Mission Statement
Services
“NFPA believes in the importance of family-based care for foster children and that every child deserves a permanent family”
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Ways to Support
Advocate foster children well-being Provide services for foster children and parents
“Together We Rise is a non-profit organization dedicated to transforming the way youth navigate through the foster care system in America.”
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Provide foster children with transportation College fundraising Provide duffle bags
How many people Impacted
Not Available
Goal of 100,000 annually
Donate (money, bicycles, scholarship funds, duffel bags), • Volunteer, • Individual Projects (improve transportation, connect foster youth with parents based on interests, etc.) Over 1500 Annually
Revenue
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Donate (Money) Volunteer Becoming a member Start a scholarship fund
“The mission of NFCC is to build momentum for change by harnessing a collective voice and enabling collaborative action to promote the well-being of children, youth and families impacted by the child welfare system.” • Advocate foster children well-being • Support local, state, and federal initiatives • Provide technical assistance to parents and professionals • Foster care system education • Donate (Money) • Volunteer • Become a member • Start a scholarship fund • Become a mentor • Offer training
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“Youth Homes provides a safe place for foster youth to heal and grow.”
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Residential care Day programs Therapeutic behavior services Aftercare Mentoring Summer garden Workforce development
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Donate(money), Volunteer, Becoming a foster parent Grants Event sponsor
600 children and families in 2013
$5,817,725 (2013)
Expenses
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$146,429 (2009)
$5,702,197 (2013)
When looking at the different types of foster care organizations, the joining of the National Foster Care Coalition (NFCC) and Together We Rise could be quite a successful enterprise. Each offers the best of both non-profit worlds: NFCC is a large organization possible of reaching more people, while Together We Rise is more specified and tailored for basic foster care needs. NFCC looks to advocate the well being of foster care children by providing education, funding, and volunteering for foster children. Additionally, the NFCC it is consisted mainly of foster parents and other individuals involved in foster care that are not directly foster children. Together We Rise is tailored more towards the individual foster child, and aims to donate foster care children with bicycles, duffel bags, and other everyday resources a they could need. By combining these services with existing funding and resources, a co-op between the two organizations would be more impactful in the foster care community. The NFCC would have the ability of reaching out to more individuals to gather donations and volunteers, while Together We Rise would have the know how of impacting foster children at a more meaningful individual basis. However, there could be some conflicting ideals. Since NFCC is is a larger organization it could have some difficulty adopting the ideals and services of a smaller organization. Yet, with the co-op and full interest by both organizations surely services offered by both sides could be combined to create an even more impactful foster care organization.
References National Foster Care Coalition. 2016. Accessed May 18, 2016. http://www.nationalfostercare.org/. National Foster Parent Association. 2016. Accessed May 18, 2016. http://nfpaonline.org/. Together We Rise. 2016. Accessed May 18, 2016. https://www.togetherwerise.org/. National Foster Care Coalition. 2016. Accessed May 18, 2016. http://www.nationalfostercare.org/.
