Fertility Resources

Find support and encouragement from others regarding adoption.

Adoption Forums

Adoptive Families, the award-winning national adoption magazine, is the leading adoption information source for families before, during, and after adoption.

Adoptive Families

Extensive website providing research, analysis and education to practitioners and the public about current legislation and practices governing domestic and international adoption in the United States, Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa.

Center for Adoption Policy

A non-profit organization dedicated to providing support and education to everyone in the adoption community.

Center for Adoption Support

A non-profit, licensed adoption agency whose goal is to help people make informed decisions about adoption.

Friends in Adoption

You may be able to take a tax credit for qualifying expenses paid to adopt an eligible child (including a child with special needs)

IRS Adoption Credit

Jewish parents hoping to adopt, Jewish adoption professionals, forums full of adoption information for Jewish families, an adoption registry to search for Jewish birth families, waiting kids, scriptures, poetry, family stories, and much more.

Jewish Adoption

Jewish Adoption and Foster Care Options, Inc. (JAFCO) is a nonprofit agency established in April 1992 providing one less obstacle in the healing process by providing a child with a familiar cultural and religious environment.

JAFCO

Their inspiration comes from the belief that there is no unwanted child, only unfound families. From that they provide the following free adoptive services: Public Awareness and Recruitment, Information and Referral and Publications.

National Adoption Center

The New York State Adoption Service is the focus of adoption services in the Division of Development and Prevention Services which is a division of The Office of Children and Family Services

New York State Adoption Services

Dedicated to providing adoption-related services to children of color, their birth parents and adoptive parents.

PACT, An Adoption Alliance

US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is the government agency that oversees lawful immigration to the United States of America.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration

This website provides guidance to families considering adoption and also for families of adopted children by offering books on all facets of adoption.

Tapestry Books

An article by Ellen Singer, LCSW-C, Adoption Program Specialist at The Center for Adoption Support and Education, Inc on "Talking with Children Conceived Through Donor Insemination, IVF with Egg Donor or Surrogacy".

The Donor Sibling Registry

Created for parents and parents-to-be, by parents and parents-to-be to provide useful information and guidance when using an egg donor.

Parents via Egg Donation

Embryo storage, semen store, oocyte storage, donor embryos, embryo donation, fertility preservation, administration and shipment of cryopreserved gametes, embryos & tissue.

ReproTech Limited

Videos, FAQs and stories of families who have donated and those now parenting received donated embryos.

Embryo Adoption Awareness Campaign

A non-profit organization dedicated to providing valuable and up-to-date information on all aspects of embryo donation, as well as offering embryo donors and recipients the opportunity to find each other and allowing them the freedom to work out the details on their own terms.

Miracles Waiting - Embryo Donation

A non-profit organization whose mission is to protect the lives and dignity of human embryos by promoting, facilitating and educating about embryo donation and adoption.

National Embryo Donation Center (NEDC)

The ARC website seeks to be the definitive resource for potential patients and other members of the public to understand infertility and its related conditions, locate a physician and other resources for diagnosis and treatment of infertility (via IVF, ICSI, IUI etc.), become aware of the benefits, programs and services offered by ARC and its Member physicians and provide access to these offerings of ARC, called "The ARC Fertility Program"®

Advanced Reproductive Care, Inc.

Angels of Hope, Inc., was created in July 2005 to serve as beacons of hope for those suffering from the emotional and physical absence of a child. Twice a year, in April and September, the Angels of Hope Foundation dispenses its Creating Miracles Grant to financially burdened couples in Illinois who need fertility treatments to conceive a child.

The Angels of Hope Foundation – Creating Miracles Grant

BabyQuest Foundation is a non-profit organization whose goal is to grant financial assistance to those who cannot afford infertility treatments such as IUI, IVF, egg donation, and surrogacy. Applications are accepted from heterosexual, same sex couples, and singles.

BabyQuest Foundation

Bonei Olam's mission is to help couples that are experiencing infertility realize their dreams of enjoying these moments. Provides financial assistance for fertility treatments.

Bonei Olam

Offers support and help to people dealing with infertility.

INCIID

Jewish Family and Children’sService of Greater Philadelphia (JFCS) has a fund to help Jewish individuals and families who are confronted with infertility and the financial burden of fertility treatments that are not covered by insurance. To learn about the qualifications and how to apply call 866.JFCS.NOW or visit our website.

The JFCS Fertility Fund

Since 1995, the Foundation has been a dream come true for many childless couples in the greater Cincinnati, OH area. By helping them counter involuntary childlessness and ease the costly financial burden associated with In Vitro Fertilization treatment, the Foundation has brought life and restored happiness to numerous families.

The Madeleine Gordon Gift of Life Foundation

Pay it Forward Fertility Foundation works with their Partner Fertility Clinics to help couples who otherwise would not be able to achieve their dream of a family without financial assistance. Working with partner clinics who offer discounts to qualified grant and assistance recipients, they havehelped to deliver the miracle of life with 18 babies born from treatments using the program.

Pay It Forward Fertility Foundation

PUAH Institute is comprised of individuals who are world-renowned experts in the field of fertility medicine and Jewish Law, working in tandem under the leadership of a Rabbi.

PUAH Institute

TQCF is a non profit organization that serves the needs of families battling infertility. The TQCF also provides financial assistance to families pursuing infertility treatment or domestic adoption through the Tinina Q. Cade Foundation Family Building Grant (Deadline for scholarship is Sept. 15, 2009 $10,000 grant for infertility or adoption). This dual approach distinguishes the foundation as the only organization of its kind in the nation.

TQCF

This Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center provides a home for the birth, nurture and celebration of our organizations, institutions and culture; cares for our individuals and groups in need; educates the public and our community; and empowers our individuals and groups to achieve their fullest potential.

Center For Kids

Through advocacy, support and educational activities, advances the well being of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender parents and their families. Promises positive public policy for families of LGBT families. Provides written guide to starting local LGBT parenting groups.

Family Pride Coalition

An organizations that has had a vital role in the success of New Jersey's LGBT rights movement.

Garden State Equality

GayParentsToBe is an informational resource and link to gay parenting services. We strive to provide the best care for LGBTQ couples and individuals as they navigate all of the options to bring a child into the world and their homes. To better serve our LGBT community, Reproductive Medicine Associates of CT launched GayParentsToBe to more completely address the unique challenges same-sex couples and LGBT solo parents face when building their family. Our Connecticut and New York locations are supportive of gay, lesbian and transgender couples as well as individual parents by choice. Working with an established professional network, including gestational carrier (surrogate), egg donor and sperm donor agencies, we provide full service care to help you realize your dream of building a family.

Gay Parents To Be

Promotes the health and well being of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered persons, their families and friends through support, education and advocacy.

PFLAG

Providing community support for gay and lesbian members and their families.

Proud Parenting