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No matter the season, the need never ends for children in the foster care system. Your recurring monthly donation allows us to provide resources, shelter and support services for youth in the Texas foster care system.
Help A Child Today!
No matter the season, the need never ends for children in the foster care system. Your donation allows us to provide resources, shelter and support services for youth in the Texas foster care system.
Sponsor A Child
A Hope Pack is often the first thing to provide comfort to a child on what is often the worst day of his, her or their life. You can help make sure that every child who is entering the foster care system in Texas has a fresh start by sponsoring Hope Packs for babies, children and teens in care.
Carrying Hope Programs
Carrying Hope is Changing the Narrative for Youth in Foster Care
Hair + Hope Program
The Hair + Hope program helps to fulfill the frequently neglected basic needs of African-American and biracial youths in foster care while also supporting and fully compensating stylists from predominately Black-, woman-owned salons who share their time and talent to support youths in care.
Our Hair + Hope program partners and fully compensates local stylists who are experts in textured hair with African American and biracial youth in the foster care system in desperate need of hair care services. Since its initiation, our Hair + Hope program has benefitted more than 100 youths in foster care.
Hope’s Home
Did you know that more than half of youths who age out of the foster care system become homeless within two years? Hope’s Home, our transitional housing project for youths who are aging out of the foster care system, combats this devastating scenario by providing young people ages 18-21 with housing, support, and wrap-around case management services, allowing them not only to have a place to sleep but also gain access to jobs, school, medical care, and more.
Make a Hope Pack
Carrying Hope’s Hope Packs –– backpacks brimming with comfort items and essentials designed to meet the needs of newborns through teens during the first 24-48 hours in foster care –– offer comfort and peace during a moment of crisis. Since 2016, we have distributed more than 22,000 Hope Packs to CPS and foster care agencies across Texas.
Request a Hope Pack
If you are an agency or a caregiver in need of Hope Packs, we are here to help!
How to Get Involved
Find the best way to support Carrying Hope
Organize A Corporate Drive
You’re in good company! Whether it’s a 10-person packing drive in our office or a 600-employee corporate drive, there are many ways to get involved with Carrying Hope.
Participate in one of Carrying Hope’s Annual Events
April, 2024
Hope Blooms Gala
We hope you will join us for Carrying Hope’s 7th Annual Gala, Hope Blooms, on Thursday, April 11, 2024, at Brazos Hall!
Purchase your tickets now and find out about our exciting sponsorship and underwriting opportunities RIGHT HERE!
Funds raised at our annual gala will enable Carrying Hope to significantly expand our reach across Texas, ensure that every child entering the foster care system arrives with a Hope Pack filled with everything he/she/they needs for the first 48 hours in care, and help us sustain our new transitional housing program for youth who are aging out of care.
Summer 2024
Carrying Hope's Annual Summer Drives
In honor of our 7th anniversary of becoming a 501c3 nonprofit, Carrying Hope is splashing into summer with two very special events!
On Saturday, July 22, we’ll be hosting a fabulous pool party for some spectacular foster youth living in Houston-area residential treatment centers, shelters, and group homes. Then, on Tuesday, Aug. 1, we’ll be taking an additional 50 foster youth to Schlitterbahn New Braunfels for a fantastic day of food and fun! All children who attend Carrying Hope’s Summer Drive and Hope’s 7th Birthday Bash events will also leave with Hope Packs containing gift cards so they can shop for new school clothes to give them a little extra confidence as they enter the new school year!
Want to be an event sponsor? Email info@carryinghope.org.
Want to donate a gift card?
Thank you so much for your support in helping Carrying Hope celebrate our 7th year of providing hope and comfort to children in foster care!
December 2024
Hope For the Holidays
From the twinkling lights that set entire streets aglow to the nostalgic holiday tunes that fill grocery and department stores, there’s no season quite as magical as the holidays. But for youth in the foster care system who are residing in local shelters and residential treatment centers and spending the holidays without families, this time of year can be dark and lonely.
Carrying Hope has wonderful ways that you can help make the holidays merry and bright for foster children this holiday season!
Interested in becoming a delivery driver?
Sign up to become a driver for the Austin, Houston or Central Texas area.
Sign up here!
Gender-Inclusive Hope Packs
Carrying Hope strives to ensure that our Hope Packs contain a range of items that reflect the diversity and interests of the children we serve, including those who are part of the LGBTQ community. Want to make a gender-inclusive Hope Pack? Purchase items from our Inclusive Wishlist or swap gender-specific items for gender-neutral items in any age Hope Pack.
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Mission Impact
Carrying Hope's mission is to improve the lives of youth and families who have been impacted by the foster care system through resources, support services, housing, and enrichment opportunities. Since we were founded in 2016, we have distributed more than 22,000 Hope Packs to CPS and foster care agencies across Texas.
Hope Pack Distributions YOY
- 550 Hope Packs in 2016
- 1200 Hope Packs in 2017
- 1563 Hope Packs in 2018
- 2700 Hope Packs in 2019
- 4010 Hope Packs in 2020
- 5000 Hope Packs in 2021
- 6000 Hope Packs in 2022
Hope Packs Distributed to Children in Foster Care
Hope Packs Distributed Every Day in 2023
$ Spent Directly on Foster Care Children
How You Can Help
Carrying Hope is always in need of volunteers willing to help serve our mission and further our cause. From large-scale corporate events that create hundreds of Hope Packs at a time to community drives to family service projects, there are plenty of ways for you to get involved.
Here are three of our most popular ways to help:
THE “HOPE ALL YEAR” GIFT: $600
Your gift of $600 will provide Hope Packs to more than a half-dozen children who are entering the foster care system.
THE “SIBLING HOPE” GIFT: $200
Your gift of $200 will provide Hope Packs for a sibling group that is entering the foster care system.
THE “CLASSIC HOPE” GIFT:$85
Your gift of $85 will provide 1 Hope Pack to a child who is entering the foster care system.
No matter the season, the need never ends for children in the foster care system. Your recurring monthly donation allows us to provide ongoing support in the form of Hope Packs and most-needed items to the children, youth and teens who need it most.
Short on time? Purchase a Hope Pack! Every pack is brimming with adorable comfort items and essentials for a child entering the foster care system, providing them with some much-needed comfort and hope in a moment of crisis.
Carrying Hope is thrilled to have a larger-than-life mascot, Hope the Hedgehog, who adores spending time with children and adults alike! You’ll frequently see her making new friends, passing out stickers and collecting Hope Pack items at Carrying Hope events. She’s also available for birthday parties, office visits and more!
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