Forever Homes for Foster Kids
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our greatest need is to increase corporate sponsorship. Individual donations are increasing and steady, but corporations have the ability to provide funding as well as in-kind donations that will allow our non-profit to take on many more immigrant and U.S. foster children cases each year.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Family finding
Forever Homes for Foster Kids specializes in performing family finding for U.S. agencies seeking to locate the biological relatives of immigrant and foster children. Family Finding is the process of identifying, locating and notifying adult family members. This ensures that where possible, each child has at the very least a connection with their blood relatives. In the best of cases, relatives are found who will take in the child and give him/her a permanent, stable home.
Where we work
Awards
California Hero 2018
California State Senate
External reviews

Videos
Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of children in foster care who have stable placements
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Age groups
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Our nonprofit works to locate relatives of foster and immigrant children for the most desperate cases often requiring long-term effort to have success. Numbers are a general metric, not an absolute.
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Our non-profit wants to be able to take on 750-1000 cases per year where we will locate relatives of immigrant and U.S. foster children. By doing so, these children in most cases will leave the foster care system and be back with their families. When a child cannot safely be returned to their family, our service opens the way for an adoption to move forward or to be completed.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Our strategy for 2022-2023 is to:
* Engage corporations that have a family-focus
* Continue to expand our part-time staff and begin bringing in full-time staff. While we may work with volunteers, our growth will require permanent staff.
* Expand our reach to include influencing laws so that more and better oversight is in place to ensure that each child has a thorough family finding executed on their behalf.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Our nonprofit is the leading international organization that specializes in reuniting foster and immigrant children with their families living in Latin America.
Our organization has a large and growing social media presence. In 2017, we reach nearly 1.5 million people. In 2018 and 2019, we reached roughly a million people. In 2021, we reached more than 11 million people on Facebook alone. At this time we have a following of roughly 70,000 on social media. We are effective in getting in front of the media. Our founder was a columnist with Foster Focus Magazine and has been featured on CNN International, Univision, AP News, ABC TV, Costco Connections, Washington Post, and EFE, the world’s largest Spanish language media company.
The organization is engaged with experts who are guiding us on best practices to engage corporations. Our organization is managed by professionals who have decades of experience working with staff and taking an organization and business to the next level of success.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Since the beginning of 2021, we have worked to maintain the same level of giving as we had in 2020. We spent considerable time putting together a process where all donors now receive information about how their gift is used. We have donors who have made multiple gifts, and we intend to develop relations to increase this continuous giving by 20% by the end of 2021.
Our social media following has grown to roughly 70,000 as of March 2022. We have successfully worked cases in the Caribbean and Central America. We are handling multiple foster and immigrant child cases in Central America, maintaining our dominance as the only non-profit that specializes in family finding throughout Latin America.
With nearly 30 years of experience, we anticipate being able to bring in more counties and take on their cases so that we can continue to make a life-changing impact on the lives of immigrant and foster children who have parents and relatives living in in Latin America.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We act on the feedback we receive, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback, We ask the people who gave us feedback how well they think we responded
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback, It is difficult to get honest feedback from the people we serve
Financials
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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Forever Homes for Foster Kids
Board of directorsas of 03/06/2023
Richard Villasana
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
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CEO oversight
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Ethics and transparency
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Board composition
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Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Not applicable
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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Equity strategies
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- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.