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09/01/2023

05/21/2023

05/15/2023

STEVE JOBS
Steve Jobs was one of the most successful businessmen to ever live. He created Apple Computers, was fired from it, saw it wane during his absence in the 1990s, started Pixar Animation in the meantime, and then was rehired to Apple and turned it around into one of the largest companies in the world. The iPod, iPhone, and iPad are all his brainchildren.
Jobs’ mother gave him up when he was born in San Francisco in 1954. He spent his foster experience with his soon-to-be parents until they could adopt him.

05/14/2023

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!
To all the beautiful women that :someone calls “mom”!

05/08/2023

Tiffany Haddish
Tiffany Haddish is an American comedian and actress who also experienced foster care. She currently stars in the comedy "The Carmichael Show" and starred in the movie "Girls Trip".

At age 9, Tiffany Haddish acted as a mother to her younger siblings after her own mother was badly hurt in a car accident. She fed them and dressed them all while helping her mother recover. By the time she was 12, she entered into foster care. She felt a strong sense of responsibility to her younger sibling and, although she had been separated from her siblings, would often find where they were and go to them to make sure they were being taken care of.

She didn't feel like she belonged in the middle school that she moved to once she entered foster care, and would get up early to go back to her old school. In order to feel like she fit in, she took advice from the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit. In the movie, the detective asks Roger, ‘Why are people doing all this nice stuff for you?’ And he says, ‘Because I make them laugh. If you make them laugh, they’ll do anything for you.’

This stayed with her and she learned to make people laugh. She went on to attend the Laugh factory where she was influenced by comedy giants like Richard Pryor, Dane Cook, and the Waynes Brothers.

She was later reunited with her siblings and lived with their grandmother. Tiffany exemplifies the resilience of youth that experience foster care.

05/04/2023

COLIN KAEPERNICK
Whether you agree with his sideline situation or not, you can’t deny that Colin Kaepernick is a great quarterback. Since starting his professional quarterback career in 2012, Kaepernick has broken many records in the NFL.

Kaepernick, the youngest of three siblings, was put into foster care and then adopted. Another success of the foster care system!

05/04/2023

Donating to organizations that provide job training for aged-out foster youth is an excellent way to make a positive impact on their lives. Here are some examples of how your donation can provide job training for aged-ou...

05/03/2023

EDDIE MURPHY