About Foster Care Help Inc.

We can only accept donations after you contact the office at 937-770-2140 or email us at hello@cleancutohio.com to confirm a drop off time.  

We do not have a 24/7 drop off bin due to people dropping off car tires, batteries, large pieces of destroyed furniture etc in the past that contaminated donated items in the same bin making them un-usable by us here.  This not only destroys other donated items gifted to us from the community, but also costs us time and money to move and haul their "trash" to the dump in Moraine for them.  It is sad, but this happened more than a few times so for the for seeable future we would prefer donated items be dropped off during business hours Monday thru Saturday 8 A.M. - 5 P.M.

Items can be dropped off at our Miami Valley Donation Center located at 330 Carr Drive "Suite B" Brookville, Ohio.  

We may be able to pick up items from you if the donation makes sense for us to pickup, but please understand that paid labor, and volunteer labor both cost money and time that we have to be very conservative with.  

Moving trucks at 8 mpg also costs money that is very important to manage properly on our end.  We cannot spend 1-2 hours labor and $20 in fuel to pick up $20 of donated items.  

As much as we would like to be able to provide pick up service,  more often than not, the money we would spend picking up items can be better utilized by our organization in other areas typically, and it is important to us to make every single dollar go directly to those we need to care for directly.    

If you feel you have a donation large enough to justify our spending money and time resources please email us at hello@fostercarehelp.com and a representative will contact you as quickly as possible.

We understand there is a great need for resources in the community in areas outside of the Foster Care Community.  Our primary mission is to support those in Foster Care but we do donate items to others in need locally when we can, but only when there is an abundance of items so that those in the Foster Care Community do not go without.  Again, our goal is that no child is turned down for placement due to a fostering home not having adequate resources to accept the child into their home,  and unfortunately we are not large enough of an operation to support everyone, but will when we are able.  

Foster Care Help has been financially funded with seed money yearly since 2023 from Richard and Ashlee Davidson the ownership of Driven Enterprises Inc.  

We do not want cash donations unless that is the only possible way for you to support our organization.

We prefer that you buy items to donate, we ask this because we want 100%  Full Transparency within our organization, and donating items that can easily be entered into our donation system are always fully accounted for, cash and monetary donations create another set of complications and we would like to keep our operation as streamlined and efficient as possible.

We always VOLUNTEER for charitable organization audits that other organizations try to avoid,  and always invite the public into any audits so they know their donations to Foster Care Help are going directly to those in need.   These audits can only make us a better, more efficient operation which in the end allows us to do more of what we truly love doing in caring for the Foster Care Community. 

All donated items are sorted, cleaned, sanitized and then placed into Avah's Closet which is the online store Foster Parents can shop from and lists ALL donated items for them to choose from FREE of CHARGE.  We do sell items to the public at times to raise money for items we need and do not have, and also donate items to other Charitable Organizations that we know utilize them properly.  

We also donate to the general public that are not involved in Foster Care when we hear of sudden needs, house fires, medical and life events can turn a family upside down quickly, we may not always be able to help outside of the Foster Care Community, but when we can we surely do.

Fill Out Our Online Request For Assistance Form and please allow a few days for us to process it.  If you are in URGENT NEED please call the office and leave us a message, we will call you back as quickly as we can.  

All request for FREE ITEMS require us to verify that you have an active Ohio Foster Care License, and that you are or will soon have a Foster Child placement in your home. 

If we cannot verify this information we may not be able to help, in years past we have had many attempts to take advantage of us and our charity, it is our responsibility to always ensure that donated items are going to those in the Foster Care Community.

No, Foster Care Help will accept most donations, items that we cannot utilize or donate to Foster Care Families we can often sell to raise funding capital that is then used to purchase items in short supply whether it be diapers, formula, or a wide variety of common items that are seemingly impossible to keep in stock.

Our strangest donation to date was a farm tractor worth quite a bit that we were able to sell and buy almost an entire semi load of diapers with. 

With that said, we do have a list of Items We CANNOT ACCEPT due to the legalities of us being able to re-purpose/donate them, used mattresses, used undergarments, opened cans of formula, to name a few, to see a complete list of Items we cannot accept CLICK HERE.  

Foster Care Help has a website link to Avah's Closet that we send to them, we give them with each new child placement,  $100, $200, $300 worth of Store Credit FREE of CHARGE !  

They simply shop online and utilize the Store Credit towards anything they need to support the child/children in their home that are in the Foster Care System.  

** Please Note that their purchases are monitored by us carefully to ensure the items go directly to the Foster Child Placement.  If you have a 3 year old placement they cannot utilize Store Credit for adult clothing etc.  Anyone caught abusing the system can be denied service for any or no reason at all and this is a discretionary call on our part to protect our investments of time and assets that we donate to families **

It is our policy that all donated items "FOLLOW THE CHILD", they are able to take anything we gift to them to their next Foster Home, and even in the event they are re-united with their biological family it is our desire that all donated items go with the child.

We also if the child outgrows items, or the need is no longer present, ask that the Foster Home donate those items back to us so they can be re-sorted, cleaned, sanitized, and re-gifted when possible.