Angels Foster Family Network

Amy Larson, Lead Partner

“The partnership between Angels and SDSVP has been a great one since day one. The talent and support of many of their members has been an impetus, resulting in more funding, successful marketing, and a record-breaking number of babies being rescued.”

Cathy Richman, Founder and Executive Director

Founder Cathy Richman developed the Angels foster program’s unique methodology in 1998 because she saw a need for a new way to address a chronic problem—how to protect the most fragile of children within a system that can do further damage by constantly moving infants and toddlers from foster home to foster home.

Angels is a licensed, private nonprofit foster family agency with a unique emphasis on the stable placement of abused foster infants with healthy, nurturing families who promote emotional bonding, helping the children grow into happy, productive, secure adults. Since January 2000, Angels has placed 250 babies with some of the finest, most loving and committed foster families available, and the organization expects to place an additional 60 babies in 2008.

SDSVP has provided a capacity-building grant and committed Partners who have helped establish a marketing brand for Angels, helped create a five-year strategic plan, assisted with board development, and financed an outside funding consultant who helped hire their first Director of Development. The social return on investment will be measured by the number of children now living healthy, happy lives and families that have been made whole after what seemed like such a tragic start.