One ARK Foundation

06/04/2024

The compassionate and giving hearts were abundant last week! Look at all the food donations that were dropped off at Cheesecake Cutie . This doesn't even include the 3 full bags of frozen & refrigerated foods! These will be distributed out today to local Foster Families!

Thank you so much for your kindness and willing to help!
This is what our organization is about...
One Act of Random Kindness!

05/02/2024

Do you have any unopened food (refrigerator/frozen), cleaning supplies or toiletries and not sure what to do with it?

Please consider donating them to our foundation. We work with local agencies to find Foster, Adoptive & Single Parent Families that could use a little bit of extra support.

Drop your donation off at
Cheesecake Cutie during their business hours.
Monday, Friday & Saturdays 6am-8pm
Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursdays 6am-3pm
3324 E. Bay Drive (next to Ace)

Any donation is helpful and so appreciated!

04/20/2024

Our first support from our "Kindness Matters" Fundraising event was being able to purchase a Saxophone for a 14-year old girl for one of the families we have been supporting.

How exciting this was to present this to her! She was so excited and so proud to bring this to her school for band!

Such a wonderful feeling this was for Kane and I to see! To help this family out has been so special!

Each of you helped make this happen! Thank you!!!

04/16/2024

We want to thank all of those who have donated their left over food to us. We have been able to provide 15 bags of food to different Foster Families within Bradenton!

It really makes us so happy when we see bags of food come through the doors on a Friday and Saturday!

Thank you so very much!

03/15/2024

Happy Friday! We are 1 week away from our Kindness Matters Extravaganza! Have you purchased your tickets?

We are excited that we have been told about an amazing website used for Non-Profits called Zeffy!

All donations and ticket purchases can be made at this site and 100% of the proceeds go towards the One ARK Foundation mission.

If you haven't purchased your tickets yet, please do! Slicker's Eatery Kiwi Style Fish and Chips & Cheesecake Cutie will be providing the food for the evening.

A man of more compassion of anyone I have ever met, Mr. Bob Slicker will be the Auctioneer and speaking of his personal connection of Foster Care, a Sarasota Pastor/Foster Parent and Kane & Jennifer owners/current foster parents will all be speaking during the evening.

Mike Sales will once again be providing our LIVE Music. If you know of Mike, you know it will be a great evening!

Please consider stopping in during the evening and supporting our mission to help support and provide resources to Foster, Adoptive & Single Families!

Here is more information ...

02/29/2024

Thank you so much to our Event Sponsor
Solid Rock Construction Group!

We are truly blessed to partner with such an amazing company! They share a passion for giving back to young adults, children with the system and a strong faith foundation!

02/24/2024

Thank you so much for your sponsorship. We are one step closer to supporting another family's needs this year!

02/22/2024

Thank you to Freckled Fin Irish Pub for being our 1st Table Sponsor for our Kindness Matters event on March 21st.

Please mark you calendars to attend this wonderful evening of community gathering and opening hearts to help support local Foster/Adoptive Families, Single Parents, Foster Children & Biological Children.

02/16/2024

Please considering donating to help local Foster Families, Adoptive or Single Parents!

01/04/2024

Founders Kane & Jennifer Geils, have been Foster Parents for the last 6 years. Starting with their niece and nephew in Orlando, they moved to Bradenton to open their café business. While taking a break from fostering the calling for them to enter back into it was there. Becoming fully state licensed, they began the journey again. Moving to a Foster Care property in Sarasota with their 2 biological, they welcomed 3 sisters, ages 2, 6 & 7.

Those girls reunified with family 8 months later.

In April, at the request of Kane & Jennifer, these 2 sisters became a part of their family. Moving off of the Sarasota campus and back to their home in Bradenton they began the process of becoming 1 family unit.

This foundation has been started by them in hopes to make a difference is the Foster Care system and to directly help Foster & Adoptive Parents, Foster & Biological Children, & Single Parents.
These families get lost in the system and it is sad.

Foster Children lack life skills, at times education, proper social skills, most do not have a faith foundation and there are so many Foster Children that just get lost along the way.

Bio-Children are unique and special in their own ways, but they do need skills and training. They are accepting of new children in their home, sharing their parents, learning to understand why the Foster Children are not being raised the same as they were and then teaching them to be grateful and thankful to God that they were raised by present parents.

Foster Parents need the support, they need to feel that they ARE being listened to, that maybe their child will NOT have to wait months on end for that support, to have resources readily available for them and a place to go just to know that their feelings are what others feel as well.

Single Parents we know how hard they work and how they have to be rocks on the outside, but are at times in turmoil inside. They have to be both parents, good cop and bad cop, sacrifice their needs to meet those of their child(ren).

They have a dream that One ARK Foundation can provide support to individuals in a timely manner and meet the needs of families.

Being a Foster Parent is HARD work! It is having a heart to want to provide for others and a sense of faith unlike they have ever seen.