EOEncourage One Another
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About Encourage One Another
Foster and adoptive families need support that continues beyond a single event. Since 2017, Encourage One Another in Arlington, Texas, has created regular opportunities for families to find encouragement, fellowship, practical tips, and time to strengthen relationships. Your support helps foster and adoptive families stay connected, keep families intact, and thrive while caring for children who need support outside the home.
Encourage One Another focuses specifically on the relationships around foster and adoptive families. Its recurring gatherings include two retreat weekends each year, monthly dinners, special events, couples activities, and family support for children living in therapeutic residential homes.
Programs
The concrete work this nonprofit runs. Each program may later become a fundable project.
Retreat weekends
Two retreats per year provide refreshment, encouragement, and practical tips for foster and adoptive families.
Monthly dinners
Monthly dinners support and encourage adoptive and foster families.
Special events
Special events provide support, encouragement, fellowship, and opportunities for foster and adoptive families to connect.
Couples activities
Activities designed to help couples build empowering relationships with each other.
Family support for children in therapeutic residential homes
Family support for kids who need to live outside the home in a therapeutic residential home.
About this work
Mission
Support and encourage foster and adoptive families in various ways in order to keep families intact and help them thrive.
Who they serve
Foster and adoptive families, including foster and adoptive mothers, couples, and children.
How your donation helps
- Retreat weekends for foster and adoptive families
- Monthly dinners and special events for foster and adoptive families
Need help?
How someone in need can access Encourage One Another’s services.
Foster and adoptive families can contact Ashley Mason by email or phone to learn more about available activities and support.
In their words
And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. And let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but Encourage One Another - and all the more as you see the Day approaching. Hebrews 10:24-25
Grant support
$190,000 from 1 funder · through 2024 (IRS 990 records).
- THE 1687 FOUNDATION — $50,000 (2024)DONATION
- THE 1687 FOUNDATION — $50,000 (2022)DONATION
- THE 1687 FOUNDATION — $15,000 (2021)DONATION
- THE 1687 FOUNDATION — $35,000 (2020)DONATION
- THE 1687 FOUNDATION — $40,000 (2019)DONATION
Events
Retreat weekends
Twice per yearRetreats offer refreshment, encouragement, and practical tips for foster and adoptive families.
Ladies dinners
Dates varyDinner, fellowship, and encouragement for adoptive and foster mothers.
Mom & Kids Swim Day
Dates varyFoster and adoptive mothers and their children gather for fellowship, food, and pool activities.
Couples activities
Dates varyActivities such as cookouts, Christmas parties, and retreats help couples build relationships and spend time together.
Men's Breakfast
Date variesA breakfast and fellowship gathering for men.
Ways to help
Concrete needs and volunteer roles Encourage One Another has shared.
Volunteer opportunities
- Get in touch with Encourage One Another to learn more about how to get involved.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about this nonprofit and how its work happens.
What do retreat weekends provide?
Retreat weekends offer foster and adoptive families time for refreshment, encouragement, and practical tips.
What are the couples activities intended to do?
They help couples build empowering relationships with each other.
What happens at a Mom & Kids Swim Day?
Foster and adoptive mothers share fellowship while their children take part in pool activities. Food and drinks are provided at the listed events.
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