About Us
history • vision • Mission
Founded in 2015
SELFLESS LOVE FOUNDATION
Selfless Love Foundation is a non-profit organization that leverages resources, expertise, and proven solutions to improve the child welfare system, creating opportunities for more foster youth to find their forever families and thrive in adulthood.
Our History
Selfless Love Foundation (SLF) was created in 2015 by Ashley and Ed Brown to make the world a better place for children in foster care. Adopted as an infant, Ashley experienced a second chance at life through the gift of family. Through that gift and the opportunities it provided, Ashley deeply desired to pay her blessing forward.
Thanks to our founders’ vision and generosity, SLF has helped to create hundreds of forever families, supported thousands of youth on their journey to adulthood, and impacted system-level changes.
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Our Mission
Selfless Love Foundation leverages resources, expertise, and proven solutions to improve the child welfare system, creating opportunities for more foster youth to find their forever families and thrive in adulthood. We are focused on impact. We work in three key areas to transform the lives of current and former foster youth though awareness and strategic partnerships: adoptions, independent living, and advocacy.
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Our Vision
Child welfare transformed. A world where every child’s dreams can come true. Fostering dreams for foster children.
We believe…
everyone deserves a family, whether that is by being adopted or by being there as an extended family for youth that age out – we believe family is everything. We believe in collective impact. Collective Impact is a means by which people come together in a structured way to achieve social change.
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PAVING THE WAY
Selfless Love Foundation is the thought leader for adoptions and transitioning youth, driving changes to policy, practice, and process. Our work is breaking generational cycles of poverty, abuse, and instability that are often exacerbated by experiences in foster care. More children in foster care and youth aging out are replacing these experiences with family, belonging, and safety. That impact will be felt by the youth being served today and for generations to come.
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“Alone we can do so little;
together we can do so much.”
-Helen Keller
