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Sarah Franco and the family that kept growing
For 32 years, Sarah Franco helped turn JAFCO from a kitchen-table operation into a network of homes and support for children. Her retirement brought the work back to a question that had shaped her own family: who will be there?
Family Equality turned a barbecue into a family movement
A vacation gathering in Provincetown became a national ritual. Behind the beach days is a nonprofit working on the harder question: who gets to be recognised as a family?
Felicia Curcuru Found the Future of Child Welfare in a 70-Column Spreadsheet
She began with families, rebuilt around social workers, and turned four months of patient observation into software used by more than 550 agencies. Her enduring product lesson is also her simplest: follow the sticky notes.
The Wedding Registry for Shelter Pets Is Run by an NFL Referee
John Hussey officiated Super Bowl XLV. His day job is a Seal Beach platform that has routed more than $100 million to 4,600 animal rescues - by selling them dog food instead of taking a cut of their donations.
Binti
Binti is a San Francisco-based software company building modern workflow tools for the child welfare system. Its cloud platform helps social workers license foster and adoptive families, find kin, manage cases, coordinate service referrals, and meet federal reporting requirements. Used by more than 550 agencies across 36 states plus D.C. - covering roughly half of children in U.S. foster care - Binti aims to reduce paperwork so caseworkers can spend more time helping children find safe, stable, loving families.