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Our Strategy

Foster America’s 2023-2026 strategic plan will accelerate and amplify our impact.

Our new strategy integrates lessons gathered across six fellowship cohorts. It also represents our response to an unprecedented opportunity for systemic change in service of children, families, and communities, and in pursuit of a more just, equitable world.

Co-design
Learn
Collaborate
Finance
Equity

Co-design

We center the perspectives of parents, young people, and community leaders to put their vision at the heart of new solutions.

Learn

We ensure qualitative and quantitative data informs decisions, fuels continuous improvement, and promotes accountability.

Collaborate

We coordinate with governmental partners, nonprofits, civic and corporate leaders, to break down barriers and align efforts to support families effectively.

Finance

We help identify funding opportunities for programs that proactively offer the types of support families need and want – an alternative to harmful and costly traditional child welfare approaches.

Co-design
We center the perspectives of parents, young people, and community leaders to put their vision at the heart of new solutions.
Collaborate
We coordinate with governmental partners, nonprofits, civic and corporate leaders, to break down barriers and align efforts to support families effectively
Finance
We help identify funding opportunities for programs that proactively offer the types of support families need and want – an alternative to harmful and costly traditional child welfare approaches.
Learn
We ensure qualitative and quantitative data informs decisions, fuels continuous improvement, and promotes accountability.

Mission & History

Our mission: Together with communities, Foster America transforms systems that serve children, youth, and families by innovating for a more just, equitable future.

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