Christmas Program

Tis The Season of Giving

Our Christmas Program

Fostering Futures organizes a special Christmas program for children and youth in foster care. We strive to provide each child with not just a gift or two, but a full Christmas. Foster families are incredibly gracious, but they often don’t have the means to make Christmas extra special for the children in their home. Teenagers and young adults are particularly left out, as most donations are toys for young children. Our Christmas program is open to children of all ages in foster care, as well as those who have aged out of foster care within the last two years (ages birth - 22).

We use this exciting holiday season to help provide for each child's needs and wants. Through our Christmas program, we match donors with children in foster care to sponsor for the holidays. Donors are provided with important information about their assigned child, a brief story about them, and a list of their wishes, needs, and interests. Donors can then shop for their child and turn in the gifts to Fostering Futures. Donors can also purchase gifts from our Amazon Wish List and have them shipped directly to Fostering Futures. Foster parents or case managers can pick up their child's gifts at one of our two locations: South St. Louis County or St. Charles County.

Know a child who needs a sponsor?

Foster Parents and Case Managers you can fill out the Christmas application for child(ren), located under "Christmas Application." Please submit forms ASAP. Applications are assigned on first come, first serve basis. Foster parents must submit forms for their foster children. Case managers are only allowed to submit applications for young adults in independent or transitional living situations.

How You Can Help

Sponsor a child/Young Adult's Christmas

Sponsoring a child(ren) or young adult in foster care for Christmas means taking care of their gifts for the holiday and that we will not need to shop for additional gifts for this child. Not only are you supporting a child in foster care, but you are also supporting foster families.

Often groups of people (families, friends, classmates, coworkers, businesses, schools, scout troops, etc.) will sponsor a child/sibling set together.

If your group is able to sponsor more than one child, please let us know. We like to keep siblings groups together when possible to ensure that they receive equal amounts of gifts.

You will be provided with information on your assigned child(ren), which includes his/her wish list, age, interests, hobbies, and favorite things.
When you receive your child's information, you will also receive a due date. Please, please deliver your gifts by your specified due date. We want to ensure that gifts are provided to foster families in time for the holiday.
You can participate no matter where you live!! Anyone can shop online and have your gifts shipped to Fostering Futures. We ask that you please specify the name of the child you are shopping for when shipping your gifts to avoid any confusion. Please take shipping times into consideration when ordering gifts online.
We do not accept used gifts. Fostering Futures strives to give kids in foster care a better Christmas than they would otherwise have.
We do NOT take requests for a specific age or gender. The only requests we accept are those for teenagers and older youth. If you are interested in a teen/older youth, please let me know and this particular request can almost always be accommodated. If you have a group of children (students, scout troops, etc.) sponsoring a child in foster care for Christmas, we can try to accommodate a request for a child of the same gender and age.
All gifts must be delivered UNWRAPPED.

We have two drop off locations:

South St. Louis County (63129) - contact Erin at erin@fosteringfuturesmo.org
St. Charles County (63368) - contact Caitlin at csheda926@yahoo.com

make a donation

Donate gifts - We graciously accept donations of new toys and other items to gift to our foster children for Christmas. You can purchase gifts off of our Amazon Wish List and have them shipped directly to Fostering Futures. This list will be posted and items will be added often when there is something specific needed. Please consider items listed as "high priority."

Make a monetary donation - We understand that the holiday season is a busy time of year for most people. Not everyone has time for additional shopping. Making a monetary donation will help us to shop and provide for more children in foster care this Christmas. You can make a tax-deductible, monetary donation at the bottom of this page.

Amazon Christmas List