Wendy's program to assist adoption agencies: the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, named for Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers Restaurants' founder, has launched an initiative to find permanent adoptive homes for children waiting in foster care.(FOCUS: COMMUNITY OUTREACH)

Franchising World | February 1, 2006 | Copyright

A Signature Program of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption

The goal of the "Wendy's Wonderful Kids " program is to place 8,000 to 10,000 foster care children by 2010 through grants to local adoption agencies. Wendy's Wonderful Kids is the first nationwide program that partners a major corporation with a national foundation in an effort to place local foster care children in permanent homes.

"Each year 20,000 children in foster care age out of the public child welfare system without a permanent family," said Rita Soronen, Dave Thomas Foundation for ...

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