- link Copy Url - [ Share on twitter ](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Keeping Dave Thomas’ Legacy Alive and You Can Help https://www.3blmedia.com/markdownify/node/201751?absolute=1&via=3blnews "link to 3 B L Media's Twitter") - [ Share on linkedin ](https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://www.3blmedia.com/markdownify/node/201751?absolute=1 "link to 3 B L Media's Linkedin") - [ Share on facebook ](https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https://www.3blmedia.com/markdownify/node/201751?absolute=1 "link to 3 B L Media's Facebook") - [ email Share via email ](mailto:?subject=Keeping Dave Thomas’ Legacy Alive and You Can Help&body=ESG News from Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption https://www.3blmedia.com/markdownify/node/201751?absolute=1 "Share via email") [Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives](/CSR-News/philanthropy-cause-initiatives) # Keeping Dave Thomas’ Legacy Alive and You Can Help Jul 2, 2018 12:00 PM ET Campaign: [DTFA: Foster Care Adoption Awareness](/news/campaign/dtfa-foster-care-adoption-awareness) ![](/sites/default/files/styles/carousel_2x/public/images/Dave_with_Kids_USE_THIS_ONE.jpg) ![](/sites/default/files/styles/carousel_2x/public/images/CEO_Dave.jpg) ![](/sites/default/files/styles/carousel_2x/public/images/000000954.jpg) ![](/sites/default/files/styles/carousel_2x/public/images/98a30db1c9b017336c69c0594fb8e332.jpg) ![](/sites/default/files/styles/carousel_2x/public/images/000001058.jpg) ![](/sites/default/files/styles/carousel_thumbnail_x2/public/images/Dave_with_Kids_USE_THIS_ONE.jpg?h=53b41adf) ![](/sites/default/files/styles/carousel_thumbnail_x2/public/images/CEO_Dave.jpg?h=4de69ae3) ![](/sites/default/files/styles/carousel_thumbnail_x2/public/images/000000954.jpg?h=c9f93661) ![](/sites/default/files/styles/carousel_thumbnail_x2/public/images/98a30db1c9b017336c69c0594fb8e332.jpg?h=cdde21a2) ![](/sites/default/files/styles/carousel_thumbnail_x2/public/images/000001058.jpg?h=0429cc9e) Today the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption celebrates our founder, Dave Thomas on what would have been his 86th birthday. Mr. Thomas was respected for being a talented businessman and a caring philanthropist; his unceasing desire to improve the lives of North America’s most vulnerable children was arguably his greatest contribution to society. In honor of Dave Thomas, his Foundation will continue to commit itself to the vision he set forth: to make ensure a loving, permanent family for every child. The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption has one mission: to dramatically increase the number of adoptions from foster care. While Mr. Thomas was not alive to see the creation of the Foundation’s adoption program, Wendy’s Wonderful Kids, it’s a certainty he would be proud of the work done that has found loving families for more than 7,200 children in the United States and Canada. The Wendy’s Wonderful Kids program allows the Foundation to give funds to adoption agencies, which use those funds to hire specially-trained adoption recruiters. Those recruiters' sole responsibility is to find loving, adoptive homes for the children they serve. Wendy’s Wonderful Kids recruiters focus on older children, sibling groups and children with special needs because those are the children most at risk of not being adopting. If you’d like to help keep the legacy of Dave Thomas alive, please join our mission, but pledging your support for our nation’s most vulnerable youth. As Dave, would say, “These children are not someone else’s’ responsibility. They are our responsibility.” [Show your support here.](https://secure3.convio.net/dtfa/site/Donation2?idb=1491580794&1400.donation=form1&df_id=1400&mfc_pref=T&idb=0) [![](/sites/default/files/Clients/DTFA_Logo_no_tag_rgb.png)](/profiles/dave-thomas-foundation-adoption) ### More from Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption ###### [You Are Never Too Old for Family. How Adopting a Teenager Can Change a Life](/news/you-are-never-too-old-family-how-adopting-teenager-can-change-life) Mar 6, 2019 10:00 AM ET ###### [You Don’t Have to Have All the Answers to Be a Parent](/news/you-dont-have-have-all-answers-be-parent) Mar 1, 2019 10:00 AM ET ###### [Celebrating Family and Helping Others to Create Theirs](/news/celebrating-family-and-helping-others-create-theirs) Jan 25, 2019 10:00 AM ET ###### [Family is a Feeling](/news/family-feeling) Jan 22, 2019 10:00 AM ET ###### [They Know They Have a Forever Family](/news/they-know-they-have-forever-family) Jan 17, 2019 10:00 AM ET ###### [Wendy’s Wonderful Kids Recruiters Work From the Heart](/news/wendys-wonderful-kids-recruiters-work-heart) Jan 15, 2019 10:00 AM ET ###### [I Thought I’d Never Have Love: Teenager Maci Kean Finds Forever Family](/news/i-thought-id-never-have-love-teenager-maci-kean-finds-forever-family) Jan 11, 2019 10:00 AM ET ###### [Never Too Old for Family](/news/never-too-old-family) Jan 4, 2019 10:00 AM ET