Foundation Highlights
Wednesday's Child Receives National Award from Congressional Coalition
Foundation signature adoption effort honored as a 'National Angel in Adoption' for helping find adoptive homes for 2000 children in foster care.
Foundation, Partners to Expand Family Shelter
A Foundation grant will help Northern Virginia Family Service and HomeAid build a family support wing at SERVE shelter – to house 250 more homeless children and their parents.
Foundation, Partners Celebrate Foster Families at the Nationals
The Foundation and its partners recently took DC-area foster families out to the ball game. Nine families were recognized on field, helping raise public awareness of the need for foster parents.
Foundation, Partners Celebrate Foster Families at the Nationals
The Foundation and its partners recently took DC-area foster families out to the ball game. Nine families were recognized on field, helping raise public awareness of the need for foster parents.
Bringing New Orleans Families Home
New Orleans families hit hard by Katrina are returning home to their neighborhood. The Foundation has teamed up with Enterprise Community Partners to provide critical resident services at a new affordable housing complex.
Freddie Mac Foundation Adoption Expo
About 1500 people turned out for the Freddie Mac Foundation Adoption Expo to learn more about adoption from experts and families.
'Angels in Adoption' Honored
A recent event honored ‘Angels in Adoption’ for their work on behalf of children in need of families.
Freddie Mac Foundation Wednesday's Child Adoption Program
Watch a Fox 11 segment on our Wednesday's Child Los Angeles families. And, view an NBC10 interview with President and CEO Ralph Boyd about our Philadelphia program.
Foster Parent Recruitment Campaign
The Freddie Mac Foundation is sponsoring Kids Need Families Like Yours, a media campaign to recruit more foster parents in the D.C. region.
Foundation Helps Provide Free, After Hours Child Care
Among the Freddie Mac Foundation's investments is free, evening child care for low-income parents who work late nights. The grant to the nonprofit Bright Beginnings helps provide a much-needed service to parents who've struggled to find quality, after hours care for their children. Read more in the Washington Post article.
Grant to FACETS Helps Families Find Housing
The Foundation is supporting FACETS' efforts to rapidly re-house homeless families – helping them avoid shelters and get back on their feet faster.
Recent Investments: Housing Programs, Stabilizing Youth and Families
Grants to nonprofits like the Transitional Housing Corporation and Covenant House help stabilize families and former foster youth and enable them to become self-sufficient.
New Orleans Housing Community With Services Opens
The Foundation recently celebrated the opening of an affordable housing complex and community center in New Orleans. Our investment is bringing critical services to residents.
Foundation Receives Award for Support of Foster Children
The Freddie Mac Foundation recently received an award from VA Gov. Kaine and First Lady Holton for its support of children in foster care.
MD Homeless Families Receive Permanent Housing, Services
Recent grants to two Montgomery County nonprofits will help place homeless families in permanent housing and provide them the services they need to prosper.
Foundation Sponsors National Adoption Day
On National Adoption Day November 21, more than 4,500 adoptions of children from foster care were finalized. The Foundation is a founding sponsor of the event.
A "Wednesday's Child" Performs with Stevie Wonder
Marlon, a teen in foster care, had the experience of a lifetime – performing with legend Stevie Wonder – through the Freddie Mac Foundation’s Wednesday's Child adoption program.