Abundantly Loving Foster Children. Providing Support to Families. Restoring Dignity to every Child.
About Us
The Ruth Project is a non-profit organization based in Elgin, IL on a mission to end the modern-day orphan crisis. Through donations and volunteering, we abundantly provide resources to foster and adoptive families, setting them up for long-term success. With your support, we can expand our reach and serve more families.
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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 provides foster and adoptive families with the resources, on-going support, and knowledge they need to give long-term love and care to children in need. There are 400,000 children in the U.S. without their families. In 2022, we hope to expand our reach by opening more Ruth Storehouses and growing our team of volunteers. We need your help!
Give Now
All donations fund storehouse operations, provide ongoing support to families, and help expand our future vision for more storehouses.
Volunteer
Volunteer in the storehouse, help at events, or provide rest to families through childcare opportunities.
Donate Items
Drop off new or gently used items to the storehouse. The storehouse is open for drop-offs weekly, Tuesday through Thursday
Your contribution allows us to provide:
Practical Provisions
Our Ruth Project Storehouse is an abundant shopping experience.
Crisp new wardrobes and toys to call their own begin the journey back to hope and dignity for children at The Ruth Project’s boutique-like Storehouse.
Foster families are gifted clothes, toys, and equipment in abundance. As children grow and seasons change, they can come back to shop over and over for any new needs. Families receive immediate and continuous practical relief through The Ruth Project Storehouse. Children begin a new chapter filled with hope and dignity.
Ongoing Support
Long-term support promotes long-term success.
Fostering can be a lonely, hard journey, causing over 50% of families to give up. Our intentional events are opportunities for new friendships both for our children in foster care and their foster families. We provide personal mentoring, training, and a place of refuge. Some of our events include Teen Hangouts, Toddler & Teas, Family Outings, Epic Nights, Dash & Dine Events, and more! Notes of encouragement, prayer, and gift cards are also given with generosity.
Community Connections
Thriving within communities gives families dignity and hope.
We love children in the foster system well when we rally around them. We partner with local churches to connect with children and families and share the hope of Christ for eternal impact. In addition, our community partnerships provide experts from lawyers to hairstylists to meet unique needs that otherwise may be overlooked. We abundantly love children by providing care, hope, dignity, and relief through community…through people like you.
Practical Provisions
Our Ruth Project Storehouse is an abundant shopping experience.
Crisp new wardrobes and toys to call their own begin the journey back to hope and dignity for children at The Ruth Project’s boutique-like Storehouse.
Foster families are gifted clothes, toys, and equipment in abundance. As children grow and seasons change, they can come back to shop over and over for any new needs. Families receive immediate and continuous practical relief through The Ruth Project Storehouse. Children begin a new chapter filled with hope and dignity.
Ongoing Support
Long-term support promotes long-term success.
Fostering can be a lonely, hard journey, causing over 50% of families to give up. Our intentional events are opportunities for new friendships both for our children in foster care and their foster families. We provide personal mentoring, training, and a place of refuge. Some of our events include Teen Hangouts, Toddler & Teas, Family Outings, Epic Nights, Dash & Dine Events, and more! Notes of encouragement, prayer, and gift cards are also given with generosity.
Community Connections
Thriving within communities gives families dignity and hope.
We love children in the foster system well when we rally around them. We partner with local churches to connect with children and families and share the hope of Christ for eternal impact. In addition, our community partnerships provide experts from lawyers to hairstylists to meet unique needs that otherwise may be overlooked. We abundantly love children by providing care, hope, dignity, and relief through community…through people like you.
Who We Are
Without a doubt, the journey to creating the Ruth Project was divinely planned. Tammy McMahan, the founder of the Ruth Project and foster parent to over 23 children since 2016, opened the first storehouse in November, 2020. But 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
Ruth Project Storehouse
