Be a “change-maker” and donate your spare change to the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption® coin canisters at your local Wendy’s restaurant.
When you visit Wendy's, you are supporting our signature cause, the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption®.
Helping children in foster care is even more gratifying when you do it at Wendy’s®. Whether you get a Snap Cup, participate in the "Fill a Home with Love" Pin-Up campaign, purchase Boo! Books™ or a Frosty® Key Tag, or simply drop your change in the counter canister, you’re making a lifetime of impact for children who need our help the most.
Our goal is simple: find a loving home for every child in foster care. One of the ways we do this is by donating money from our cause campaigns to the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption®, which issues grants to adoption agencies to hire and train specialized recruiters through the Wendy’s Wonderful Kids® program. Together, we’ve helped thousands of children across North America, and we’re helping more every day.
The real champions of our adoption support program are the specialized adoption recruiters from the Wendy’s Wonderful Kids® program. These amazing individuals are paired with children in foster care, working with them in small caseloads to focus more time and effort on finding the best home for the child. Their proven tactics get results; children paired with a WWK recruiter are up to three times more likely to be adopted.
Children in the Wendy’s Wonderful Kids program have often been waiting the longest for their adoptive families. The average child in the program is 8 years old and has spent more than 3 years in foster care. Each year, more than 20,000 teens age out of foster care without a family, leaving them at a higher risk of homelessness, substance abuse and other negative outcomes. Our goal is to achieve Dave’s vision that every child will have a permanent home and loving family.
So far, the Wendy’s Wonderful Kids® program has helped more than 9,000 children get adopted into loving homes. But we’re not finished until every child in foster care has a home. That’s what Dave would want. By 2028, the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption® hopes to have 2,600 Wendy’s Wonderful Kids recruiters in the U.S. and Canada, serving nearly 60,000 children.
Helping children in foster care is even more gratifying when you do it at Wendy’s®. Whether you get a Snap Cup, participate in the "Fill a Home with Love" Pin-Up campaign, purchase Boo! Books™ or a Frosty® Key Tag, or simply drop your change in the counter canister, you’re making a lifetime of impact for children who need our help the most.
Our goal is simple: find a loving home for every child in foster care. One of the ways we do this is by donating money from our cause campaigns to the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption®, which issues grants to adoption agencies to hire and train specialized recruiters through the Wendy’s Wonderful Kids® program. Together, we’ve helped thousands of children across North America, and we’re helping more every day.
The real champions of our adoption support program are the specialized adoption recruiters from the Wendy’s Wonderful Kids® program. These amazing individuals are paired with children in foster care, working with them in small caseloads to focus more time and effort on finding the best home for the child. Their proven tactics get results; children paired with a WWK recruiter are up to three times more likely to be adopted.
Children in the Wendy’s Wonderful Kids program have often been waiting the longest for their adoptive families. The average child in the program is 8 years old and has spent more than 3 years in foster care. Each year, more than 20,000 teens age out of foster care without a family, leaving them at a higher risk of homelessness, substance abuse and other negative outcomes. Our goal is to achieve Dave’s vision that every child will have a permanent home and loving family.
So far, the Wendy’s Wonderful Kids® program has helped more than 9,000 children get adopted into loving homes. But we’re not finished until every child in foster care has a home. That’s what Dave would want. By 2028, the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption® hopes to have 2,600 Wendy’s Wonderful Kids recruiters in the U.S. and Canada, serving nearly 60,000 children.
Wendy's offers adoption benefits to its employees, including paid time off, bonding leave, and financial assistance for each adopted child. And we're not alone! Hundreds of companies are "adopting" adoption benefits because all parents deserve support and time to bond with their children. Adoption-friendly policies create loyal and happy employees.
Dave Thomas was adopted when he was just six-weeks old. In 1992, he established the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. The DTFA is Wendy's charity of choice and foster care adoption is our brand's signature cause.
Wendy's Wonderful Kids recruiters tackle the most challenging adoption cases. Supporting the work of foster care adoption isn't easy, but it's worth it.