• foster to adopt
    June 10, 2019

    Katie’s Foster to Adopt Story

    Katie’s Foster to Adopt Story Choosing the foster to adopt path is a decision that has powerful potential. Potential to positively impact the world of a child. Everyone that chooses to become a foster parent does so for various reasons. Katie, a mother of two, as well as an adoption advocate, shares her foster to…

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  • Bike Build
    June 6, 2019

    3rd Annual Bike Build During Ali Week

    3rd Annual Bike Build We at Foster Love - Together We Rise are experts when it comes to charitable Bike Build programs. Our friends at Fourth Street Live! and the local Louisville Metro Police Department invited us out for the third annual A Kid, A Cop, A Cause event during Ali Week celebrating the life of Muhammad Ali. Celebrating Muhammad…

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  • group activities
    June 1, 2019

    Group Activities With Disney

    Group Activities With Disney VoluntEARs We love group activities. Especially when we are helping our Disney VoluntEARs friends! A lot of us at Foster Love - Together We Rise have a special place in our hearts for Disney. Our Brea HQ is right up the street from Disneyland. We literally jumped for joy when the Disney VoluntEARs asked…

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  • charitable team build superhero box
    May 30, 2019

    Charitable Team Building: Superhero Box

    Charitable Team Building: Superhero Boxes Foster Love - Together We Rise is a leading expert in charitable team building events. We’ve been working with individuals and companies nationwide to make a positive impact in their communities for over a decade. Our goal is to help educate individuals and teams about the foster care system, while providing support to…

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  • national bike month
    May 28, 2019

    Foster Care Awareness Month 2019

    Foster Care Awareness Month 2019 Did you know that Foster Care Awareness Month and National Bicycle month are both in May? To help us raise awareness our friends at Huffy Bikes helped us donate bicycles to foster and adoptive families across the U.S. They shipped bikes to our Austin, TX and Brea, CA offices and…

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  • kids volunteer
    May 24, 2019

    Kids Helping Kids- Our Cool Friend Clayton

    Kids Helping Kids- Our Cool Friend Clayton Kids helping kids is one of the greatest things. When a child sees an issue and wants to make a change, that brings us hope. Hope in our future and hope that in our lifetime we will be able to change the way children experience the foster system.…

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  • May 22, 2019

    Q&A With Foster To Adoption Mom Beth

    Beth’s Foster To Adoption Journey The path through adoption varies from parent to parent. Today, Beth shares her foster to adoption journey with us. 1. When did you start your adoption journey? (Did you foster to adopt? Have you always wanted to adopt?)  Our adoption journey first started in October 2016. We fostered to adopt through our County DPSS and were all approved…

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  • corporate bonding
    May 17, 2019

    Corporate Bonding With Alexandria

    Corporate Bonding With Alexandria Group Corporate bonding is an essential part of creating a positive corporate culture. As experts in corporate team bonding, we are always excited to help organizations flex in this arena. Our friends at Alexandria Group reached out to us for help with implementing a team bonding event. Alexandria Group’s Corporate and…

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  • activities for team building
    May 15, 2019

    Activities for Team Building with Channel Bakers

    Activities for Team Building with Channel Bakers We love developing activities for team building and team bonding events. Our friends at Channel Bakers in Anaheim Hills, reached out to us to help inspire their team with a charity team build. Of course, we leaped at this chance! Who is Channel Bakers? Why Charitable Team Building?…

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  • adoption story
    May 14, 2019

    Janeris's Foster To Adoption Story

    The Beginning All foster-to-adoption stories begin at different places. For our friend Janeris and her family, it began with doctors telling her not to get pregnant. Adoption became a possibility until learning that there is a true need in the foster care system. Janeris shared, “when we realized the huge need in the foster care…

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  • corporate philanthropy
    May 10, 2019

    How to Choose a Philanthropy

    How To Choose A Philanthropy Philanthropy comes in many forms, and with so many different causes, it can be difficult to choose a philanthropy and determine which one you want to dedicate yourself to. Each cause is important and worthwhile, but some may speak to you more than others. Philanthropic Health Causes There are plenty…

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  • foster to adoption
    May 8, 2019

    Alison’s Foster to Adoption Story

    Every adoption story is different. This story belongs to Alison B. from Atlanta, Georgia. Alison can’t remember when her desire to be a mom first manifested. It was always part of her being. Sadly, after having complications with PCOS and difficulties conceiving, Alison suffered a stillbirth at 36 weeks. “Life didn’t go as I had…

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  • Superhero Box
    April 28, 2019

    Superhero Boxes Have Landed

    Foster Love - Together We Rise is excited to announce the release of our latest program, Superhero Boxes. Together, with the launch of the Superhero Box, we’d like all children in foster care to feel supported and empowered. The Problem According to Speakupnow.org 25% of foster children experience PTSD. A rate comparable to that of U.S. war veterans, both…

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  • adoption_story
    April 27, 2019

    Amanda’s Foster to Adoption Story

    Every foster to adoption story is different. They each have a richly diverse background but we hope that all these stories have happy endings. Today’s adoption story is that of Amanda Baber and her newest son Xakry Cameron Johnson. The Babers are not new to the parent game before Xakry they had three children of…

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  • Take Your Child To Work Day
    April 27, 2019

    New York Life- Bring Your Child To Work Day

    Bring Your Child To Work Day April 25th is Bring Your Child To Work Day and our friends at New York Life relished in the day. To celebrate they hosted a Birthday Box Build to benefit children in foster care. Bring Your Child To Work Day, is one of our favorite “holidays” of the year.…

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  • bring your kid to work day
    April 26, 2019

    AIG Celebrates Bring Your Child To Work Day

    AIG Celebrates Bring Your Child To Work Day Bring Your Child To Work Day is one of our favorite days to do team builds. Employees get to bring their kids to the office. Children get to learn about the work their parents do while taking in some of the corporate culture. Such a fun time!…

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  • Philanthropic Team Build
    April 25, 2019

    Volunteer Team Builds with Arbonne

    Take your service volunteer team builds to the next level! Invest in a project that supports your community and team. Our friends at Arbonne believe in the importance of giving back while keeping their team connected. Their charitable initiatives organization-wide are focused on helping empower teens. “The Arbonne Charitable Foundation’s mission is to provide support for programs and…

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  • World Penguin Day 2019
    April 25, 2019

    World Penguin Day 2019

    Foster Love - Together We Rise loves celebrating April 25th, World Penguin Day! The day coincides with the annual northern migration of Adelie penguins. Because penguins do not fly, this march is at the speed of a walk or more realistically, a waddle. Our affinity for penguins is more than a coincidence. The reason penguins are a Together…

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  • team building in LA, CA
    April 13, 2019

    Charity Team Building Activities in Downtown LA

    Picture this, a beautiful night on a rooftop patio, in the middle of Downtown LA, people taking part in charity team building activities for good. All of the city is just an abundance of light and you’re helping the community. This is a thing of dreams! On April 11th in the heart of Downtown LA,…

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  • team building
    April 12, 2019

    Team Build Volunteer Opportunities with Topgolf

    Foster Love - Together We Rise flew to Scottsdale, Arizona, for a team build volunteer opportunities event with Topgolf. We love working with our friends at Topgolf and were ecstatic about the build. Topgolf is dedicated to its corporate and social responsibility efforts. Their commitment to their community extends more than 8.2k hours of volunteer time. Plus their teams…

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    April 11, 2019

    Dylan Chad's Foster Care Adoption Process

    Foster Love - Together We Rise loves to celebrate adoptions. One way we help foster families who go through the foster care adoption process is through our Framing Forever program. Our generous and talented network of volunteer photographers helps us offer free adoption day photos nationwide. Our latest Framing Forever family is Jennifer and Dylan Chad (age five).…

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  • Build a bike
    April 4, 2019

    Foster Kids Charity in the Big Apple

    Our friends at AIG invited us to their Manhattan, NY headquarters for an epic foster kids charity philanthropy focused team build. AIG is one of our longest standing partners. They have strong philanthropic values at the core of their corporate culture. Committed to doing the right thing for their people and the communities where they work, live…

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  • Sweet Case Duffle Bag
    April 2, 2019

    Sweet Case Team Build with Cisco

    Cisco invited the team out to Boston, MA for a philanthropic team build. With delight, the team hopped on a plane and spent a few hours in the historic city. As a leader in the tech world, Cisco makes its CSR efforts a priority. They have a goal of positively impacting 1 billion lived by…

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  • LinkedIn San Jose
    March 30, 2019

    CSR at the LinkedIn GTO Symposium

    CSR, also known as corporate and social responsibility is huge for tech companies. The theory behind CSR postulates that organizations are a part of our communities. As part of the community organizations should invest in the social and economic wellbeing of the community. For the last day of LinkedIn’s GTO symposium in San Jose, CA,…

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  • Long Beach, Irvine, TLD Law
    March 29, 2019

    Volunteer Opportunity for Team Builds- TLD Law

    Foster Love - Together We Rise is an expert in facilitating volunteer opportunity for team builds and charitable team-building service projects. This week we helped two divisions of TLD Law with a philanthropic team build of their own. The teams in Long Beach and Irvine, CA, helped assemble and donate 50 Sweet Case duffle bags. Sweet Cases are…

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