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Adoption Fundraising – Part 2

Here are a few more ideas for how to fundraise for your adoption: Garage Sale With this fundraiser, contact everyone you know and ask them if they have stuff to donate to your garage sale. Often people will have items sitting in their garage or in their attic and they will be thrilled to have you come haul it away. Another idea that I have heard of is that you can advertise in the paper that you will pick up the “leftovers” from other people’s garage sales. After a long day of selling, many people are thrilled to have you … Continue reading →

Adoption Fundraising, Part 1

You’ve looked at your resources, you’ve cut back your budget, and you’ve applied for a bunch of loans and grants. You look at your adoption budget . . . and there’s still a deficit. Welcome to the world of adoption. If you did get this far and you’ve paid for your adoption, then congratulations! However, most of us just aren’t in this category. Now that you’ve pursued these first avenues to fund your adoption, you need to get creative. Now is the time for fundraising! Here are some great ways to fundraise for your adoption: Letters to Family and Friends … Continue reading →

Funding Your Adoption – Grants and Loans

In the last article on adoption funding, we talked about how you can take advantage of your resources to fund your adoption, as well as finding ways to cut back. This is where you should start, but for many families it won’t be enough. Another resource for adoptive families are adoption grants and loans. Grants Adoption grants are a wonderful resource for families. Non profit organizations, many of them run by religious organizations, try to help defray the huge cost of adoption for families. Some grants, like those offered by the National Adoption Foundation, do not have specific requirements. Others, … Continue reading →

Getting Past the Cost of International Adoption

When a couple decides to consider international adoption, one of the first things they ask about is the cost. The answer they get is pretty discouraging. The average international adoption costs somewhere between $25,000 – $40,000 according to surveys. That’s a lot of money. It’s a scary amount of money. For the typical family, it seems impossible. Many families look at the cost to adopt internationally and quickly decide they can’t adopt. However, that is just not the case. Adoption is an option for families of all income levels. Many of these families go on to adopt two or three … Continue reading →