Our Initiatives
"Foster-Share" Closet
Fostering Hope’s Foster-Share Closet will help you always be prepared for a placement!
The Foster-Share Closet was Fostering Hope’s very first initiative. Soon after the Directors of Fostering Hope became foster parents, they realized how crucial the support, donations, and offers for help they had were to their success as foster parents. They decided to relieve the burden of frantically searching for the needed basics from other foster families as well.
Dignity Duffels
Fostering Hope is providing foster children new duffle bags to use for their belongings when moving from one home to another.
Imagine this… You’re a child. A caseworker knocks on the door to your home. They tell you that you can’t stay there anymore, that it’s no longer safe for you. You’re told that you’re going to stay with some new parents (aka – strangers) for a while. You’re confused and scared. You have no idea how long until you’ll be able to see your mommy and daddy again. Then, the caseworker tells you to pack up the things you want to take with you and hands you a trash bag.
Bags of Hope
Fostering Hope is providing foster children with bags containing the basic necessities needed when entering a new home.
When a child enters foster care it can be a scary and confusing time. Many times they come to their temporary foster homes with nothing but the clothes on their backs. We want to offer a small gift to these children and their foster families to ease some of that fear and uncertainty.
Fostering Hope - A foster share community
Fostering Hope is a volunteer-run 501(c)(3) organization that serves foster families and children in Southeaster PA.
Why we help
We've all heard "It takes a village..." when raising our children and we feel the same is true when raising someone else's children, even if it's only temporary. Fostering Hope wants to provide an exchange of resources to those who are willing and able to turn their families into foster families.
Our history
Fostering Hope is a community that began as a few fosters and helpers that attended Christ's Church of the Valley in the Philadelphia metro area. Before long it became apparent that the willingness and ability for these families to open their homes was largely impacted by the support they received from those with a heart to donate time, supplies and a helping hand.
Volunteers
Fostering Hope is 100% volunteer run. We could not do what we do without our awesome team of dedicated volunteers. We have a wide variety of volunteer roles including inventory support, administrative work, facilitating Bags of Hope, and more! Volunteers are always needed and welcome! If you are interested in volunteering with us please start here.
Alyssa Dourte
Director of Operations
Adrienne Cavanaugh
Director of Development
Kimberly Jenkins
Treasurer
Michelle Filling-Brown
Administrator
Mary Rowe Mundy
Outreach Coordinator
Christie Telep
Closet Manager