Fundraising for Baby Cline!
Hi friends! It's been about a month since we announced our adoption! We have felt SO loved and encouraged by so many of you since making our big announcement!
We have been incredibly busy this past month with brainstorming fundraising ideas and moving forward with 3 agencies to assist in our adoption. I hope this post will help answer some questions you might have about the financial part of adoption- how much our adoption will cost, what the cost will cover, why we are fundraising, and how much we need to raise. We want to be upfront about this fundraising process for a couple of reasons. One is because we get asked these questions so often! Also, our hope is to educate people about the adoption process and that includes the financial part of it! Another reason is because we want the people involved in our fundraising to know the details about what their giving is going towards!
How much will the adoption cost?
First let's start with how much we are anticipating to spend on our adoption. The average adoption is typically somewhere between $30,000 to $50,000. Our adoption will be around $40,000. We aren't sure what the final expenses will be yet, but as of now, we are expecting it to be this amount.
What does that cover?
Pre-natal care for the birthmother (everything from housing, utilities, maternity clothes, toiletries etc)
Legal Fees
Social Services (transportation to and from doctor's appointments, counseling, phone time, etc)
Case Administration
Birth Certificates
Baby's Medical Expense
Birth Mother's medical (if not covered by Medicaid)
Travel fees
Our Adoption Consultants service fee
Our home study fee
Cost of our profile book-design & printing
Why fundraise?
To be honest, we just don't have the money! When we started our adoption journey, we were very intimidated by how much we were going to spend. We talked about the cost, thought about it and prayed about it, set a budget and felt a peace about moving forward with our adoption regardless of the high expense. From the time we knew that God was calling us to adoption we knew that he was going to provide the money for us to bring out sweet baby home!
T-Shirt Fundraiser
Our t-shirt fundraiser will be going strong for 17 more days! We have a goal to sell 100! You can order short sleeve, long sleeve or youth in several colors! Thank you SO much to those of you who have already bought shirts!
We also have a youcaring account set up. You can make a tax-free donation where 100% of the proceeds go towards our adoption.
I hope this post has given you a little more insight into our adoption fundraising process! Feel free to contact us with any questions you may have!
We have been so blessed by the response we've had so far to our adoption and fundraising process! We are so thankful for the generous hearts of the people in our life. Stay tuned for more blog posts!
With Love,
Chris, Katy & Weston
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