Help a Child in Foster Care Founded in 2010, iFoster is the largest national nonprofit serving children and youth in the child welfare system and those aging out. Our mission is to ensure that every child growing up outside of their biological home has the resources and opportunities they need to become successful, independent adults. Your donation will help fund: School supplies Glasses Clothing Enrichment activities Emergency basic needs (food, rent, utilities) Tutoring Job skills training Technology (laptops, cell phones) Mental health therapy Our Project Spotlight: Remade in America (details below) And much more! Project Spotlight: Remade in America Remade in America , a For-Us-By-Us recycling program, is helping solve both an environmental and child welfare crisis with one initiative. Environmental Crisis The US generates 16.9 million tons of textiles waste each year. 95% of textiles could be recycled, but only 15% are. CA SB707 will change this, necessitating that companies seek out means to recycle, driving a recycling revolution. Child Welfare Crisis The average American family spends $1,202 per month on their children aged 0 to 17 (not including healthcare). The average foster family receives ~$500 per month to take care of foster children in their care. Kinship families raising children without foster care stipends receive ~$240 per month through TANF (88% of kinship caregivers raise children outside of the child welfare system). Recent government benefit changes and cuts make this disparity worse. Clothing is the #1 concrete good need of families impacted by the child welfare system. If this need nationally could be filled by recycling California’s discarded clothes, the impact every year would be significant: 250,000 tons of clothing diverted from landfills, Representing 20% of California’s textile waste, Closing the foster and kinship family resource gap by $10.5 billion. The Solution? Remade in America Will: Divert unsold and returned clothing from landfills by sorting items for reuse, repair, and recycling at iFoster’s UsCycle Center. Convert repaired and like-new items into free clothing kits that provide complete outfits for children and youth in foster care. Recycle any non-reusable clothing into fiber fill for iFoster Comfies, which will be added into every clothing kit. Train foster youth in circular economy-focused entrepreneurship, digital marketing, and supply chain logistics through paid internships and apprenticeships. Investment is needed for start-up costs of the warehouse rental, equipment purchases, and initial staffing. iFoster is raising $1 million, with $500,000 already committed.