🚴 Expanding Horizons Awards: Fund items and experiences that are fundamentally a part of growing up. Examples of our work include covering the cost of bicycles, museum/camp fees, tutoring, martial arts classes, and musical instruments. These awards are available all year round.
😎 Summer Fun Awards: Help children in care stay active and have fun. Past awards include museum passes, day trips to national parks, wading pools, outdoor games, and art supplies. This program typically opens in May.
🎂 It’s Your Birthday!: Celebrates each young person’s special day. With this new program, children and youth in care would receive gifts or gift cards tailored to their interests as well as a book based on their age. Request at least two weeks prior to child’s birthday.
👕 Style and Fit: Provides assistance with clothing needs of foster children/youth by providing $150 shopping awards. Children in care often have little control over what is happening to them; this program empowers them by giving them ownership and choice in clothing. Look for this program to open in late summer.
🎓 Scholarships: Assists with expenses related to both living and attending college or trade school. One recipient described the impact on her self-image: “I thought no one would give me a scholarship, but you did, and I am going to apply for more since you gave me one.” 2022 deadlines: June 1, September 1, December 1.
Information about how to participate in each of these programs can be found on our website: www.nmffc.org.
