Crazy expensive!!
We had a few friends that wrote reference letter after reference letter for us. We are incredibly blessed to be walking alongside of some fabulous people in this thing called life. I know life is busy and they would drop everything and send off a reference letter whenever i called.
One of the grants we applied for was through The Orphan Foundation.
The Orphan Foundation - This a foundation with programs that range from providing financial grants to low and middle-income adopting families, to a host of other volunteer services. They are all volunteers who are trying to make a difference in the life of a child. Their website says they award approximately 10 grants of $500 per child yearly, and they review their incoming grants on a quarterly bases. Their application process was fairly brief and entirely on the web. I received a response for them and hope they will be reviewing my application soon.
Sadly, they only have funding for 3 families this quarter. By the grace of God, we were one of the three. We received a $500 grant today. I am amazed at God's hand on our adoption.
The reality is that their funding is still very low, and The Orphan Foundation is trying a variety of ways to raise monies.
The have a program at a crowd-funding site, Indiegogo: http://www.Indiegogo.com/100orphans, but you can see that they haven’t yet reached the halfway mark to one $500 grant.
They think they will be able to issue 1-2 grants next quarter, but unfortunately, their push to raise additional donations has been more than offset by many new applications for grants.
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