Families Are Special offers the following list
of resources in order to make adoption affordable for more families.
A Child Waits Foundation Loans for international adoptions .
Adoption Financing Before you take a loan out from someone else, consider borrowing from yourself. Many company 401K plan allow employees to borrow up to 50 percent of their current 401K balance.
Adoption Cost Federal and state adoption subsidies may be available for the ongoing care of children with special physical, mental, or emotional needs.
Adoption Subsidy: Negotiating and Renegotiating Your Child's Contract Congress created the subsidy program (Public Law 96-272) to encourage foster parents and others to adopt waiting children because permanency offers important lifelong and generational benefits to children.
Adoption Fundraisers Fundraisers that adopting families can use to earn money for their own adoptions
Adopting Loans There are several options available to adopting parents who need help handling the costs associated with adoption. These include using savings, selling property, raising money through individual efforts, tax credits, employer benefits, and loan.
Adopt America Network
Educational grants are made from the
earnings of Didham Family Educational Fund (a fund within the Ransom-Weis
Endowment for Adoption America Network) to assist families of adopted children
in providing for their maximum development and educational success. The maximum
amount of a single grant will be $1000 dollars.
Acres of Hope
Acres of Hope, Inc., is a non-profit charitable foundation
dedicated to providing educational information, emotional support,
parent-to-parent support, advocacy services, financial assistance, and a loan
program for families dealing with children of physical and emotional challenges.
Adorable Adoption Adorable Adoption offers grants for qualified families who are pursuing international adoption with the Yunona adoption agency. Grants are as follows: $2,000 per one child or $4,000 for two children.
Bright Futures Adoption Assistance
Foundation
The Bright Futures foundation helps orphans to find forever families by
providing small grants to prospective adoptive parents.
Brittany's Hope They put grant money on specific children that are submitted to them by placing agencies in the hopes of getting potential families interested in the child.
China Care Foundation
China Care Foundation is especially interested in helping
families who are adopting special needs children. To encourage the adoption and
care of orphans from China, the China Care Foundations provides financial aid in
the form of grants or loans for the adoption and/or medical treatment of
orphans.
Christian Adoption Resources
Prospective adoptive couples may apply for a grant after they
have an approved home study from a licensed adoption agency. Their adoption
agency must provide a letter of recommendation.
Dave Thomas Foundation For Adoption The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption is able to fund only a small percentage of the requests that we receive. The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption’s primary interest is in funding projects that directly impact permanency through adoption of waiting children in the United States and Canada. Emphasis will be given to programs and projects on a national or regional basis that will help move children out of foster care and into adoptive homes. The Foundation is especially interested in addressing the permanency needs of children who are older, medically and/or emotionally challenged, from an ethnic minority and/or sibling groups who seek to be adopted together.
Financing an Adoption This financial assistance is available to ensure that families who adopt these children have the necessary services and financial resources to meet their children's ongoing needs. These subsidies are generally only available for adoptions within the United States.
ForeAdoption.Com To start the grant process you must have a completed, certified home study, current in your state. You must also have a pending adoption.
Gift of Adoption Fund
Grants are Awarded
to qualified United States
citizens regardless of marital status, race, creed or national origin. Average
grants awarded range between $2000 – $5000.
Hebrew Free Loan Association
HFLA interest-free loans available to Jewish
adults who wish to adopt children internationally or domestically.
His Kids Too Is a Christian non-profit international humanitarian aid organization that provides aid to orphans and widows. For parent(s) adopting international children, His KidsToo! provides an adoption grant of up to $2,000 for one child, and up to $4,000 for two children. Grants are paid directly to the agency or facilitation service (for independent adoptions, grants approved on a case-by-case basis.)
International adoption Center The International Adoption Center provides adoption grants to qualifying families. Up to a maximum of $1,000 per couple. A letter stating the nature of the financial need, along with supporting documents, is required for consideration.
JSW Adoption Foundation
(Website not available) The JSW Adoption Foundation is a private foundation
established to assist potential adoptive parents by providing cash grants to
subsidize a portion of the adoption expenses. Grants awarded are valued at
$2,000 and up. Preference is given to childless applicants and those who are
experiencing extraordinary hardship and financial need.
Love Knows No Borders LKNB embodies the organization's belief that financial concerns need not serve as an obstacle to those individuals and couples willing to open their hearts to a child through adoption.
National Adoption Foundation
The grant program has no exclusions as to race,
ethniticity, gender, age, sexual orientation, family characteristics, or income.
The program is open to all legal adoptions of non-related children, and does not
exclude private adoption, agency adoption, international adoption, or special
needs adoption. The primary requirement for eligibility is a home study (either
completed or in process). The grant program is open to all legal
adoptions including public or private agency adoptions, international, special
needs or adoptions facilitated by an attorney, and there is no income
requirement.
North American Council on Adoptable
Children Arkansas State Subsidy Profile Adoption subsidies are available for children
with special needs. Federal subsidies were created by Congress (through Public
Law 96-272 – the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980) to
encourage the adoption of special needs children and remove the financial
disincentives to adoption for the families. Children may receive a federally
funded subsidy under Title IV-E or a state-funded subsidy as per state
guidelines.
National Adoption Information Clearinghouse A financial resource for families pursuing international adoptions.
Shaohanna's Hope is dedicated to caring for orphans by engaging the church and helping Christian families reduce the financial burden of adoption. They accomplish this by awarding financial adoption grants to qualified families already in the process of adopting. The size of the grant awarded is determined by several factors, the most important being need. With a commitment in faith by the family. For information on applying for a grant, please visit www.shaohannahshope.org.
Waiting Child Loan Fund No interest loans of up to $5,000 for adopting special needs children through WACP.