

Other Helpful Resources

Our professionals can walk you through the adoption process while helping you apply for financial assistance.

Gifts of Grace Adoption Support Center has worked with expecting moms, adoptive families, and children in the Lafayette, Indiana community since 2013. We believe that quality, affordable, Christ-centered adoption services empower pregnant moms and dads, create thriving adoptive families, and help all children be placed in a loving home.

For more information, please contact us. You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.

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15 Adoption Fundraising Ideas

gogTFM2000 — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 13:00:44 +0000

Adoption is a wonderful journey that brings life-changing joy, but it can also be costly. We know there are many families who deeply desire to welcome a little one into their home through adoption, so we try to lower adoption costs however we can.

Here are some adoption fundraising ideas to help you address the financial challenges you may face:

1. Have a garage sale.

Ask friends and family to donate items. You could even advertise that you’re fundraising for a special cause: adopting a child!

2. Host an online auction.

Ask your favorite authors, restaurant owners, and stores to donate gift baskets or gift certificates for an online auction.

3. Host a consultant party!

Ask your Mary Kay or MLM consultant friends to host an in-person or online party. Make sure you work with one who will donate a percentage of their sales toward your adoption.

4. Sell T-shirts.

There are a variety of online sites where you can create a t-shirt fundraising campaign. You may receive a better response if you don’t make the t-shirt specific to your family or your adoption. The more general your slogan is, the more appealing it may be.

5. Create an Etsy shop for homemade items.

If you have a special skill set, offer custom designs and sell them online.

6. Have a bake sale!

Do you have a knack for baking homemade goodies? Sell your talents with a bake sale at your office or church!

7. Host a taco night or a pancake breakfast.

Reach out to your local church or community center to see if they can reserve a space for you. Ask local restaurants if they’re willing to donate food or materials for your event as well.

8. Look into crowdfunding options.

Check out AdoptTogether, a website for adoption donations.

9. Send letters to loved ones, coworkers, and church members.

In these letters, you’ll explain your needs and goals for adoption. You can also provide different levels of donations they can support you with. Consider setting up an adoption fundraising website for easy online donations, too.

10. Sell prayer bracelets.

This is a great way to invite others into your adoption journey through prayer. After all, it takes a village to raise (and pray for) a child!

11. Set up a giving tree.

During the holidays, have a small giving tree with different ornaments that coworkers and church members can take. Each ornament will have a different donation amount they can provide.

12. Offer community services.

Use the money you make to help with fundraising. Mow lawns, hold photography sessions, detail someone’s car, clean their house, or do anything that lets you use your skills to help others!

13. Plan a fun, active fundraiser!

Hold a 5K run, walk-a-thon, or bowling fundraiser, with proceeds going toward your adoption.

14. Consider where your family can cut expenses.

Maybe there’s a streaming subscription you could go without. Or perhaps you can put even more of your paycheck into savings or your adoption fund.

15. Apply for adoption grants.

Visit our “Financial Assistance for Adoption” blog for adoption grants and financial assistance you can apply for.

We can help you navigate the joys, challenges, and emotions of adoption — including fundraising and financial assistance resources.