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FOM2023 - Week 14: Make It Home

We've kicked off Week 14 of the FŌM2023 season by #playingitforward for Make It Home! Make it Home is an organization that provides gently used furniture and household goods to newly-housed foster kids, formerly homeless families, and individuals who would otherwise move into an empty apartment. By providing furnishings to those...

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FOM2023 - Week 13: Gateway Children's Services

We've kicked off Week 13 of the FŌM2023 season by #playingitforward for Gateway Children's Services! Gateway Children's Services offers a wide range of services and programs for Kentucky's children and their families. They provide therapeutic services, on-site psychiatric services, individual/group/family therapy, on-site school, on-site medical care, outpatient substance abuse programs and...

FOM2023 - Week 12: HOPE Farm

We've kicked off Week 12 of the FŌM2023 season by #playingitforward for HOPE Farm! HOPE Farm is an organization in Fort Worth and Dallas, TX that mentors boys from single-parent homes who lack a positive male influence in their lives. Their long-term leadership development program guides at-risk boys from the time...

Quick and Easy Ways to Get Your Students Moving!

With Expert Jennifer Duffy

The attention span of a typical child is two - three minutes for each year of age. You read that correctly. This means that a typical kindergartener can focus on a task for only 10-15 minutes. A 10 year-old can attend to an activity for 20 -30 minutes and...

FOM2023 - Week 11: InSports Foundation

We've kicked off Week 11 of the FŌM2023 season by #playingitforward for InSports Foundation! The InSports Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Minnesota with a mission to help more kids participate in sports. InSports provides financial assistance and sporting opportunities for kids to get in the game, enabling them to...

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Press Release: Expansion in Pueblo, CO

FOM2023 - Week 10: Olive Crest

We've kicked off Week 10 of the FŌM2023 season by #playingitforward for Olive Crest! Olive Crest is a Christian organization dedicated to preventing child abuse by strengthening, equipping, and restoring children and families in crisis. They work with kids in the foster system to provide them with resources and foster families,...

FOM2023 - Week 9: The Mayfly Project

We've kicked off Week 9 of the FŌM2023 season by #playingitforward for The Mayfly Project! The Mayfly Project is an organization that uses fly fishing as a catalyst to mentor children in foster care. Their mission is to support children in foster care through fly fishing and introduce them to their...

FOM2023 - Week 8: Payton Patterson

We've kicked off Week 8 of the FŌM2023 season by #playingitforward for Payton Patterson! Meet Payton, a 4-year old from Ravenna, MI who was recently diagnosed with a genetic brain disease called CLN2. She started experiencing seizures a year ago and her mother, Amanda, fought tirelessly for a diagnosis. Children with...

FOM2023 - Week 7: Love For A Child

We've kicked off Week 7 of the FŌM2023 season by #playingitforward for Love For A Child! Love For A Child is a faith focused, non-profit organization that serves children, youth, and families currently active within Michigan's foster care system. 120 children are selected every summer for a completely free week of...

FOM2023 - Week 6: Pink Ribbon Good

We've kicked off Week 6 of the FŌM2023 season by #playingitforward for Pink Ribbon Good! Pink Ribbon Good exists to serve every person and family affected by breast and gynecological cancer. The organization began in Cincinnati, OH and has now spread across the country. They provide healthy meals, rides to treatment,...

#AtOurCore: Meet Derrick!

Welcome back to another segment of #AtOurCore, where we chat with a member of our Fōmcore family and get to know them better. This week we sat down with Derrick, who has been a part of our team for over a year. Let’s get to know him a little bit...

FOM2023 - Week 5: Noah Hardy

We've kicked off Week 5 of the FŌM2023 season by #playingitforward for Noah Hardy! Meet Noah, an 8-year-old from Grand Rapids, MI who has faced health challenges since birth. Noah has been diagnosed with Crouzon Syndrome, a condition that leads to the deformation of facial bones, resulting in breathing difficulties and...

FOM2023 - Week 4: Camp Cole

We've kicked off Week 4 of the FŌM2023 season by #playingitforward for Camp Cole! Camp Cole's mission is to bring joy to children, teens, and adults with illnesses, disabilities, and other life circumstances that may not be ideal. Camp Cole is named in memory of Cole Sawyer, an 11-year-old boy who...

Revisiting: What Spirit Should it Have?

With Expert David Jakes

At EdSpaces 2022 conference in Portland last fall, I saw a presentation entitled “The Surprising Ways Students Use Spaces” where the presenters showcased, among other things, some of their community engagement strategies. One survey question they asked students to respond to caught my attention: “At this school, I get to do...

FOM2023 - Week 3: Stacy Knight

We've kicked off Week 3 of the FŌM2023 season by #playingitforward for Stacy Knight! Stacy is a mother of two beautiful children who has been diagnosed with breast cancer. She has been out of work for almost a year now. She has always been a hard-working provider for her children, and...

FOM2023 - Week 2: Retrieving Freedom

We've kicked off Week 2 of the FŌM2023 season by #playingitforward for Retrieving Freedom! The mission of Retrieving Freedom, Inc. is to change lives through the training and placement of Service Dogs for Veterans with disabilities and children with autism. They breed and train chosen dogs that exhibit specific traits necessary...

FOM2023 - Week 1: Josiah Kosachuk

We've kicked off Week 1 of the FŌM2023 season by #playingitforward for Josiah Kosachuk! Josiah works as a sewer in the Upholstery Department at Tiara Yachts in Holland, MI. On the morning of January 18, 2023, while riding his bicycle to work in the morning, he was hit by a car....

FOM2023 - Preseason: Fresh Coast Alliance

We've kicked off the preseason for the FŌM2023 season by #playingitforward for Fresh Coast Alliance! Fresh Coast Alliance is doing incredible work in the greater Muskegon community to work with those affected by incarceration and addiction to transforming lives in Christ. They partner with over 30 agencies, 18 employers, and 14...

#AtOurCore: Meet V!

Welcome back to another segment of #AtOurCore, where we chat with a member of our Fōmcore family and get to know them better. This week we sat down with V, who has been a part of our team since 2020. Let’s get to know her a little bit better! How long...