Update: All gifts TRIPLED through 12/31
All year-end gifts to the Foundation will now be TRIPLED by The Wendy’s Company and a generous group of donors, until we reach our $200,000 goal.
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.”
Resources to Support the Adoption Journey
We offer a variety of resources for parents and professionals.
Room to Grow:
Sean’s Story
Anyone who knows Sean knows that he loves cars. Naturally, when his class went to visit the school library, he wanted to find a book about his favorite subject — a challenge that Laura, the school’s librarian, gladly accepted.
That conversation marked the beginning of a lifelong connection.
