Stewardship Model

Our research and experience has led us to the belief that there are more loving families who desire to adopt a child than there are adoptable children. Many of these loving families are credit worthy, middle income families—teachers, firemen, nurses, postmen, etc.—who can support these children but find the initial costs of adoption to be prohibitive. These families may scrape together their savings and raise money from friends, but there is often still a financial gap. Our “Perpetual Family Fund” acts as a “non-profit bank” for these families. It is a superior stewardship model of sustainability where a dollar donated into the fund is lent out to a loving family at no cost—no interest. The families’ first responsibility is to pay back the loan so that another child may be adopted by a loving family. In this way a donor’s dollar passes from one family to the next, allowing child after child after child to join loving families. The families’ second responsibility is to spread the word about Pathways in their own neighborhood, helping to keep the organization’s overhead down, as much of its marketing is done through word of mouth.