Fostering Hope. Changing Lives.

At Fostering Hope, we exist to support foster children and families through practical care, meaningful programs, and a community that shows up when it matters most.

What started as a simple way to meet immediate needs has grown into a network of support reaching families across Oklahoma. Through Bags of Hope, To-Go Birthday Parties, the Hope House, and our Teen Board, we provide essentials, encouragement, and connection—meeting kids where they are and walking alongside them with dignity and compassion.

Every program is designed with one goal in mind: to foster hope in real, tangible ways for children and families navigating foster care.

Whether you’re looking to volunteer, give, or learn more about how we serve, there’s a place for you here.

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Planting Seeds of Hope

Support Fostering Hope with every shirt.

We’ve partnered with a local creator to launch a special shirt campaign: Planting Seeds of Hope. Not only do these tees spread a message of love and resilience, but every purchase directly supports the mission of Fostering Hope.

From diapers and birthday gifts to Bags of Hope and housing support, your shirt helps us continue planting hope in the lives of children and families across Oklahoma.

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Our Programs

Fostering hope house

Through the Fostering Hope House, children no longer wait in DHS offices or police stations, but instead are welcomed into a comforting environment while awaiting placement with their worker. Included in this space is a bathroom equipped with a tub for bubble baths, a stocked kitchen, a living room with books and toys set up for all ages, and volunteers ready and waiting. This in-between safe space helps lessen trauma and gives children the chance to just be a kid.

To- Go Birthday Party

Our mission is to celebrate the pure magic of a child’s birthday and spread happiness along with it. Our To-Go birthdays include wrapped age-appropriate new birthday gifts, birthday cake, and birthday party supplies, an outfit, a pair of shoes, and a stuffed animal.

#Bag Full of Hope

When a child is removed from home, they often leave with little to nothing — sometimes carrying their belongings in a trash bag. Fostering Hope is working to end the term “trash bag kids” by providing every child with a duffel bag, backpack, or diaper bag filled with new and gently used clothing, pajamas, shoes, new socks and underwear, toiletries, a Bible, a book, a toy or game, and a handwritten card — so every child knows they matter.

TEEN BOARD AMBASSADORS

The Fostering Hope Teen Board represents outstanding students from local high schools who are passionate about serving and helping children in the foster care system. Students who participate in our Teen Board will participate in leadership training, fundraising events, and volunteer service hours while learning meaningful life lessons, too.

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Thank you to our Teen Board for giving insight into our impact.

We support children from 57 counties and growing throughout Oklahoma.

Our Mission

Fostering Hope is a nonprofit organization founded by Oklahoma citizens with a desire to aid children in foster care.
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Our Impact

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When a foster or kinship family opens their home to a child, the state stipend intended to meet the child’s basic needs can take anywhere from 2 weeks to 2 months to arrive.

In the meantime, many foster children arrive with only a trash bag containing what little they were able to gather when removed from their homes. Clothing, favorite toys, books, and even treasured keepsakes are often left behind—sometimes forever.

At Fostering Hope, our goal is to bridge the gap between a child’s placement and the arrival of the state stipend. Each child from any county in Oklahoma receives new and gently used clothing, age-appropriate toiletries, new underwear, and socks. Through partnerships with our community and the state, we work to replace the term “trash bag kids” with dignity, care, and hope. These children are valued and validated—because they truly are.

With your support, we have served 57 counties and thousands of children since 2016!

3,644

Bags full of hope given to children

8,962

Shoes

112,708

Bottles

120,000+

Diapers

709

to-Go Birthdays

700

served at FH House

2,664

Volunteers

57

Oklahoma Counties served

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Our Mission

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore must be the storm -
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm -

I’ve heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me.

Emily Dickinson

Teen Ambassador Board making art piece for 5th birthday auction

Diapers for foster kids - foster kid donations - oklahoma fostering

Fostering Hope House - Respite center for oklahoma foster kids

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We believe every foster child deserves hope and to have their immediate needs met. With the help of our community and Oklahoma, we can do just that. Our goal is to ensure children are no longer referred to as Trash Bag Kids. Fostering Hope empowers children who have previously felt powerless.

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Read more about the heart and faces behind Fostering Hope, and how your support has impacted foster kids through testimonials from foster mom’s and dad’s.

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For those of you that want to do more, we are always looking for volunteers or new ideas on how we can serve foster children in need! Please reach out to us!

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Your donation helps Fostering Hope & Fostering Hope House operate and serve those most vulnerable - our foster children. With your donation, we are able to help each child feel valued and validated.

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