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Abundantly Loving Foster Children. Providing Support to Families. Restoring Dignity to Every Child.
About Us
We abundantly love foster children!
The Ruth Project is a non-profit on a mission to end the modern-day orphan crisis. Through donations and volunteering, we give foster children hope, restore their dignity, and provide care to their foster families. This encouragement helps write new chapters in these children’s stories and change the trajectory of their lives.
Our vision is that all foster children will feel abundantly loved, deeply cared for, and experience true hope in Jesus.
God’s Love. Jesus’ Hope. Our Hands!
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The Crisis
Every 2 minutes
a child is removed from their home and placed into foster care
More than 70%
of children with siblings are separated from one or more of them while in care.
Our Mission
The Ruth Project abundantly loves foster children by sharing the hope of Jesus and being His hands and feet through practical provisions, ongoing support, and community connections. We do this at our Boutique and at The Farm in Sycamore. Both are located at the epicenter of 18,000 of the 22,000 children in the IL foster care system.
Give Now
All donations fund Boutique and Farm operations, provide ongoing support to families, help us care for children from infancy to adulthood, and increase our impact.
Volunteer
Volunteer at our Boutique or Sycamore Farm. Come on your own or with your family, church group, work team, or school students!
Donate Items
Fresh, new items provide hope and dignity to children and their foster families. Reach us below to schedule a drop-off.
Your contribution allows us to provide:
Practical Provisions
The Ruth Project Boutique begins a new chapter in the life stories of foster families and children.
Our Boutique is far more than an abundant, no-cost shopping experience for foster families. It launches the journey back to hope and dignity for children, and is a hopeful welcome into friendship and encouragement for parents. Birth and adopted children also receive care and love—because fostering is part of their story too. These families are invited back again and again as their children grow, seasons change, and they welcome new placements. This is James 1:27 in action – God’s love and Jesus’ hope through our hands!
Ongoing Support
Long-term support promotes long-term success.
Ongoing support can make the difference between long-term fostering and giving up. 50% of foster families quit, exhausted after their first year. The Farm in Sycamore is a refuge and place of connection where these families are strengthened to stay the course through by creating life-giving memories and forging lifeline friendships with other foster families. The hope of Jesus permeates all we do, so every family member and child knows they are loved, seen, and cherished. What a sense of belonging!
Community Connections
Families thrive when their communities care.
Entire communities join the foster journey by rallying around foster families right in our own backyard. Hundreds of individuals in local organizations, churches, restaurants, businesses, and other non-profits have caught our vision, becoming champions for vulnerable children. These dedicated partners generously share their time, talent, and resources in countless ways. Together, our hands can help change the trajectory of children’s lives for generations to come!
Practical Provisions
The Ruth Project Boutique begins a new chapter in the life stories of foster families and children.
Our Boutique is far more than an abundant, no-cost shopping experience for foster families. It launches the journey back to hope and dignity for children, and is a hopeful welcome into friendship and encouragement for parents. Birth and adopted children also receive care and love—because fostering is part of their story too. These families are invited back again and again as their children grow, seasons change, and they welcome new placements. This is James 1:27 in action – God’s love and Jesus’ hope through our hands!
Ongoing Support
Long-term support promotes long-term success.
Ongoing support can make the difference between long-term fostering and giving up. 50% of foster families quit, exhausted after their first year. The Farm in Sycamore is a refuge and place of connection where these families are strengthened to stay the course through by creating life-giving memories and forging lifeline friendships with other foster families. The hope of Jesus permeates all we do, so every family member and child knows they are loved, seen, and cherished. What a sense of belonging!
Community Connections
Families thrive when their communities care.
Entire communities join the foster journey by rallying around foster families right in our own backyard. Hundreds of individuals in local organizations, churches, restaurants, businesses, and other non-profits have caught our vision, becoming champions for vulnerable children. These dedicated partners generously share their time, talent, and resources in countless ways. Together, our hands can help change the trajectory of children’s lives for generations to come!
Who We Are
The journey to creating The Ruth Project was divinely planned. Tammy McMahan, Founder of The Ruth Project and foster parent to over 20 children since 2016, opened the Boutique in November 2020. Yet the seeds of this story were planted long before then. Learn more about Tammy and The Ruth Project Team.
"But God will never forget the needy; the hope of the afflicted will never perish."Psalm 9:18
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