(May 2008) Ann Wrixon, the Independent Adoption Center's executive director, announced the launch of a major fundraising drive in support of the most ambitious birthparent advocacy campaign that IAC has ever undertaken. The campaign is designed to increase the number of young adults who, when experiencing an unplanned pregnancy, are: empowered in their decision-making process, aware of open adoption as one of their choices, and, should they choose to place their child for adoption, will consider open adoption and IAC.
The campaign was developed to address the fact that the vast majority of women who experience an unplanned pregnancy are unaware of adoption as one of their choices and are unaware that research continues to confirm that open adoption is the healthiest form of adoption. The campaign will reach its target audience through a highly informative, network quality television commercial that will be produced by Zystar Films, an award-winning, LA-based, television production company. The total cost of the campaign is $280,000, which includes $80,000 to produce the ad and $100,000, each of the first two years, to purchase television broadcast time, nationally. Funds are being raised through individual donations, corporations, and foundations.
To learn more, please read the press release and proposal (found below) and then go to the Donate Now page to make a tax-deductible contribution. Thank you!
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About IAC
Founded in 1982, IAC is a licensed, nonprofit, counseling-based open adoption agency. In addition to being the largest and one of the oldest fully open adoption agencies in the U.S., IAC is an open adoption advocate. All birthparent services are free and include: non-directive pregnancy options counseling, comprehensive lifetime counseling support, needs assessment, and referral to appropriate services. IAC is one of the only adoption agencies in the country that has never had any exclusionary policies for adoptive parents, including age, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, ethnic background, color, or race.
