Foundation Highlights
2005 Archives

Grant Helps Reunite Children with Families Following Katrina

The Freddie Mac Foundation awarded the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® a $100,000 grant for its efforts in locating and reuniting the more than 4,850 children missing or displaced from their families due to Hurricane Katrina.
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Foundation Launches Heart Gallery Portraying Foster Children

The Freddie Mac Foundation Heart Gallery, a traveling exhibit of photographic portraits of Washington metropolitan region foster children in need of adoption, has made its debut. The Heart Gallery's launch at Union Station in Washington, DC, marks the start of National Adoption Awareness Month. View online Heart Gallery.
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Data Show 38 Percent Increase in Interest in Adoption Among Women

A study funded by the Freddie Mac Foundation finds that interest in adoption among women ages 18-44 rose 38 percent in the United States between 1995 and 2002 (from 13 million to 18 million). The data comes from a survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The analysis was conducted by the Urban Institute and commissioned by the National Adoption Day Coalition.
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Foundation Helps Open Evening Child Care Program for Homeless

Bright Beginnings Child Care Center, the only full-day, free child care center serving D.C.'s homeless families, is adding an evening child care program, made possible by a $300,000 grant from the Freddie Mac Foundation.
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Foundation Joins Congressional Members in Assembling 'Care Packages' for 2,500 Former Foster Youth

The Freddie Mac Foundation joined The Orphan Foundation of America, Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton, Michael DeWine, Elizabeth Dole and Patty Murray, their staff and volunteers from national organizations to prepare "care packages" for 2,500 college students who had aged out of foster care.
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Major Foundation Grant Helps Local Katrina Families

As part of its $5 million relief commitment, the Freddie Mac Foundation gave a $475,000 grant to Catholic Community Services to help hurricane survivors who relocated to the D.C. region.
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Foundation Announces $1 Million Fund for Foster Children Affected by Hurricane Katrina

The Freddie Mac Foundation is continuing its work in support of the nation's foster children by committing $1 million to help the nearly 4,000 foster children who are victims of Hurricane Katrina along the gulf coast. The Katrina Fund for Foster Children is part of the Foundation's $5 million donation to help ease the burden for the thousands of families affected by Hurricane Katrina.
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Foundation Funds Teen's Effort to Send Duffel Bags to Displaced Katrina Victims

As part of its $5 million commitment to helping victims of Hurricane Katrina, the Freddie Mac Foundation recently donated $50,000 to its long-time grantee Children to Children, an organization that provides foster children nation-wide with duffel bags to carry their belonging from home to home. The grant will allow the group, headed by 14-year old Makenzie Snyder, to broaden its reach to help during this time of national crisis and send more than 6,000 duffel bags for victims of Hurricane Katrina.
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Foundation, Congress Recognize Adoption Heroes at Annual Gala

As it has for several years, the Freddie Mac Foundation joined members of Congress in recognizing "Angels in Adoption," individuals who have made a difference in children's lives through adoption or adoption advocacy.
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Freddie Mac Foundation Funds Study, Report on Self-Sufficiency

A new study sponsored by the Freddie Mac Foundation and released by Wider Opportunities for Women finds that the combined impact of housing prices and escalating health and child care costs are making it more and more difficult for families in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area to make ends meet. The study and resulting report also provide the blueprint for transitioning families to self-sufficiency.
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Foundation Donates $5 Million to Support Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts

The Freddie Mac Foundation along with Freddie Mac are helping ease the burden for the thousands of families displaced along the gulf coast by Hurricane Katrina by donating $10 million to aid organizations supporting relief efforts, half of which is coming from the Foundation.
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Foundation Invests Nearly $5.5 Million to Enrich the Lives of Children

During the first six months of 2005, the Freddie Mac Foundation continued to strengthen communities by awarding nearly $5.5 million in grants to organizations whose innovative programs help better the lives of children and families, primarily in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, including Crossway Community in Maryland, Stop Child Abuse Now of Northern Virginia, and Children's Law Center in the District.
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Foundation Sponsors Congressional Briefing on Adoption, Youth Panel

At a Congressional Briefing sponsored by the Freddie Mac Foundation on July 13, 2005, United States Senate Finance Committee Chairman, Chuck Grassley and Senator Hillary R. Clinton released the findings from a new Government Accountability Report (GAO) on adoption. The briefing also featured a panel of four youth adopted from the foster care system who shared their experiences and thoughts on adoption legislation.
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$550,000 Grant Expands Transitional Housing to More Homeless Families

The Freddie Mac Foundation made a $550,000 grant to help the Center for Multicultural Human Services (CMHS) acquire five additional transitional housing units, which will provide 16 more homeless families in Northern Virginia – many of them recent immigrants – with safe housing and intensive support services. CMHS and the Foundation announced the program expansion during a housewarming at one of the five recently acquired homes.
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Children's Hospital Receives Support for Abused Children

Over the past year, Children's Hospital has received grants totaling $200,000 from the Freddie Mac Foundation to continue its efforts to help heal abused and neglected children at the Freddie Mac Foundation Child and Adolescent Protection Center. This support was recognized during WUSA Channel 9's annual Children's Miracle Network telethon in Washington, DC.
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Foundation Helps At-Risk Youth Attend Re-opened Summer Camp

A total of 1,000 youth will be able to get out of the city this summer to attend camp thanks to the re-opening of Camp Brown, a summer camp that serves at-risk D.C. area youth. The Freddie Mac Foundation joined Metropolitan Police Chief Charles Ramsey and Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Washington officials in announcing the summer camp program, which was shuttered last year due to lack of funding.
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Baseball Tickets Donated for Local Kids

The Freddie Mac Foundation is donating 50 tickets to each Washington Nationals home game to needy DC children. At a recent weekly briefing, Mayor Anthony A. Williams announced the Foundation's donation. Maxine B. Baker, President and CEO of the Freddie Mac Foundation, made the presentation to the Mayor and to a number of children assembled at the briefing.
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$1 Million Grant to Help Build School for Severely Disabled Children

The Foundation has made a $1 million grant to help St. Coletta of Greater Washington build a new school slated to open in mid-2006 in southeast Washington, D.C.. St. Coletta is the area's most prominent school and resource for children and adults with moderate to severe cognitive disabilities. The new school will serve children with mental retardation and autism in their own community.
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Foster Families Honored at Annual Gala

During the third annual Foster Parent Appreciation Gala, the Freddie Mac Foundation joined the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments to pay tribute to hundreds of foster parents who help make a difference in the lives of 6,000 foster children in the metropolitan Washington region.
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Foundation Invests Over $16 Million In Programs That Strengthen Communities For Children And Families

In 2004, the Freddie Mac Foundation continued to strengthen communities by awarding more than $16 million in grants to organizations whose innovative programs help better the lives of children and families in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, in the cities of Freddie Mac's regional offices and across the nation.
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Partnership With Healthy Families Loudoun Celebrates Lasting Effects

Mothernet/Healthy Families Loudoun, one of 10 sites that the Freddie Mac Foundation helped open in the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area, recently celebrated its 10-year anniversary and partnership with the Foundation. To celebrate, we visited a family in Leesburg that has benefited from our support.
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New Regional Programs to Help Area's 6,000 Foster Children

Foster children in metropolitan Washington will have more loving families equipped to care for them as a result of the Work of Heart Regional Recruitment Initiative, a new effort funded by the Foundation and run by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG). The initiative will recruit more foster parents and provide them with additional support in the form of regular respite offered by volunteers.
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Freddie Mac Foundation Board Elects Ralph F. Boyd, Jr. Chairman

The Freddie Mac Foundation board of directors elected Ralph F. Boyd, Jr. to be chairman of the Foundation's board. Boyd also serves as Freddie Mac's executive vice president of Community Relations, responsible for the Washington, DC region's largest philanthropic program. Boyd replaces Freddie Mac Chairman and CEO Richard F. Syron, who remains on the Foundation board but resigned as its chair to focus more attention on key issues facing the company.
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Foundation Donates to Child-Related Tsunami Relief Charities in South Asia

The Freddie Mac Foundation is contributing $100,000 to several children-related relief charities to help with the effects of the devastating tsunami in South Asia and is also matching approximately $60,000, to date, in tsunami relief donations made by Freddie Mac employees.
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