Business Support for Foster Care, Adoption, and Kinship Care
The Alliance helps business leaders understand the foster care crisis, discover where their company can serve, and take one practical next step that fits what they already do.
The Need Is Closer Than Most People Realize
Families across San Antonio and South Texas face pressure before, during, and after foster care. Sometimes the need is practical. A car repair. A tutoring gap. A meal. A gift card. A first job.
For a family under pressure, one practical need can become the thing that helps them keep going.
Practical Help Can Open a Door
When Juan was fighting to reunite with his little brother, practical needs could have become barriers.
Local businesses helped with things like car repairs, rent, and Christmas gifts.
Church partners carried the relationship around him.
Tangible help opened the door for deeper support, belonging, faith, and hope.
You do not have to guess where your business fits. Most businesses begin with something they already have: a trade, a service, a job opportunity, everyday goods, or a team willing to serve.
Some businesses serve together through group projects, event support, Caseworker Kits, or practical needs that can be completed as a team. Kathy can help you explore what is currently available.
Not sure which one fits your business? That is what the first conversation is for.
Real Support, Right on Time
LaShaude James wanted to help children and families impacted by foster care, but his family was not in a season to foster.
Through the Alliance, he saw that his business could still serve.
Tutoring was not extra for Mathnasium. It was the work his team already did every day.
So he used what he had already built to support children who needed help.
Businesses in the Alliance
You are not the first business leader to wonder whether this could fit your company.
Across San Antonio and South Texas, businesses are already serving through the Alliance in practical, meaningful ways. Some sponsor events. Some donate services. Some help meet tangible needs for families. Some support mentor relationships, caseworkers, caregivers, or seasonal opportunities.
Our Community Engagement Specialist will:
- Get to know you and your business.
- Identify strategic pieces that uniquely fit your business, team and passions
- Provide company-wide vision casting and any training or connections needed to start serving children and families.
Through sponsorships, donated services, practical support, mentor opportunities, events, and seasonal needs, each business brings something different to strengthen the network of care around children and families in our community.
We are grateful for the businesses helping strengthen families in our community. Visit their websites to learn more about their work and support them when you can.
When you reach out, you are not being handed off to a generic inbox.
You are connecting with Kathy Osborne, the Alliance’s Community Engagement Specialist. Kathy helps business leaders understand the opportunities available and identify a practical next step that fits their company. Use this form to connect.
Step 1: Tell Us About Your Business
Share what your business does, what your team is like, and what kind of support you are open to exploring.
Step 2: Kathy Helps You Identify Options
Kathy will suggest a few practical ways your business could help. Some may involve services. Some may involve goods. Some may involve sponsorship or support for an upcoming need.
Step 3: You Choose What Fits
There is no pressure to say yes to everything. You choose the opportunity that fits your business, your team, and your capacity.
Kathy Osborne, our Community Engagement Specialist, will follow up within 48 hours to set up a short conversation. She will ask about your business, your team, and what you care about, then suggest a few options that fit. There is no obligation attached to that conversation.
The Alliance is relational, so we will stay in touch and share future opportunities. You are always free to say yes, no, or not right now. We can also ask how often you would like to hear from us.
That depends entirely on what you decide to do. Some businesses give annually or monthly. Others donate a service they already provide and spend nothing extra. We will not put a number in front of you before we understand your company.
It depends on what you choose. A repair might take one person one afternoon. Donating a service you already provide may take very little additional time. Hiring an intern or offering a job opportunity is a larger commitment, and we will say that clearly before you agree to it.
No. The Alliance is a Christian organization, and our faith shapes why we do this work. It does not determine who we work with, and companies of every kind can partner with us.
No. Business engagement does not involve direct contact with children. Your team works with goods, services, and support for the adults caring for those children.
One real example is a business donating restaurant gift cards so mentors could take young adults aging out of foster care to dinner. That is a complete contribution. It is small, finishable, and meaningful.
No. Some of the most useful things businesses do take one person, one afternoon, or one practical contribution. If you have a trade, a service, a few gift cards, or a willingness to ask what is needed, your business has a place.
