Warm Blankets restores the lives of orphans in partnership with churches, corporations, organizations and individuals who have a passion to help needy, parentless children. They build and staff orphan homes around the world in countries where international adoption is not available. www.warmblankets.com/

RESULTS: $15,000 from RetailROI helped pay for housing, education, clothing, and food for 15 children and 4 caregivers in Cham Kasen, Cambodia for a full year.  $1,000 pays for a child for a full year through Warm Blankets. 

Since 2005, Safe Families for Children has offered sanctuary to thousands of children, minimizing the risk for abuse or neglect and giving parents the time and tools they need to help their families thrive. The ultimate goal is to strengthen and support parents so they can become Safe Families for their own children and keep them out of foster care. www.safe-families.org

Results: Over 2,000 children were served by Safe Families nationwide in 2010.  85% of those children were returned to their own families, keeping them out of foster care.  If this holds, our $50,000 would save $68 Million dollars to state and local governments by keeping kids out of the state system. RetailROI grants directly funded the creation of Safe Families prograns in Nashville and Minneapolis, and extended them in Chicago and Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

RetailROI joins Free for Life International in its commitment to rescue and restore victims of human trafficking and eliminate modern-day slavery.

Free For Life International is a non-profit fundraising organization committed to setting sex-trafficking victims free for life by financially supporting local organizations. Sex trafficking is a complex and powerful global enterprise fueled by millions of dollars and is the fastest growing criminal activity worldwide. It victimizes marginalized young women and imprisons them in cycles of shame, abuse, and isolation. Those rescued from sex slavery face a host of challenges as they recover their humanity—their rescue is just the beginning. Since 2005 Free For Life International partners with local organizations to provide the following services: Border Monitoring Stations, (since this border station on the Nepal?India border opened in July 2010 99 girls have been rescued. www.freeforlifeintl.org

Results: A $5,000 grant was given in 2010 to help create a border monitoring station to look for victims of human trafficking between India and Nepal.  In the first 18 months, over 100 girls have been rescued from a life of human trafficking.

Lifesong for Orphans provides grants and zero interest loans for adoption. They also work with churches to manage adoption funds, reducing the administrative burden at no cost. They also support specific orphanages and act as advocates for adoption. www.lifesongfororphans.org

Results: ROI funds used for clean water Projects in Haiti and Liberia for $10,000.   First school in 14 years in Marshall, Liberia - for 84 students for $30,000.  Computer lab with 59 systems for a school of 550 students in Honduras for $18,000. Also adoption grant of $2,500 used for 4 children to come home.

Share the Blessings responds to the profound needs of children in developing countries, specifically in Africa, for education and clean water. They are currently working on constructing wells in Uganda in an area with a high concentration of orphans who are in desperate need for clean water. www.share-the-blessings.org

Results: Developed new well for school and education grants for orphans in Uganda for $10,000.

4Kids of South Florida provides safe houses for children who are removed from their homes. Every child in Broward County who is brought into the Child Welfare system due to abuse, neglece and/or abandonment is given loving shelter and supervision while case workers search for the best permanent placement. www.4kidsofsfl.org

Results: Over 800 children a year come through the 4Kids program in Broward County, Florida.  ROI grants used to extend 4Kids into new programs like Safe Families and Safe Place, a transistional program for kids aging out of foster kids to help them get on their feet as adults.

Cornerstone Children's Home is the result of a resettling of previously homeless children in Southern Sudan. Today more than 60 children are housed, fed and nurtured in a loving environment. A building is nearing completion located on the same compound as the church, which will provide a safe and healthy place for the children to live. http://fulaalifeline.org

Results: $30,000 allowed for the completion of a group orphan home for 84 children who lost parents to HIV or the Sudanese civil war to come home to a safe and loving environment in Southern Sudan. Specifically, our grant completed a new section of the house for 24 more children to have a home.

Steven Curtis Chapman and his wife, Mary Beth initially founded Show Hope out of their desire to see more children find their way into forever families. Though many families they talked to were willing to adopt, the financial costs to adoption were simply too high. From a six-story caring facility in China, equipped to provide surgeries and medical care to special needs orphans, to multiplying the effects of the adoption grant program by assisting churches in setting up their own adoption funds, Show Hope continues to expand its remarkable worldwide impact. www.showhope.org

Results: RetailROI grants used for 4 adoption grants to families needing to complete an adoption as well as supporting the extension of the Empowered to Connect Conference that brings knowledge and tools for parents of children from hard places. These conferences help parents create connection with their children by re-establishing some of the physiological connections that might not have formed if children lived early years in an institution.

Hoops of Hope: In the spring of 2004, Austin Gutwein (9 yrs old) watched a video that showed children who had lost their parents to AIDS. After watching the video, he realized these kids weren’t any different from him except they were suffering. Austin felt God calling him to do something to help them. He decided to shoot free throws and on World AIDS Day, 2004, he shot 2,057 free throws to represent the 2,057 kids who would be orphaned during his day at school. Friends and family sponsored Austin and he was able to raise almost $3,000. Today Hoops of Hope is the biggest basketball shoot-a-thon in the world, much like a walk-a-thon, but more fun! You can join thousands of participants and teams from around the world that shoot free throws for children in need. Every dollar raised will go directly to the project you select to help these children. Every free throw will literally help keep children from becoming orphans. http://www.hoopsofhope.org

Results: The $10,000 grant is being used to create a computer lab for the high school that was built through Hoops of Hope, providing internet access to children in this part of Zambia for the first time.