Borrowed Hearts Foundation

06/08/2026

🌟 Looking for a meaningful way to connect with your community?

💲Sponsor a carnival game booth or item drive at our annual Back to School Bash and help children in foster care head back to school ready to shine!

📚Shop our Amazon Wishlist to donate the most-needed back-to-school items for kids in foster care.
🛒 Amazon Wishlist — https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/OMBVU94CJ7PA?ref_=wl_share

Since 2016, Borrowed Hearts has hosted an end-of-summer celebration where foster kids can play games, enjoy treats, and stock up on school supplies, uniforms, and other essentials.

We even offer FREE haircuts so every child can walk into the new school year looking and feeling their absolute best! ✂️💫

Want in? Email us at [email protected] to learn how to get involved!

06/04/2026

☀️ Summer's Just starting — but we're already planning something BIG!

Registration is officially OPEN for our annual BACK TO SCHOOL BASH!

This event is for families with foster children or kinship placements. Borrowed Hearts, together with our amazing event sponsors, will be providing school supplies, backpacks, uniforms, and a whole lot of end-of-summer fun before the school year kicks off!

Families must register by July 22nd to attend — don't wait!
Register Here: https://forms.gle/ZGYVRGiqvr2bHqNe8

We're still looking for Event Sponsors!
Interested? Reach out at [email protected] 💌

06/03/2026

Foster Parent Support Night is Next MONDAY!

Sign Up Here!

6:00pm-7:30pm The Hills Church, 5025 Constellation Ave, Evansville, IN 47715

05/30/2026

YARD SALE FOR BORROWED HEARTS

Plants are Black Tropicana, Cannas, Elephant ears, Black-eyed Susan, Wandering Dudes’, Pothos, Aloe Vera, cactus, Variegated Spider, Baby Jade, succulents, variegated Ficus, Dracaena and more.

Thank you for your support of Borrowed Hearts.

Friday and Saturday, May 29 and 30th, 2026, 7:30 AM to 5 pm

Whetstone Road, N of 57 near EVV Airport. Signs posted with yard sale signs on 57.

05/22/2026

Closed through Monday in observance of Memorial Day. We open again Tuesday 1-4pm

05/14/2026

Thank you Evansville Farmers Market ❤️❤️❤️

Fostering a child changes lives by providing a secure, nurturing environment that offers stability, healing, and unconditional love to youth, often reversing the effects of trauma and fostering resilience. It transforms the lives of foster parents by fostering empathy, deepening family bonds, and providing profound personal fulfillment.

💙 Impact on the Child's Life 💙

🩵 Safety and Stability: 🩵
Children from unstable backgrounds are provided with a safe haven, enabling them to form healthy attachments and feel secure.
🩵 Emotional and Physical Healing: 🩵
Through care, trauma-informed support, and love, children can learn to manage stress, overcoming PTSD and other emotional challenges.
🩵 Long-Term Future: 🩵
Fostering improves educational opportunities and life skills, directly contributing to better adult outcomes, such as independence and success.
🩵 A "Normal" Childhood: 🩵
It allows children to experience the security of a family, letting them focus on growing up rather than simply surviving.

💙 Impact on the Foster Parent's Life 💙

🩵 Shifting Perspectives: 🩵
Foster parents often report a shift in focus, learning to prioritize empathy and patience over materialistic concerns.
🩵 Developing New Strengths: 🩵
Fostering teaches new skills in navigating behavioral challenges and dealing with complex social systems.
🩵 Unconditional Love and Purpose: 🩵
The experience provides a deep sense of purpose by providing a lifeline to a child, reinforcing that family is built on love rather than just blood ties.
🩵 Expanding Family Dynamics: 🩵
It teaches biological children in the home empathy and how to embrace diversity, reinforcing that not all families look the same.

💙 How Fostering Works to Change Lives 💙

🩵 Building Trust: 🩵
Caregivers take time to build trust, demonstrating consistency to children who have rarely experienced it.
🩵 Breaking the Cycle: 🩵
By providing a nurturing environment, foster parents directly break cycles of abuse or neglect.
🩵 Advocacy: 🩵

Another way you can help, right here in the tri-state is by donating fiscally; your time volunteering; donating new/ gently used items and more to places like:
Borrowed Hearts Foundation &/or
Vanderburgh County CASA

Foster parents become fierce advocates for a child's needs within school, medical, and social systems.

05/14/2026

A beautiful opportunity for our kiddos made possible through the work of The Isaiah 1:17 Project and Toyota. Registration is required.

May is National Bicycle Safety Awareness Month and Foster Care Awareness Month.

We are proud to partner with Toyota Indiana to bring Dream Cycles to our community. This program was created to give children impacted by kinship and foster care something many have never experienced—ownership, independence, and confidence.

During Dream Cycles, youth build their own bicycles alongside volunteers and community partners, creating a meaningful moment of accomplishment and belonging.

This opportunity is available for families currently caring for children impacted by foster or kinship care, and also serves all children in the home.

Families can apply using the registration link or by scanning the QR code.

Join us on June 6 at the Toyota Indiana Experience Center.

05/14/2026

Thanks to our friends at Evansville Farmers Market and to our caring neighbors through the region!❤️❤️❤️

Fostering a child changes lives by providing a secure, nurturing environment that offers stability, healing, and unconditional love to youth, often reversing the effects of trauma and fostering resilience. It transforms the lives of foster parents by fostering empathy, deepening family bonds, and providing profound personal fulfillment.

💙 Impact on the Child's Life 💙

🩵 Safety and Stability: 🩵
Children from unstable backgrounds are provided with a safe haven, enabling them to form healthy attachments and feel secure.
🩵 Emotional and Physical Healing: 🩵
Through care, trauma-informed support, and love, children can learn to manage stress, overcoming PTSD and other emotional challenges.
🩵 Long-Term Future: 🩵
Fostering improves educational opportunities and life skills, directly contributing to better adult outcomes, such as independence and success.
🩵 A "Normal" Childhood: 🩵
It allows children to experience the security of a family, letting them focus on growing up rather than simply surviving.

💙 Impact on the Foster Parent's Life 💙

🩵 Shifting Perspectives: 🩵
Foster parents often report a shift in focus, learning to prioritize empathy and patience over materialistic concerns.
🩵 Developing New Strengths: 🩵
Fostering teaches new skills in navigating behavioral challenges and dealing with complex social systems.
🩵 Unconditional Love and Purpose: 🩵
The experience provides a deep sense of purpose by providing a lifeline to a child, reinforcing that family is built on love rather than just blood ties.
🩵 Expanding Family Dynamics: 🩵
It teaches biological children in the home empathy and how to embrace diversity, reinforcing that not all families look the same.

💙 How Fostering Works to Change Lives 💙

🩵 Building Trust: 🩵
Caregivers take time to build trust, demonstrating consistency to children who have rarely experienced it.
🩵 Breaking the Cycle: 🩵
By providing a nurturing environment, foster parents directly break cycles of abuse or neglect.
🩵 Advocacy: 🩵

Another way you can help, right here in the tri-state is by donating fiscally; your time volunteering; donating new/ gently used items and more to places like:
Borrowed Hearts Foundation &/or
Vanderburgh County CASA

Foster parents become fierce advocates for a child's needs within school, medical, and social systems.

05/06/2026

May Foster Parent Support Group
Monday May 11th
6:00PM-7:30PM
5025 Constallation Ave Evansville, IN
Speaker: Hope Staubitz with Center for Pediatric Therapy
Please RSVP below
https://forms.gle/ZYBj4aFLy9HvE2pS9

We hope you join us!!

6:00pm-7:30pm The Hills Church, 5025 Constellation Ave, Evansville, IN 47715

04/10/2026

🎤Tune in, 🔊turn it up, and come hang out with us in the morning!

We’ll be live at 7:30 AM for the 104FM WIKY Extortion Breakfast, talking all things Borrowed Hearts! 🩷🩵