Deadline: 30-Jun-23
The Show Hope is pleased to announce a call for applications for the Adoption Aid Grant.
Funding Information
- Show Hope grants range between $6,000 and $10,000.
When are grants awarded?
- A minimum of 90 days past the deadline for each period is required for the review of Adoption Aid grant applications.
Eligibility Criteria
- You must be in process using an agency that is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization licensed to place children for adoption. Please note: Your placement agency may differ from your home study provider.
- If you are working through an adoption consultant, you cannot apply for a grant until you have finalized your placement agency. In addition, consulting fees will not be considered as part of the total adoption costs.
- Show Hope is not able to award grants to families unless, at least ,one parent is a U.S. citizen. Please keep in mind that your agency must be a licensed U.S. adoption agency and have a 501(c)(3) certification.
- Show Hope considers both domestic and international adoptions. Show Hope has provided grants to families adopting from the U.S. and numerous countries. For international adoptions, you must be pursuing adoption from a country that is party to The Hague Adoption Convention.
- Before applying, you must be working with a licensed, child-placing agency that is a 501(c)(3) organization, and you must have a completed, approved, and/or updated home study. Please note that your placing agency may differ from your home study provider.
- Show Hope is not able to award grants to families unless, at least ,one parent is a U.S. citizen. Please keep in mind that your agency must be a licensed U.S. adoption agency and have a 501(c)(3) certification.
Ineligible
- Applications cannot be submitted for:
- Independent adoptions through lawyers, facilitators, or humanitarian organizations licensed to place children
- Adoptions through foster care
- Private family adoptions
- Embryo adoptions
- Adoptions from non-Hague Convention countries (Click here for more information)
- Adoptions through for-profit adoption agencies
- Adoptions for which placement has occurred
- Adoptions for which an application has already been submitted.
For more information, visit Adoption Aid Grant.