In The News
May 13. 2025
A networking and education event for those working in foster care was held at the Harrelson Center today in Wilmington. The event titled “Anchored in Advocacy” was hosted by the Cape Fear Guardian Ad Litem Association and the Foster Pantry.
Foster parents, volunteers, staff with local nonprofits, and social workers were in attendance.
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July 13, 2023 Over 12,000 children are in foster care in North Carolina right now because of abuse, neglect or dependency. Many of those children come into foster care with only the clothes on their backs. That’s where the Foster Pantry, a non-profit organization in Wilmington, steps in.
July 7th, 2024 - Local foster care organizations teamed up to host a resource fair at The Point 14 movie theater in Wilmington on Saturday.
The resource fair coincides with a screening of “Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot,” a film about a bishop and his wife who adopt 77 of the most difficult-to-place children in the foster care system in the small town of Possum Trot, TX.
August 7, 2022 A non-profit created to help foster parents through support and resources helped families get ready for the upcoming school season.The Foster Pantry held a back-to-school event full of school supplies, clothes and even princesses and pirates.
October 30, 2024
What started as a group of foster parents collecting used clothing items and storing stuff for each other in one family's garage eventually turned into a local 501c3 nonprofit organization ― Foster Pantry.
Help foster kids have an egg-celent Easter with Basket Bonanza!
March 2018
Zen Rosen is a senior at Hoggard High School and as part of his senior project, he’s teamed up with Foster Pantry, a community closet for foster parents. The goal for Basket Bonanza is to have a stuffed Easter basket or backpack for every child in the New Hanover County Foster care system.
December 15, 2018
“We kept seeing over and over again that they were just coming with the clothes on their back," Klinefelter says, "You hear the horror trash bag stories and it was just something we needed to change.”
Support for Foster Parents and Kids
Wrightsville Beach Magazine
May 2021
May is National Foster Care Month and a good time to learn ways the community can support children in emergency situations and the families that bring stability in a time of turmoil.
A Helping Hand
North Brunswick Magazine
January 2019
The Pantry prepares grab bags filled with a week’s worth of toiletries and clothes for boys and girls of every age that social workers can now take with them when having to do the difficult job of removing a child from their home and placing them into foster care.
Locals fill backpacks for foster children
Starnews August 2018
Ban the Bags, Fill the Packs" filled over 100 backpacks for infants through to teenagers with school supplies, books, toiletries, toys and a handwritten note of inspiration and encouragement