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Embryo Adoption Awareness Campaign

Award Number: EAAPA261039
ORGANIZATION: OFFICE OF POPULATION AFFAIRS/EMBRYO ADOPTION AWARNESS
OPDIV: DHHS/OS
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: HEALTH SERVICES
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/30/2026
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 09/29/2028

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Embryo Adoption Awareness Campaign - In 1997 Nightlight® Christian Adoptions established the first non-clinical embryo placement and adoption program, [children are not donated into families] called Snowflakes®. With over 65 years of child-centered adoption expertise, thirty years ago Nightlight chose to pioneer an embryo adoption model for the Snowflakes program specifically to demonstrate respect for the needs of children who already exist and are in need of a family. Nightlight expertise has been honed over decades in comprehensive services to children and families through domestic, international, and embryo adoption services, foster care, counseling and family support services. The Nightlight mission is to share God’s love through providing ethical, child-centered services that promote permanency, family stability and the well-being of children. Nightlight has consistently demonstrated excellence in its ability to match clients interested in selecting a family for their remaining embryos with families willing to give birth to adopted embryos. Snowflakes Embryo Adoption Program provides: comprehensive screening of both placing and adopting families, three generations of medical history on donated embryos, open adoption matching services, and adoption home studies that include criminal and child-abuse background checks, reference checks, and embryo adoption education, post-placement support and permanent record storage of all adoptions. Nightlight works in all 50 states and operates an established network of fertility clinics for frozen embryo transfer (FET) services. Before Snowflakes, the only choice available to families was to anonymously donate or receive embryos through a fertility clinic. While many people may be aware of the term embryo adoption, they don’t necessarily know specifics about the process or where they can secure embryo placement and adoption services. The primary goal of this grant-funded program is to help more babies be born into families by increasing participation in both embryo placement and embryo adoption services and by providing access to the Snowflakes medical services network in the effort to achieve pregnancy. The following three objectives for meeting that goal will build upon foundational work that Nightlight has established over the past 30 years. -Increase awareness to both people who have remaining embryos in frozen storage and people who could benefit from knowing they could give birth to their adopted child. -Provide adopting families access to fertility clinics, medical professionals and adoption professionals that are aware and supportive of embryo adoption -Deliver relevant child-centric educational counseling to inquirers and participants regarding open adoption, match family communications, medical history and age-appropriate disclosure strategies. The grant goal and objectives are expected increase embryo placement and adoption by 25% annually. This will be accomplished through outreach and education to people with remaining embryos, adopters of embryos, fertility clinics, medical and adoption professionals and the children born into families through embryo adoption.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2026 ( Subtotal = $920,000 )
2026	2026	NIGHTLIGHT CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS	1528 BROOKHOLLOW DR	SANTA ANA	CA	92705	ORANGE	USA	Public Awareness Campaigns on Embryo Adoption	00	1	9/29/2026	NEW	$920,000
														Subtotal = $920,000

Grand Total All Awards = $920,000

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Embryo Adoption Awareness Campaign

Award Number: EAAPA261039

ORGANIZATION: OFFICE OF POPULATION AFFAIRS/EMBRYO ADOPTION AWARNESS

OPDIV: DHHS/OS

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: HEALTH SERVICES

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/30/2026

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 09/29/2028

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