1) To mobilize the Christian community to foster, adopt and volunteer for children in foster care, in Pulaski County and 40 other counties across the state.
2) To provide transitional housing and support to youth who are aging out of foster care, homeless or have runaway as they pursue independence and healing.
3) To build hope in waiting kids through fun monthly events and to create child-specific awareness, with the goal of finding a forever family for every waiting child.

There are two ways to get a Walk t-shirt. Each walker that raises $250 or more in sponsorships will receive a free t-shirt the day of the Walk. Everyone else is welcome to buy a t-shirt at the event for $15 through cash or card purchase. There will be a limited supply of youth & toddler shirts and James 1:27 baseball t-shirts (only L - XXXL left) available at a first come first served basis.

Just under 1 mile and you're welcome to walk, run, crawl, hop, push a stroller or move however you choose!

Registration is free for both the family fun walk & 5K fundraiser! Simply click the "Register" button near the top of the page and register that way. During your registration, you can set your goal of how much money you would like to raise by recruiting your friends and family to sponsor you.

Look out for an email closer to the time of the event for details on race route. The race will start and end from War Memorial field.

Yes. There will be a timing chip built into your runners bib. You will be able to get a print out of your time when the race is over. 

Yes. For finishers, male & female in each age category.

8:00 AM - Event Registration Opens
9:00 AM - Opening Ceremony
9:15 AM - Family fun walk begins
10:00 AM - 10 Fitness 5K Race starts
10:15 AM - Post-walk Celebration Party & Awards Ceremony
11:00 AM to 2 PM - 5th Year Food Truck Fellowship

We have invited many food trucks to park next to War Memorial after the Walk. They will be serving a variety of foods from 11AM - 2PM for families to purchase and stick around to fellowship in celebration of what God is doing on behalf of the orphans in Arkansas through the efforts of The CALL, Immerse Arkansas & Project Zero! Both cash and cards will be accepted for purchases.

Yes. You can make a donation to a walker on a team or you can make a general team donation.

All donations should be mailed to:
Walk for the Waiting
PO Box 45385
Little Rock, AR 72214.

Please make all checks payable to: Walk for the Waiting.
Please make sure that in the memo it says Walk for the Waiting and who the donations should be credited to.

Click on the home page and begin typing the first or last name. Your options will display as you type.

Any donation made online should post immediately. If an online donation does not post within 5 minutes, please contact us.

If you check this checkbox, you will be charged the amount indicated next to the checkbox. This amount will also be visible to the non-profit. However, on the fundraising page, your intended - initial donation amount will be displayed.

All monetary donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

Yes. For Canadian donations made online with a credit card, the amount entered in the online donation form will be in U.S. dollars.

Any donor who mailed their donation and provided an address will receive a receipt via mail once the donation has been processed. If you made your donation in installments, you will receive a receipt each time a monthly payment is processed.

Yes, anyone who donates online, regardless of the amount, will receive a receipt via email.

A Tax ID number identifies Walk for the Waiting as a 501(c)(3) non-profit Organization. The Walk for the Waiting Tax ID number is 27-1925096

When you make a donation online, you can designate what you want to appear as your recognition name on the participant's Honor Roll. This may be your name, or it could be something such as "From the whole Wolf family" or "in memory of Aunt Cathy."

If a donation check has been written out to you personally, you may endorse the back of the check and mail it in with a completed donation form to Walk for the Waiting.

It is not a good idea to send a cash donation in the mail. You may drop off the cash at Walk for the Waiting along with your information or you can deposit the cash into your checking account and send a personal check from your account.

Any donation made online should post immediately. If your donation does not post within 5 minutes, please contact Walk for the Waiting.

You can't enter a check online. What you can do is enter a check as a pledge. This can be done in the fundraising section of your headquarters page. The status of the check will be pending until the check is received by Walk for the Waiting.

A Tax ID number identifies Walk for the Waiting as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Many donors will request this number to validate their donation as tax-deductible. The Walk for the Waiting Tax ID number is 27-1925096.

As your donors make a contribution, they have the option of whether or not they want to appear in the Honor Roll.

Log in with your email and password to visit your headquarters page. Select ‘My Fundraising Report on the left side. You will then find a list of all of your donors as well as a list of all donors to your team .

To easily send thank-you emails to donors, follow these steps:

1. Log in to your fundraiser dashboard by clicking the "My HQ" link in the top right
2. Click "My Fundraising Report" in the left sidebar
3. Locate the donor/donation you'd like to thank, and click "Send Email" (If the donor didn't submit their email address, this option is unavailable.)
4. Type the message in the pop-up window, and click "Send Email"

You are receiving these emails because we would like to keep you updated on your fundraising efforts. If you wish to stop receiving these updates, please login to your headquarters and edit your account preferences.

A personal URL is a shortened link to your team or personal page that you can send to friends and family in emails. A personal URL will look like this http://www.walkforthewaiting.org/ben.

When a donor makes a donation online, s/he can enter text to appear on the fundraising honor roll. This may be the donor's name, or it could be something like "From the whole Wolf family" or "In Memory of Aunt Cathy".