Why Partner with Gift of Adoption?
A partnership with Gift of Adoption can engage your employees and blend your company’s goals with the mission of Gift of Adoption—to unite vulnerable children with permanent families. 81 million Americans have considered adoption, creating a large and untapped audience to engage with the joint goals of increasing product sales and bringing children home. Uniquely, 100% of your contribution can be directed to adoption assistance grants, creating true value to share with your stakeholders.
Partnership Opportunities
Create a Fund
Engage employees through direct impact in areas where they live and work. Creating a fund focused on your company’s mission or geographical footprint helps local families who can then share their stories within your organization.
Mission-Focused Funds:
#RareIs Adoption Fund: Seeded with $150,000 by Horizon Therapeutics, 100% of funds provide adoption assistance to unite children with rare diseases with their forever families in the U.S., ensuring they receive the care they need to thrive. Employees receive stories of the children they have helped to come home along with updates as they receive the care they need. See the impact: https://www.horizontherapeutics.com/company/corporate-social-responsibility
Geographical Footprint Funds: Providing adoption assistance where employees live and work.
For more information on our restricted funds, please contact skomlofske@giftofadoption.org.
Cause Marketing
Adoptive families are a large, and largely untapped audience for a marketing campaign. Companies have a unique opportunity to be a leader in promoting and supporting adoption assistance as a philanthropic priority. Funds raised will unite children with the hardworking families Gift of Adoption grants support, including small business owners, nurses, teachers, military, and so many others representing the backbone of the U.S. economy. November is National Adoption Month, providing a focused time period to celebrate and support this wonderful way to create a family.
For more information on our cause marketing campaigns, please contact skomlofske@giftofadoption.org.
How to become a cause marketing partner
Creative promotions get consumers excited to purchase products that give back and help to create and enhance brand loyalty. Every $4,000 raised unites a child with his or her permanent family in the U.S. with 0% going to overhead expenses.
Consider a marketing initiative which includes:
- A percent of a product’s sales or the opportunity to “round up”.
- Creating a specific product to support Gift of Adoption.
Color Street Nails offered a product in June 2020 to support adoption and foster care related nonprofits which sold out in just 3 days.
- Adding Gift of Adoption to a choice of charities to support through your website.
Gift of Adoption shares the stories of the children brought home through funding from the cause marketing initiative and promotes the partnership and its impact on our website and social media.
Gift of Adoption is a highly rated charity that adheres to the Better Business Bureau’s Standards for Charity Accountability and holds a 3 star Charity Navigator rating.
Sponsorship
Gift of Adoption has 24 volunteer-led chapters around the country which hold events to raise funds and create awareness of adoption assistance as a philanthropic priority for all those who care about children.
Chapter Board sponsorship: Sponsor the board donation for a Chapter volunteer.
Allstate’s Foster and Adoption Network sponsors chapter board members in overlapping chapter markets to promote our shared mission.
Event sponsorship: see our list of upcoming events. Make an impact in your local market by becoming a sponsor.
Workplace Giving
We know that when you take the time to give, you want simple and convenient options. Regular contributions through existing workplace giving programs combine for life-changing transformations for children in need of families.
Double the impact of your employee giving with your employer matching gift program
If your employer or your spouse’s employer has a matching gift program, your gift to Gift of Adoption may be doubled or even tripled. In some cases, a spouse’s company will also match the gift.
DOES YOUR EMPLOYER MATCH YOUR GIFT?
Use the search bar below to quickly find out if your employer matches gifts. Follow the instructions to fill out your employer’s matching gift form and send it to us at
donation@giftofadoption.org or mail to: Gift of Adoption | PO Box 567 | Techny | IL | 60082
Join an existing workplace giving campaign
Each year thousands of employees are given the opportunity to direct a portion of their paycheck to the charities of their choice through workplace giving campaigns. You can help us serve more children in need of safe, loving and permanent homes by directing your workplace contribution to Gift of Adoption
Federal employees
Write Gift of Adoption on your pledge card and use our CFC number: 95108
United Way workplace campaigns
Write Gift of Adoption in as a designation on the pledge card, along with our address: P.O. Box 567, Techny IL 60082. Gift of Adoption’s EIN is 39-1863217
For questions or additional information about workplace giving, please email donation@giftofadoption.org.
Gifts In-Kind
When organizations donate goods or services, those donations are considered gifts-in-kind. Gift of Adoption has a unique and critical need for in-kind donations of travel-related services, but donations of other products will also contribute to our program’s success.
Travel Related
Travel expenses can be 10 to 30% of the final costs an adopting family must cover. Families adopting domestically often travel across the country to be by their baby’s side during an extended stay in a hospital. Internationally, some countries require multiple trips and long stays in the country before an adoption can be completed.
Consider:
- Donating empty hotel rooms for an adoptive family’s stay.
- Providing a free airplane seat for the return trip of a newly adopted child from overseas.
- Providing coupons for a free meal at a restaurant chain so adopting families can stay nourished while traveling to meet their child.
- Providing gift cards for gas to fuel the car for the trip.
Other In-Kind gifts
- Auction items for local events.
- Welcome home packages or gift cards for the 500 plus newly adopted children Gift of Adoption helps each year.
If you would like to discuss an in-kind partnership, please contact Sharon Komlofske (skomlofske@giftofadoption.org).