From AZ Helping Hands to The Foster Alliance

As you may or may not know, we’ve changed our name, and AZ Helping Hands is now The Foster Alliance! When AZ Helping Hands (AHH) began 27 years ago, it had a broad mission – to help the community in any way possible. This rebranding celebrates our refined focus to support the foster care community by providing essentials to benefit children in foster care. Essentials continue to be beds, cribs, shoes, clothing, diapers, pull-ups, hygiene kits, footlockers, as well as birthday and holiday gifts.

Our new brand isn’t about flowery names, pretty colors, and fun fonts; it’s about telling the story of who we really are here at The Foster Alliance (TFA). After extensive research we learned a few things about how our supporters, foster families, and our community partners see us. We also learned about who we are striving to become.

We are:

COMPASSIONATE: We operate from a space of understanding and care while providing a welcoming environment for all: foster families and their kiddos, volunteers, investors, and fellow professionals.

HUMAN: We understand that life is hard and complicated at times. We celebrate our community; the children and youth we serve, those who open their hearts, and those who open their homes.

INNOVATIVE: We listen and learn to become the organization the foster community needs today and in the future. “How might we,” is how we lead.

Finally, you may be wondering, “Why Alliance?” Many times, we have heard that it takes a village to raise a child and when children and youth are in foster care because of the significant complexities – we find it takes a strong and connected community – aligned together. Together we can provide “more than just enough” and together, foster kiddos win. Truly a common goal!

Our common goal – reaching more foster families and their kiddos because we believe every child on a foster care journey deserves a safe place to sleep, to be celebrated on their birthday, and to have a caring community supporting their foster family.

To this end, in 2024 we were able to serve more than 8600 children in Arizona’s foster care system. A record number keeping TFA as the largest provider of essential services to children in foster care in Arizona. We do our work through locations in both Phoenix and Flagstaff, and… to keep us moving forward, we are now raising funds and serving the foster community in New Mexico – officially as of February 2025!

We know, everyday foster, and kinship families count on TFA to be their partner. In return, we count on generous support from kind and compassionate people like you. We believe, “when they need us, where they need us” – we will show up which is why we now have multiple locations as well as two mobile units.