Lauren · Digital Content Advisor
“I finally found my footing.”
Lauren shares honestly about the challenges and the successes, and why she is part of The Ties Foundation.
A global grantmaking foundation, built by and for intercountry adoptees
Intercountry adoption is a lifelong story. The support should be too.
We fund heritage travel, healing, and growth for adult intercountry adoptees - the support many adoptees need and most can’t afford.
Match Challenge · Through Oct 31
Trust-raising did this.
Announcing a 1:1 match of your money, up to $10,000. Thank you, Daniela and Dinel Coroiescu. This world is built on relationships. Every dollar you give is matched and fuels our first grant cycle in early 2027. Let’s go.
$0 of $10,000 matched
Match closes October 31 or when $10,000 is reached, whichever comes first. The match applies to gifts actually received.
Our Approach
We are solution people. We start with what’s already working — the resilience adoptees carry, the community already showing up for each other, the paths already proven to help. Then we look at what’s still missing. And we fund it.
The Gap
A community of millions. Support for only a few.
1.1M+
Intercountry adoptees worldwide
Millions
More when families & supporters are counted
Most
Never access post-adoptive support
Source: Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH), Global Statistics for Intercountry Adoption 2004–2022, compiled by Peter Selman, Newcastle University (2024).
Why We Exist
Three things we heard, again and again.
For decades, adoptees who traveled to their birth countries came back saying the same three things:
“That was the most important thing I’ve ever done.”
“I almost couldn’t afford to go.”
“I need help thinking about this when I return.”
Those three sentences are our whole reason for being: fund the journey, remove the cost, and fund the healing that follows. Read our full story.
Where We Stand
What we do. What we don’t.
We do
- Fund post-adoptive support for adult intercountry adoptees
- Make grants for heritage travel, therapy, and identity & community programs
- Serve people who are already adopted - and the loved ones walking with them
We don’t
- Facilitate, arrange, or promote adoptions
- Advocate for or against adoption as a practice
- Take positions on anyone’s adoption story but the one they tell us
Why I’m Here
Every one of us has a why
Watch
Two short films, one story.
1,000,000+ Worlds
A film from The Ties Foundation.
Watch on YouTubeThe Intercountry Adoption River
A short film from The Ties Foundation.
Watch on YouTubeLive right now
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