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Source: Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH), Global Statistics for Intercountry Adoption 2004–2022, compiled by Peter Selman, Newcastle University (2024).
The Ties Foundation, a new 501(c)(3) nonprofit, begins public fundraising Sept 1 to fund origin journeys, therapy, and community for adult intercountry adoptees. Grantmaking begins early 2027.
Executive Director Ian Forber-Pratt is available for interviews. Contact info below.
Worth Getting Right
These are easy to conflate in a headline, and worth double-checking before one runs.
A heritage-travel company, co-owned by Ben and Tanya Kaanta, that has taken adoptees and their families back to their birth countries for more than 30 years — over 8,000 families served.
A new, separate nonprofit that funds that same kind of return — plus therapy and identity/community support — for adoptees who couldn’t otherwise access or afford it.
At a Glance
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The Ties Foundation is a Colorado-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that funds heritage travel, therapy, and identity support for adult intercountry adoptees — support that exists for almost none of the estimated 1.1 million people placed through intercountry adoption worldwide since the 1950s. The Foundation opened public fundraising on September 1, 2026, and begins grantmaking early 2027. It is a separate organization from The Ties Program, the for-profit heritage-travel company it grew out of. Learn more at thetiesfoundation.org.
Quotable
“I spent twenty-five years on the front end of child welfare, in nineteen countries, watching how much care goes into the moment a child is placed — and how little goes into the decades after. The Ties Foundation exists to fund those decades.”Ian Forber-Pratt · Executive Director, an intercountry adoptee himself, adopted from India
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