My Nonprofit Reviews

My husband and I have been sponsoring through CFCA/UNBOUND for 20 years. I have read several of the other stories here and I have not had any bad experiences with UNBOUND. The reason we sponsor is to help families that are in need an especially to assist children in other countries get an education.
I am still very excited to get the yearly pictures and the frequent letters of the kids we sponsor. I think it depends on where your sponsored child lives and the age of your sponsored child to determine how many letters you get from them every year.
We usually sponsor 4 to 5 children all the time and have because I can't turn down a situation of a child where one of the parents has died or 1 of the parents has moved away and is not supporting the family. Those are the situations I look for and want to sponsor that child.
I have sponsored one older lady and she was a delight. She has since passes away, but, she would write to me and tell me how she had breakfast at her church with other sponsored older people and how she enjoyed what things my sponsorship provided for her.
One time I had a family write that they had received a goat because of my sponsorship. Little thing mean a lot to people.
I have a big frame in my home with current sponsored children's picture. They pray for me and I pray for them.
I've helped several get through the 'university ' as they call it.
I would never trade my extraordinary experiences that I've had from sponsoring UNBOUND children. NEVER.

This agency is great. They are court appointed by the Judge in the court system to cases of children that have been removed from their homes by SRS b/c their parents were neglectful or abusive to them.
These highly trained volunteers are then appointed to the children's case to monitor how the parents are doing to get their children back into their home; make sure that all court orders are being followed; make sure that the child is in a safe foster home, & much more.

There is an opportunity for these volunteers to become friends, mentors and advisors to the children throughout the life of the case which could be over 1 year of out of home services. They also monitor how the child is doing in school. They can observe the visits between parents and children as the case progresses. Everything is then written down in a court report that is overviewed by the volunteers supervisor. A final draft is then sent to the Judge and all parties on the case. The volunteer and supervisors do appear at the hearings for the case.
These volunteers can be a real support system to a child that has been let down by a neglectful parent. Traditionally foster care agency workers move around a lot, leave a case after a child gets use to them. Here is an opportunity for the volunteer to be the one 'constant' on a childs case. The one person that remains during the entire life of the case. The person that has been there for the child the whole life of the case. They are for the Child!

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