Every child deserves someone who refuses to give up on them.

On October 12th, 1,200 of those people will be in the same room. Will you?

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1,200+

Attendees Expected

Partner Organizations

$2.1M

Raised Since 2018

8,400

Children Reached

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Marcus and Delia Okafor with their foster children seated around a large wooden table covered in drawings and homework

Marcus & Delia Okafor · Atlanta, GA

We didn't set out to become parents to seven kids. We set out to make sure none of them spent another night wondering if anyone would come back.

214school mornings covered

3siblings kept together

Renata Vasquez · New Horizons Youth Shelter, Denver

The night we almost had to close, it wasn't a government grant that saved us. It was forty-three people who'd been to a Cradle event and remembered our name.

1,840nights sheltered last year

12caseworkers still employed

Renata Vasquez, shelter director, standing in a warmly lit hallway of New Horizons Youth Shelter

Thomas Brannigan, foster parent of eleven years, sitting on porch steps with two teenage foster children

Thomas Brannigan · Portland, OR

People ask how I've done it eleven years. I tell them: I didn't do it alone. There was always someone, somewhere, who believed this work was worth funding.

11years fostering

9successful reunifications

October 12, 2026 · Atlanta, GA

There's a seat with your name on it.

The Cradle Annual Gathering brings together the people who show up — year after year — so that children don't have to go it alone.

847 of 1,200 seats claimed353 remaining

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8,400+ Children Reached