Gift of Adoption Fund Inc

They were there to help when we had no where else to turn. Without their grant we would have not been able to finalize our sons adoption. We are forever grateful for this amazing organization!

We thought adoption a second time was not possible due to the high cost, but then we found Gift of Adoption. We were able to easily apply to them our need and in a very timely manner they awarded us with the exact amount that we needed to complete our adoption. Ease of application, and communication throughout was excellent. We highly recommend them to those that need adoption assistance. Gift of Adoption, in our opinion is a great nonprofit.

Gift of Adoption is a generous organization. Their grants are awarded at the end of one's adoption process. They help families get the last money they need to make their adoption happen! We are grateful for the Gift of Adoption! Great organization! Helpful people!

Adoption is beautiful. Adoption is hard. Gift of Adoption makes it easier. Their heart for and mission to love and serve families who have said yes to opening their lives to a child in need makes a difference. I know. They have made a difference in the life of my family. Twice. And for that we will be forever grateful.

Working with Gift of Adoption Fund Inc. was a wonderful experience. They helped provide financial support for our adoption. The staff was efficient and followed up with us after the adoption was complete.

Gift of Adoption made it possible for us to adopt our two newest sons from Ethiopia. I know this sounds irresponsible, but I don't know how we could have done it without their financial help. Our costs hovered around $40,000, and we had exhausted our savings, and couldn't take on any more jobs than we had already taken on. We are so grateful for their financial support, and their recommended trainings and books related to adoption (like on attachment).

Gift of Adoption Fund helped our family to bring our son with special needs home from China this year. Without their generosity, we would not have had the funds necessary to give a child without one a forever family! Grateful for their kind help support!

Gift of Adoption not only granted us with funds to help us adopt, but they have kept in contact with us, genuinely concerned about our post-adoption lives. Our newly-adopted children even received a huge box of gifts from various donors through Gift of Adoption. I cannot say enough positive things about this organization. They are excited with us, and that means more than I have words to say.

Gift of Adoption was vital to our fundraising and grant applications in order to pay for our two Ethiopian Adoptions! They were a great relief and were professional and wonderful to work with!

As a recent recipient of a grant from Gift of Adoption, I can say from experience that there are numerous aspects to the way Gift of Adoption Fund operates that make it a great non-profit to work with. When looking for financial support for the adoption of my 10 year old son this year, I applied to every adoption foundation I could. The online application process with GoA was stream-lined in a way that made it easy to figure out and communicate my financial situation. Once the application was submitted, they were great at sending email updates about the process, whereas some other organizations don't respond at all and I was left wondering and waiting for months. Another aspect that impressed me was how often they review applications - which is a big time commitment on their part but crucial for expectant parents, hoping for a positive outcome. Lastly, once I was notified of a grant award, it was only a week before the money was disbursed to my agency. The whole process went smoothly because of GoA's high level of efficiency and organization.

Gift of Adoption has helped us with four adoptions! They are amazing!

I am so thankful for gift of adoption support in my journey. Gift of adoption made it possible for me successfully complete the adoption of my beautiful daughter. I truly believe they are organization that shows compassion to forever families and I will forever remain thankful!!!

Gift of adoption has been amazing. We truly could not have brought our son home from Ethiopia without them!

We received an adoption grant from Gift of Adoption. They were caring, timely, and a blessing to my family.

Gift of Adoption helped bring our 2 girls home from Ethiopia! They had live for over 7 years in an orphanage after losing their parents as toddlers. We were able to complete our adoption debt free, much in part to the generosity and support of Gift of Adoption. They have been home over a year and absolutely thriving! Gift of Adoption has truly been a life changing gift to us.

Gift of Adoption was an integral part of us getting to bring our new daughter home from Uganda. They dealt with us in a way that was not only encouraging to us, but full of integrity as well.

We have loved working with Gift of Adoption. They helped us bring our baby girl home. They were very organized and timely in their responses to us. They are a very big part of our story!

Gift of Adoption blessed our family with financial help toward our first adoption. The staff was so kind and helpful. We ran into some unusual circumstances and they very graciously worked with us. We can't say enough good about this organization and would highly recommend them to other adoptive families!

Gift of Adoption blessed our family with a gift toward the adoption of our second baby girl, and we will forever be grateful. The team was wonderful to work with and went above and beyond to help us apply for the funds and receive them once we were approved. I have only great things to say about this organization and their work in helping families bring home adopted children.

I am so thankful to Gift of Adoption for the role they played in helping me bring my daughter home this past July. My sweet little girl was an older child (age 7) that had been listed over and over again on waiting list after waiting list. Her severe facial deformities made her chances of being adopted very slim, but fortunately I had adopted another child with the same problems and knew what could be done to give her a more normal appearance. Gift of Adoption helped me when unexpected medical costs for another child deleted the remaining funds I had scrimped together to complete my adoption. I felt frantic knowing I had 90% of the fees, etc. paid but lacked just enough to not be able to go get her. I cannot truly describe the joy and relief I felt when I received the email telling me that I had received a grant. My daughter was coming home! It is truly because of Gift of Adoption that I am witnessing now a precious little girl laughing and singing with her sibling knowing she is loved.

Our family was blessed with the last financial help we needed from GOA to complete our adoption. It had to be fast tracked but the staff came through. Our adoption is complete, our family is complete. Thanks you GOA

The last 2 years of our lives have been quite unbelievable. 2 years ago, we were asked - completely unexpectedly - to adopt my cousin's daughter. We already had 6 kids and thought we were done. My cousin had gotten into trouble and chose us. Her first call to us she was in a panic, just 2 weeks before her due date. We felt God open our hearts to receive her soon to be born daughter. We had no money to do this and yet we moved ahead with adopting her.

A year and a half later we were again invited, again unexpectedly, to adopt her second child - a son - into our lives as well. We now have 2 precious, and extra, additions into our family. We are richer by far as a result. And that's not to say that both situations didn't test us significantly!

God made all of this possible. And both times many friends, families and Gift of Adoption stood with us to do what we couldn't do on our own without financial and emotional assistance. We appreciate Gift of Adoption very much.

We were so incredibly blessed to receive a grant from Gift of Adoption to bring home our son from China. We feel as though God used Gift of Adoption to fulfill his plan for our family. We had no idea how we were going to cover the expenses but when the money was needed, it was provided and Gift of Adoption played a big part. The application process was easy. There was ongoing communication until the very end which provided us with ease during the process.

I truly believe that Gift of Adoption was a part of God's awesome plan to bring our daughter home. Financially pressed, we needed help with a very expensive international adoption. It was hard for us to consider how we were going to get the money we needed. We held on to God's promise that He will meet all our needs according to His riches in Christ Jesus. Right before we received our travel approval, Gift of Adoption blessed our family with the remaining money we needed to bring our daughter home. It was truly amazing! We we so grateful to GOA for their help. We are grateful to be a part of such an amazing organization and how they have blessed so many families. Thank you.

There is no other agency like Gift of Adoption. They truly understand your needs as a future adoptive parent, your fears and your desire to bring home your little one. The application process is very simple and the staff is amazing, very compassionate and dedicated to their work. We adopted our son from Colombia and we were struggling to get funds because the referral was quicker than we anticipated. Some other extra cost appeared and thank God we found GOA which helped us to relieve part of the financial stress. 100 percent satisfaction guarantee.

My husband and I felt lead to pursue adoption with just $500 in our checking account. Because we knew God was leading us in this direction we trusted Him to provide through any means He chose. We did various fundraisers along the way but as our paperwork progressed and we were finally matched with a birth mom we realized The Lord was giving us TWINS. This doubled our financial need. In addition the birth mom delivered THREE days after initially meeting us. This made our placement fee due a lot quicker than expected. We needed thousands of dollars more. I was hesitant about the potential long process applying for a grant could pose but we were amazed at how easy and quickly we received a response from GOA. They graciously provided our immediate need and allowed us to bring home our son AND daughter. We thank God for organizations like GOA that are willing to bridge the overwhelming financial gap and allow families to experience the joy and wonder of adoption. Thank you GOA, from the bottom of our hearts.

Gift of Adoption helped me to make a dream come come true. Adopting as a single parent wasn't easy, especially financially. Gift of Adoption helped to relieve some of the burden. Whenever I had questions I could call or e-mail & someone would get back with me. I was always treated with kindness & respect. I am truly thankful to your organization for helping to bring me & my daughter together. I would recommend this organization to others.

People that get to the phase of adoption that apply for grants have already made the tough decision to go through with it no matter what. Working with Gift of Adoption Fund was very encouraging at a tough time in the process. The process was well thought out and they collected the necessary information in a very effective way. All communication and web based interaction was also very well done and simple to navigate. Our family is very appreciative of Gift of Adoption Fund and everyone that we had the pleasure of working with.

Gift of Adoption has been an awesome blessing in our families lives . They have helped us with financial grants to bring home our 3 adopted children. Their process was straight forward and easy . They communicated with us throughout the process and regularly updated us on the status of our application.
We loved working with them and enjoyed them being a part of our adoption stories. The work that they do is helping to ease the financial burden of adoption and most importantly bring children into their families!!

We were so pleased with our Gift of Adoption experience. Our adoption happened very quickly and we were so blessed to have been a recipient of Gift of Adoption. The staff were very friendly and informative and kept us up to date with the process of our application. I would definitely recommend working with Gift of Adoption.

We LOVED working with Gift of Adoption! We had a very fast adoption and needed to get funds together quickly. GOA was great in communicating their timelines and procedures with us and their grant helped us so much in financing our adoption. We are so thankful for their assistance!!!

This was a great grant to work with! I was so impressed by their process and the ease of using updated technology to let them know where we were at in our adoption process.

We have been blessed through every step of our adoption of our daughter from Ukraine. God sent Gift of Adoption to us with perfect timing.

Their board was very easy to work with and explained the process well. Follow up was very good, which is what we needed, as we were away from home, out of the country and worrying about the last financing was not what we needed. It was nice to know we had an extended family that supported us and our adoption decision, in more ways than one!

So thankful for the Gift of Adoption.
The Higdons

Unlike so many others, our adoption went QUICKLY! We discovered our son as an older, "special needs" child on a waiting list, and his case just flew through court. We found ourself in the final leg, short on funds, doing everything we could to pull it together when we found out we received this grant. It truly was a gift, coming at the perfect time! Our son has now been with us for three months, and brings us more joy than we could ever put into words. This is a wonderful agency, polite and prompt in their e-mails, and it truly changes lives.

We recently finished the adoption of our sweet boy, and he is such a gift to our family. Gift of Adoption has been part of our adoption journey throughout the process, checking in to see how we have been doing and where the process is at. We always felt that Gift of Adoption's communication with us was very genuine and personal. We are so thankful for the help that Gift of Adoption has given to us in completing our adoption and helping us with the travel expenses of traveling to/from our son's country to finish him becoming ours and us becoming his. Thank you Gift of Adoption!

Gift of Adoption helped us meet the last of our expenses - to be able to travel to my daughter's birth country and afford the extended stay. Although I was going to have some leave to take from work, over half of my time gone and the few weeks we spent together on returning to the States were leave without pay. We couldn't be more grateful.

Without the timely grant from Gift of adoption we wound't have been able to adopt our daughter from China. Throughout the process they kept us well informed and distributed our funds when we needed them We give Gift of adoption 5 stars and are very thankful!

We were very impressed with everyone at Gift of Adoption! The application was easy and everyone was so nice. We had applied for so many grants to help fund our adoption and had basically given up. We are so very grateful for the help!

So.... We adopted a little girl that needed a break. A big one ! We needed her also , she is adorable and the sweetest toddler u EVER met. Honestly ! We have 4 kids biologically and she makes a great 5th! We are so appreciative that we received financial help from this wonderful non profit organization. Gift of adoption ... U rock!

The application process was very easy and the staff were available and courteous when I called with questions. After granting us a gift, they were very proactive in keeping us up-to-date with their organization and how our adoption was such a blessing to them! We felt valued and loved by this organization!

The application process for Gift of Adoption was easy and their staff answered questions in a timely manner. After we received the grant, they worked with us to ensure all our paperwork was complete so that we could get the funds as quickly as possible. We adopted siblings from Bulgaria and the total cost of the adoption (including travel) was more than $55,000, so the Gift of Adoption grant helped us bring our children home without having to take out loans. We would highly recommend Gift of Adoption to any potential clients!

Gift of Adoption is a fabulous organization! With their grant, we were able to fly to Thailand and pick our son up. The funds provided the airline tickets we needed and was such an incredible blessing. They were wonderful to work with and were very thorough. We appreciate they way they help adoptive families in such a tangible way!

Gift of Adoption has been a great asset to our family!! The peace that we have of knowing that our finalization costs will be covered is incredible. We were unsure of how we were going to pay for these costs, but God provided like He said He would. The process was well instructed and fairly easy to follow, any questions that we had were quickly returned. Our handsome son has been home with us for seven months now and we look forward to everyday that we have with him.

Gift of Adoption truly helped us on our journey!!

It was a beautiful introduction to the first day of Fall. The sun was shining, the sky was blue and it was a pleasantly warm day. As my husband dropped us off by the courthouse, I walked into the building hand-in-hand with my girls. My girls. Chloe had never once felt like she didn't belong to me. She had been beautifully placed into our family as if she was always meant to be a part of it. And on this day, we were able to make that feeling become a permanent reality.

Gift of Adoption may not have been directly involved with the legal finalization of our adoption for our daughter, Chloe, but the journey to adopt would not have been completed as quickly without their help. Through the arduous process of filling out countless paperwork and waiting to receive word on whether or not we would be selected to receive grants to assist with the financial burden of our private adoption, Gift of Adoption was in communication with us every step of the way. I never felt like our interactions with them were impersonal. They took the time to contact us, requested updated information, and treated us like our family was unique and special.

Thank you GOA for helping our dream of growing our family become a reality!

Next month I will welcome my little boy into the world. I am so very grateful to Gift of Adoption for the grant of $2500 to help with the extensive costs with the adoption. They have been great to work with and I appreciate the process being very clear. I wouldn't have been able to afford the adoption fees without their help. So excited to finally fulfill my dream of becoming a mom!

Even though our family had been in process and waiting (and saving) for three years, we stil had signifant expenses ahead with an anticipated six week stay in country while waiting for the completion of the adoption/immigration prior to returning home with our two new family members.
After applying for several grants we were simply hoping for some positive response and were blown away by the generous gift. Thank you so much for your blessing on our family.
Today we celebrated our one year anniversary with our 2 youngest family members!
We are blessed and grateful.

Gift of Adoption helped us become a family! We were fortunate enough to receive an amazing grant from Gift of Adoption which helped us bring our daughter home from China. We are so thankful. They were so understanding and helpful. Amazing organization!

My husband and I were very fortunate to receive an incredible grant from Gift of Adoption this past summer. We applied thinking we would be lucky to get $500 and we were totally shocked when we received a grant in the amount of $7,500. The adoption of our son was very unexpected as we were not looking to adopt another child, though we were contacted out of the blue by our daughter's birth mom saying she had just had a baby boy and wanted us to adopt him. We were given 48 hours by our adoption agency to make up our mind. Our hearts immediately said yes, but our heads said there is no way you can afford this! Thankfully, we listened to our hearts and prayed that somehow, we would find away to make it work out. And by the grace of God, Gift of Adoption provided us with our incredible grant to help us make it happen and bring home our son! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!! We would not have been able to make it work without this incredible gift!

After just completing an adoption of an older child in 2010 we had already begun to feel The Lord calling us adopt again. By early 2013 we had a referral for our second adoption. Feeling overwhelmed by the financial cost we reached out to several adoption grant agencies. We received several rejections but were extremely grateful and blessed to receive a grant from Gift of Adoption. With two required trips overseas, one for our court date and one to bring our new teenage daughter home, the grant from Gift of Adoption was a lifesaver. In addition to the adoption, we had also only recently completed a family move which we were still recovering from. What a tremendous blessing!! I know our family and many other adoptive families would not be able to complete their adoption without help from agencies like Gift of Adoption. Thank you so much to each individual and family that contributes and makes overcoming the financial obstacles a possibility for families like ours who desire to adopt but do not have all the financial resources necessary!!

On March 31, 2014 the referral that we had waited so long for finally arrived. We received a call with a opportunity to adopt a little girl that was 10 months old. We had to make the decision in 2 weeks to accept to decline the referral. We had limited information on her health but we had many resources to seek medical opinions from. We sought advice and from many people both on a personal and professional level. The one area that we were absolutely least concerned about to this point was the financial piece. We accepted the referral because we knew that this was our daughter and there was no doubt about it because it was meant to be. We had changed our lifestyles previous to this in the fact we were beginning to adhere to a new budget. We had held very successful fundraisers and we had other opportunities present themselves that if we put forth the effort they would be fruitful. We were within just a couple of months of traveling and we were still short. We were adamant about being debt free with the adoption. We began exploring grants and interest free loans. The problem with the loans were they were still debt. We applied for several grants and had many responses that were all the same. "We would like to help you, but we cannot currently offer you a grant. However we can offer you a interest free loan." We were grateful for their offer but we knew that we were still going to do this debt free. That is when we got the call from Gift of Adoption. They informed us that we had been selected to receive a grant. With this grant we were within $200 of completing our debt free adoption. We know this is not possible for everyone, but it was for us because of the people at Gift of Adoption who care so much about the children and the families that they show their commitment with support financial as well as information for people to complete their families. Thank you Gift of Adoption for showing that you care enough to help us bring our daughter home!

We are so grateful for nonprofits Iike Gift of Adoption! When we began our adoption process we knew that we didn't have the funds to cover the cost. We were quickly matched with a birth mom who was having twin boys in about 4 months from that point! We were ecstatic but also still concerned about where we would get the money needed. The day our boys were born there were immediate life threatening issues that sent both babies to the NICU. One of our sons passed away at 2 days old while our other son continued to fight for his life. Henry, twin A, survived and is now 16 months old and thriving!! Through the generosity of Gift of Adoption we were able to complete our adoption and bring our son home. "Thank you" will never be able to describe how grateful we are for organizations like this one!

We had an adoption happen extremely quickly, leaving us little time to save money. We sought help from Gift of Adoption Fund and were blessed to receive notice that we were chosen as grant recipients. Our experience working with the organization was incredibly positive. We are incredibly grateful to Gift of Adoption Fund for helping us to bring home our son. We have nothing but positive things to say about the organization!

We sought out the help from Gift of Adoption to help raise some much needed funds for the adoption of our Daughter, who was waiting for us in China! They were great to work with, understanding of our timelines and needs as well as willing to help and answer questions whenever they could. The timeline between emails and communication was quick and couldn't have been better. Hope to reach out to them when we go back to get our daughter a sister in a couple years. DuoXie!

We received notice that we received a grant from GOA on the day we returning from China with our newly adopted daughter. This news was both a blessing and relief. We still had unpaid expenses on our credit cards for adoption fees. This grant enabled us to complete our adoption without going into debt. We were pleased with all of our interactions with the GOA staff. They were both helpful and professional. We completed several updates throughout our adoption with GOA, but we didn't mind doing the monthly updates. It let us know that we were being considered, whereas other grant agencies don't even acknowledge receipt of your application. GOA always communicated clearly what the status for our application was. We appreciated that.

We had a super short adoption occur once we were selected by a birth mom. We had 6 days' notice that we would be adopting twins and had to borrow to quickly pay the balance of our fee. With a NICU stay for two babies, the medical costs built up very quickly. Gift of Adoption gave us a generous grant after we brought the twins home and worked with us to pay back what we'd borrowed and the hospital bills, even though the funds didn't go directly to the agency. We were and are so thankful that Gift of Adoption helped us become a family of 4!

We applied for many adoption grants and gift of adoption was the only one we received during both our adoptions. Our initial email got put in to my junk box by accident and they staff was so willing to work with is to get our application reviewed as soon as possible. They were wonderful!!! They went above and beyond to help us find our adoption. We are now home with our two beautiful children and we couldn't be more thankful for the help we recieved along the way!

The Gift of Adoption awards grants regardless of religion, race, age, marital status, or sexual orientation. I'm a single woman, a working professional, without a religious affiliation and so I was limited to what grants I could apply for. I adopted a beautiful baby boy from the Marshall Islands in April. The lodging and stay ended up being much more than previous families had paid and this was an added stress. The GOA grant award notice came just before my court date! It was such a blessing! It allowed me to relax and truly focus on bonding and falling in love with my child. I am truly grateful to the organization and their funders. They are a reminder of the goodness in this world!

I applied to several adoption fund orginazations, but only Gift of Adoption helped. It was such a relief to know we were able to leave when they called because we had the money. THis is our first out of country adoption but fifth adopted child which makes eight for us. Adoption is a wonderful oppurtunity to learn the immense love of the Lord for us. I encourage every family of any size or financial status to adopt, it is life changing and Gift of Adoption helps make dreams of children all over the world come true.

We adopted a sibling group from Haiti...anyone in this situation knows that it can drag on FOREVER and suck your funds (savings, loans, etc.) dry. After 4.5 years, our boys finally home - If GOA wouldn't have provided funding for us, we would have had to abandon our adoption. They worked with us on timelines and made it possible for us to complete our family. God Bless GOA!

We were in the process of adopting a sibling group of four from Poland and were nearing the part of the process where the last of our fees were due. We did not have enough to cover those fees and were scared that if the process was delayed we would lose our referral and that our children would be separated. Gift of Adoption was such a blessing when we needed it the most. The generous grant we received from them covered those remaining expenses and allowed us to move forward. Our children had been available for over two years without a single inquiry and had we not stepped up they would have been sent to other parts of their country to live their lives apart. They had already been separated once as they were the youngest four of ten children. We prayed for help and GOA was the answer we needed!!

The team at GOA was very professional, caring, and responsive. We had our questions answered before being awarded the grant and they walked us through the steps after we had received it.

Once we were home they have followed up with us to make sure everyone is doing well and adjusting into our newly expanded family. We truly do not know what we would have done without them. I hope and pray people continue to donate so that families like ours can continue to care for orphans all around the world.

GOA is generous and amazing. With their help we brought home siblings age 7 & 9 from Ethiopia and have been a thriving new family for one year. This grant was a huge blessing.

GOA is great organization. Great communication, quick turnaround, clear step-by-step instructions. We got approved for the grant, which will cover our travel expenses to Ukraine to finalize adoption of two special need teenage orphan boys. We are so blessed. Praise the Lord!

We brought home our precious 2 teenage daughters from Ethiopia in November of 2013. We received a very last minute court hearing and the airline tickets cost us tripple what we had budgeted. While in country I started filling out the application and were blessed beyond belief when we were accepted for a grant! 2 months later when we were granted our visa's we used this grant to pay for our plane tickets to pick up the girls and bring them home. GOA was very professional and prompt. Words can not express our thankfulness to them!

I cannot say enough good things about GOA. They worked so well with us even after failed adoptions. They are the sweetest, easiest people to work with. Their organization helped bring home our precious baby girl. We are forever thankful!!

My Wife and I tried to adopt for two full years and even had to put the process on hold multiple times because of funding. One of the best parts of gift of adoption is that Sarah and I were not required to practice any particular religion in order to enrich out lives and the lives of our children. The Gift of Adoption grant was the reason we were able to adopt our daughter who is now 10 months old and going to be a bunny for Halloween.

Joseph Webber

We brought our son with special needs home from Bulgaria about a month ago. The wonderful GOA grant we received helped tremendously with travel expenses for the pick-up trip. What a blessing this was to our family! The staff at GOA were compassionate and professional, often getting back to me whenever I had a question within minutes. Our little boy is thriving in our family after almost 5 years of neglect in the orphanage. Our family really can't adequately express our thanks for GOA's assistance with our adoption!

My wife and I were raising the money for our adoption. GOA helped with the final grant that gave us the budget to adopt our little guy! He is now four months old, a happy, healthy baby boy! We are delighted and grateful to GOA for helping to make our dream come true.

We adopted three teenaged boys from Bulgaria. With the cost of adopting multiples, the cost of travel- try flying a family of 7 home from Bulgaria! And all of the other expenses that go along with the process, we are so thankful for the grant awarded to us through Gift of Adoption! Three beautiful, smart, athletic brothers have found a home forever with your help. We cannot express our gratitude adequately. Thanks for what you do.

Claus, Jess, Mikaela, Lilo, Danail, Pia and Vanyo Nielsen

Praise the Lord for GOA and what they are doing to help orphans join their forever families! They were a tremendous blessing to our family in awarding us a generous grant to help in our adoption. So thankful for GOA!

We were blessed to get help with the last of our attorney fees. We have a beautiful little girl now. The process was long and this helped more than you will ever know!

Gift of Adoption Fund helped us bring home our baby boy! Without this amazing organization helping us with our final adoption expenses, the joy of our new addition would have been stressful with worry of where we would come up with those funds. We are so, so thankful for their grant! The staff are courteous and helpful and communication exceeded our expectations.

Our family would be without two miraculous blessings if not for Gift of Adoption! They were wonderful to work with, organized, and generous!

When we got our son, we were so concerned with the remaining balances we owed (the lawyer fees) in order to adopt him. I applied to so many different groups to help us fund our adoption and we got so many sad responses. BUT the day came when we got our letter from Gift of Adoption saying they would give us a grant!!! My husband and I were so happy and blessed. Now thanks greatly to the blessing from Gift of Adoption, we will be finalizing our adoption in 2 months!!! I'm an not sure how we would have made it without their help/blessing.

We knew God was leading us to adopt but we had no idea how to make it happen financially. Gift of Adoption was such a blessing to us, they literally covered the last of our adoption fees so we could begin to make travel plans. We've had our daughter home for about six months now and it still feels a bit surreal. Gift of Adoption staff were friendly, efficient and very encouraging. Thank you so much. I hope you know how big of a blessing you were to my family.

We were days from traveling to meet our son. I had been hoping to hear from gift of God adoption funds but hasn't. I checked my spam box which I don't do very often, it was there I saw they were going to give us grant. Even though we had exceeded the days they had requested for a response they worked with us and have us a grant.

Love that 100 percent of donations go to grants to families. They have a unique way of getting investors to cover the admin costs and salaries associated with the Fund. Smart stuff and such a feel good to know that kids are getting to good homes. Whether you are adopted, an adoptive parent or just believe that kids deserve a family, this is a nonprofit to support!

We received a grant from Gift of Adoption which helped us bring home our daughter. The application process was thorough but smooth and easy in comparison to a few other organizations that we applied with. We received prompt notification when our information was received. When we were selected as finalists, the website was easy to navigate in filling out additional questions. We received notification of the reward in a very timely manner. The email literally came the morning after we brought our daughter home from the hospital, we always say it was the icing on the cake! The disbursement took longer than we expected but overall was an easy and smooth process. The staff was so kind and professional. We feel as if we are deeply cared for by the staff. We would %100 recommend anyone to this wonderful organization.

I am so thankful for the Gift of Adoption Fund. They helped fund my son's adoption with a grant and the notice arrived at just the right time while I was in country struggling with thoughts of payment for our 7+ week trip. They are well-organized and a gift of above :-)

Gift of Adoption Fund helped us with our final payment owed to our Adoption Agency. This allowed us to finalize our Adoption! We are very Blessed to have found this organization :) They have changed our life!

My donations to Gift of Adoption make sure more children are adopted and given a chance to be who they are meant to be. What could be better than that?

Gift of Adoption is an amazing organization. When we were struggling to come up with the last funds needed to bring our older son that is Deaf home from China, Gift of Adoption came through and helped us to bring our son home. The financial aspect of an adoption is a struggle for many and without organizations like Gift of Adoption (of which there are not many) fewer children would be coming home. The ability to help a family that is struggling to come up with those last funds needed is truly a blessing and a gift. Thank you Gift of Adoption for helping children be united with their families! Thank you for helping us bring our Luke home!

As a volunteer and donor, I am always impressed at the heart that Gift of Adoption has for kids and their new families. It is an amazing group of people committed to giving kids a permanent home and ensuring that money isn't in the way. Money is spent so carefully. Need to get high-profile folks to recognize how significant it can be to a child to be adopted.

I am currently a proud National Board Member and my husband is a former Illinois Board Member. I was first introduced to GOA in 2002 shortly after adopting the 1st of my two adopted children. My husband and I had been involved in other wonderful charities over the years, but, the pure mission of GOA was something we were instantly impressed with. We continue 10 years later to be impressed (actually blown away) by the work done by this organization. The leadership is solid, the mission remains simple and intact and the means to achieve the goals set by GOA are clear. The 1000+ children it has helped thus far now have a family, a home and a future. The economic benefit of helping children go to their forever families is readily apparent. The humanitarian effect of completing adoptions will be felt for generations to come.

I was introduced to the Gift of Adoption Fund this year by a dear friend and helped to create the Carolinas Chapter. While I have not adopted, I have a close connection to adoption. I sit on the Board of the Carolinas Chapter and work with the most enthusiastic and caring people. I have been so impressed with this charity and the good that it brings to the lives of so many people who are struggling to adopt. The stories that I hear are so moving and it is so rewarding for me personally that I can in a small way help to bring families together. I am so excited to see the growth and development of the Carolinas Chapter and the formation of chapters in other states. Great work!

I am a fahter of three adopted children and I haved found that working on th eboard for Gift of Adoption allows me to help others fulfill the dreams of n=being parents and choildren finding forever homes. The Gift of Adoption is a wonderful way to help people with like mined goals achieve them togehter and for the circlre of life to be full. My wife and I recevie this beautiful blessing everyday and being called mom and dad is exretmly hearwarming to us. Gidt of Adoption is more than just a financial part of the adoption process it is the ray of hope for many parents and children alike.

As an adoptive momma, Gift of Adoption means a lot to our family, as they helped bring home our two boys. They are an amazing organization that helps fund the remaining costs of adoptions, taking the financial burden off of adoptive parents, allowing them to focus solely on bringing their child/ren home! We love and appreciate GoA who helped change our family's lives forever!

As a donor and board member for the past 9 years, I and my family have been thoroughly blessed through our involvement with Gift of Adoption. While no one person can change the entire world, this mission and organization enables me to help completely change the world for one child and one family at a time. I love having that kind of personal and immediate connection to the mission and impact of this cause.

As an adoption attorney for 30 years, I know first hand the struggles that adoptive families face to finance their adoption goals. Money should not stand in the way of securing a permanent home for a child and Gift of Adoption ensures that is not the case. Gift of Adoption is a phenomenal, grassroots organization with a big heart, low overhead, high accountability and the giver of many blessings. I wholeheartedly endorse the, Jeanne Trudeau Tate

As an adoptive parent, I understand the importance of bringing children into a loving, permanent home. I know the financial burden adoption can bring as well. Gift of Adoption Fund has a simple goal - make adoption more financially viable in order to help unite more children with their forever families. I am proud to be apart of an organization that makes such a difference in so many lives.

As a donor and member of the Finance Committee I am proud of the work that Gift if Adoption does to make a difference in the world bringing children and adoptive parents together to celebrate a new life. I know how significant and life changing adoption has been in the lives of my friends and family. The committment and passion exhibited by the Gift of Adoption Staff and Board Members is inspiring and contagious. Gift of Adoption is a wonderful Non Profit that I am proud to support, now and in the future.

As the mother of 3 adopted children, I learned firsthand that adoption does transform lives - both a child's and a family's. As a board member for Gift of Adoption I am now able to help more children experience the benefits of a loving, forever family. It's so rewarding to see the direct, positive impact that Gift of Adoption has had on the lives of so many children in need.

I was completely taken with The Gift of Adoption Fund at the very first event I attended. Within that same year I became involved on a committee and within two years was serving on the Illinois board, which I continue to serve on today, 9 years later. It is my best work, my most fulfilling work and my passion. My own adopted children delight in the stories I take home to them of uniting children and their forever families. It is a way to showcase to them and model giving back in the most precious and impactful sense.

As a long time donor and board member of the Illinois Chapter of the Gift of Adoption Fund, as well as an adoptive parent, I could not think of a better way to give back to my community than to help break down the financial barriers that prevent willing parents from welcoming children in need into their homes and hearts. I will continue to support this cause and I am proud to be just a small piece of the joyful news that comes with each grant fulfilled.

I am an adoptive parent so I know the emotional and financial burdens involved in the adoption process. Gift of Adoption is a fantastic, well run organization that helps parents with some of that financial burden and because of that gets children to a forever home. Keep up the amazing work GOA!

My wife and I had 4 biological children before we decided to adopt. I can honestly say that I had hesitations in regards to how an adoption would affect us. Based on our faith, we decided to move forward and adopt an international sibling group. A few years later, we brought local child into our home as well. The process was very expensive, but we made it happen. Now, 5 years later, I have been blessed by the beauty of adoption. It was the best decision that we ever made. I helped launch the Charlotte Chapter of Gift of Adoption because I believe every family and child that wants to experience that joy should be able to and financial burdens should not stand in the way!

Gift of Adoption helps to remove the financial barrier that often stands in the way between a loving family and a child who needs a family. We experienced first hand the high cost of adoption and wanted to help others. This wonderful organization gives us that opportunity. I have been a donor for several years and helped start a chapter in the Carolinas. I plan to continue contributing my time, energy and money to this organization and its cause.

I have been volunteering with Gift of Adoption for 10 years, and I'm still as enthusiastic about the organization today as I was when I started. Every time we grant the final funds to close an adoption, I know there's a child that is moving from a situation of desperation into one in which he/she will be loved and cared for unconditionally and permanently, just like my little girl did 11 years ago. I've also been able to work with some of the most interesting, entrepreneurial and passionate people I have ever met, including our staff, our national and chapter boards, and our grantees. Gift of Adoption is a wonderful organization, and I'm proud to list it as my number one charity.

Gift of Adoption is my #1 charitable organization. Why? Because it does such heart-warming work with great determination and passion. It runs on a shoestring because the priority is awarding the grants to support adoptions. And as the families attest, its work transforms lives in profound ways. I'm proud to support Gift of Adoption and wish that more people knew about its great work.

What an amazing organization! Only weeks before bringing our beautiful teen daughter home from China, we found we were short 10,000 dollars... She was ready to age out of adoptable status according to her country guidelines. Postponing our trip was not an option. Gift of Adoption provided us with half of the money needed, exactly when we needed it! Thank you Gift of Adoption for being a major part of saving Arielle from a lifetime of poverty!

I have been involved with many non- profits. Gift of Adoption is fiscally responsible and has a clear mission statement. Because the organization is so well run, it is able to impact many families. I am proud to be associated with Gift of Adoption.

I am proud to be part of an organization where the main purpose is to see children get the chance to grow up in a loving family environment and become part of a permanent family. Gift of Adoption inspires adoptions and makes adoptions possible by providing grants to families that need the support to bring their child home.

Gift of Adoption helped make our domestic infant adoption possible. We had very little time to raise the money on our own -- just 8 weeks from when we submitted our application and the birth of our son. Gift of Adoption considered our grant application right away---no waiting 6 months until the next board meeting. They dispersed the funds quickly, too. All throughout the process, the staff at GOA were friendly, personable, and professional. I tell everyone I know who is adopting to apply for a grant through GOA. They made a big difference in our life--and our son's life. Thanks!