Nonprofit Spotlight: Dave Thomas Foundation
Foundation initiative will go nationwide over the next four years.
May 18, 2017 3:15 PM ET
![Rita Soronen, president and CEO of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption - Rob Hardin](https://3blaws.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/carousel_2x/s3/images/Screen_shot_2017-05-17_at_2.26.38_PM.png)
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By Kitty McConnell French
Twenty-five years ago, Wendy’s founder Dave Thomas embarked on a revolutionary mission. His goal: Make the adoption system in America work for all children in need of adoptive families.
“He founded this organization to focus on this specific group of children who are in the tenuous position of waiting for a family (and) aging out of the foster care system without the family that was promised to them,” says Rita Soronen...