About Foster Care Help Inc.

Items can be dropped off at our Miami Valley Donation Center located in Brookville, Ohio.  We may be able to pick up items from you if the donation makes sense for us to pickup.  Please understand that paid labor, and volunteer labor both cost money, and moving trucks at 8mpg also costs money that is very important to manage properly on our end.  We cannot spend 1-2 hours labor and $20 in fuel to pick up $20 of donated items.  As much as we would like to be able to provide pick up service,  more often than not, the money we would spend picking up items can be better utilized by our organization in other areas typically, and it is important to us to make every single dollar go directly to those we need to care for directly.    

We understand there is a great need for resources in the community in areas outside of the Foster Care Community.  Our primary mission is to support those in Foster Care but we do donate items to others in need locally when we can, but only when there is an abundance of items so that those in the Foster Care Community do not go without.  Again, our goal is that no child is turned down for placement due to a fostering home not having adequate resources to accept the child into their home,  and unfortunately we are not large enough of an operation to support everyone, but will when we are able.  

Foster Care Help has been financially funded with seed money yearly since 2023 from Richard and Ashlee Davidson the ownership of Driven Enterprises Inc.  

We do not want cash donations unless that is the only possible way for you to support our organization.

We prefer that you buy items to donate, we ask this because we want 100%  Full Transparency within our organization, and donating items that can easily be entered into our donation system are always fully accounted for, cash and monetary donations create another set of complications and we would like to keep our operation as streamlined and efficient as possible.

We always VOLUNTEER for charitable organization audits that other organizations try to avoid,  and always invite the public into any audits so they know their donations to Foster Care Help are going directly to those in need.   These audits can only make us a better, more efficient operation which in the end allows us to do more of what we truly love doing in caring for the Foster Care Community. 

All donated items are sorted, cleaned, sanitized and then placed into Avah's Closet which is the online store Foster Parents can shop from and lists ALL donated items for them to choose from FREE of CHARGE.  We do sell items to the public at times to raise money for items we need and do not have, and also donate items to other Charitable Organizations that we know utilize them properly.  

We also donate to the general public that are not involved in Foster Care when we hear of sudden needs, house fires, medical and life events can turn a family upside down quickly, we may not always be able to help outside of the Foster Care Community, but when we can we surely do.

Fill Out Our Online Request For Assistance Form and please allow a few days for us to process it.  If you are in URGENT NEED please call the office and leave us a message, we will call you back as quickly as we can.  

All request for FREE ITEMS require us to verify that you have an active Ohio Foster Care License, and that you are or will soon have a Foster Child placement in your home. 

If we cannot verify this information we may not be able to help, in years past we have had many attempts to take advantage of us and our charity, it is our responsibility to always ensure that donated items are going to those in the Foster Care Community.

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