Join us for a fun evening in support of helping teens in foster care create lasting and life-changing relationships with caring adults. With your support, teens will meet the adults who become their mentors and host and adoptive families.
Wednesday October 7
Eastern Market (225 7th Street, SE; Washington, DC)
6:30 to 8:30 PM
Establishing Roots brings together a diverse group of people to meet one another and celebrate our mutual commitment to giving teens in foster care the gift of family.
Establishing Roots is a celebration - with food and drink, a silent auction, a chance to hear and learn from a DCFYI teen and volunteer. It's relaxed and fun!
If you can't attend but would like to support Establishing Roots, you can donate here.
Donate to the silent auction.
Thank you.
Thank you to the generous 2025 Establishing Roots sponsors!
Towering Tree ($5,000-$9,999)
The Nelson S. Talbott Foundation
Sustaining Stream ($2,500-$4,999)
Supportive Branch ($1,000-$2,499)
Sapling ($500-$999)
Seed ($250-$499)
Individual Sponsors
Sheltering Forest
Sam Maruca & Linda McKoy
Towering Tree
Kim Carnahan
Steve & Vicki Hart
Sustaining Stream
Anonymous
Gail Amidzich & Louis Barbash
Mark Belak
Susan & Bill Collet
Rhonda Fields
Karen Lightfoot
Supportive Branch
Stephanie Brun de Pontet
Jim & Susan Dykstra
Jackie Gillan & Ernie Beyard
Kate Hardiman
Marcela Monti
Lisa Reppell
Dawn Thomas
Kirk Victor
Kristi Walseth
Tanya Wedderburn
John Weinfurter
Kevin Xu
Sapling
Michele & Mark Adelson
Peggy Aulino
Saphira Baker
Andy & Abby Daughtridge
JoAnne Glisson
Wendy Harman
Michele Reed
Heather Schoell
Anne Summers & Alan Weiss
Suzanne Wells & Mike Godec
Seed
Nick Barbash & Larkin Barker
Ted Bornstein & Lesley Weiss
Vijay D'Souza
Kesha Forrest
Julie & Manuel Galdo
Lou Ivey
Jane Lang & Bob Kapp
LeeAnn Matthews
Alvina McHale
Pat & Walter Moore
Caleb Piatt & Angela Williams
Nancy Sonnenberg & Matthew Swartz
Fredda Sparks
Kelly Vielmo
Establishing Roots Honorary Co-Chairs
- Councilmember Charles Allen
- Councilmember Janeese Lewis George
- Councilmember Brianne Nadeau
- Councilmember Robert C. White, Jr.
- Senator Tammy Baldwin (WI)
- Senator Chuck Grassley (IA)
- Senator Tim Kaine (VA)
- Senator Angus King (ME) & Mary J. Herman, Esq.
- Representative Don Bacon (NE)
- Representative Erin Houchin (IN)
- Representative Susie Lee (NV)
- Representative Jim McGovern (MA)
- Representative Gwen Moore (WI)
- Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC)
- Representative Zach Nunn (IA)
- Representative Mary Gay Scanlon (PA)
- Representative Adrian Smith (NE)
- Representative Marc Veasey (TX)
Establishing Roots Committee
|
Gail Amidzich |
Arabella Kohlmeyer |
| Ticket | $50.00 |
| Student/Non-Profit/Young Professional | $35.00 |
| Well-Wisher | $100.00 |
| Seed | $250.00 |
| Sapling | $500.00 |
| Supportive Branch | $1,000.00 |
| Sustaining Stream | $2,500.00 |
| Towering Tree | $5,000.00 |
| Sheltering Forest | $10,000.00 |
| Optional Added Donation | |
| Additional Donation | $25.00 |
| Additional Donation | $50.00 |
| Additional Donation | $100.00 |
| Additional Donation | $200.00 |
| Additional Donation | $250.00 |
| Additional Donation | $500.00 |
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