Team Up With an Organization
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Collect Prom Dresses
Collect prom dresses so girls in foster care can have a beautiful dress on the night of their special dance.
Becca’s Closet was started in memory of Rebecca Kirtman, a young woman who collected 250 dresses for girls in need during the spring of her sophomore year of high school. She died a few months later in a car crash.
Note that one of the requirements for starting a Becca’s Closest chapter is that it must be student-led and have a connection with a school, church or other nonprofit organization.
Host an Event
Rally coworkers, fellow club members, neighbors or family to work on a team building project to benefit foster children. Together We Rise, a nonprofit organization that is active in all 50 states, has several projects for teams to work on.
Children often enter foster care with nothing more than a black garbage bag containing a few hastily grabbed items. One of the organization’s projects is decorating duffel bags, which social workers can give to children in place of a bag. Each one is filled with a tooth brush and other toiletries, a blanket and a teddy bear.
Other projects to choose from are building bikes and skateboards for children who may have never had one or packing super hero boxes– complete with a cape and mask for “foster heroes.”
The projects help fulfill the nonprofit’s mission, which is to “transform the way children experience foster care.”
Become a Foster Grandparent
Those 55 and older can become a foster grandparent with the Senior Corps, Volunteers go into schools and other youth centers in a community and help at risk children. They help children learn to read, mentor teenage parents and work with disabled children. They also work with children who are in foster care.
Donate a Laptop
Every student can benefit from owning a laptop, but students aging out of foster care and leaving for college do not have the money to buy one. All money donated to the One Laptop Per Youth program goes toward buying computers.
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