The Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute (commonly referred to as the Donaldson Adoption Institute) was a U.S.-based nonprofit research, education, and advocacy organization founded in 1996 to improve adoption policy and practice and to serve the needs of birth parents, adopted people, adoptive families, and adoption professionals; it produced original research, policy recommendations, public education initiatives (including the \"Let’s Adopt Reform\" effort) and convened stakeholders. The institute wound down operations in January 2018.
Adoption and child welfare policy (open adoption and adoptee access to records), post-adoption supports and mental health, race and equity in adoption, foster care permanency, ethics and regulation of adoption practice, public education on adoption-related issues
Philanthropic support including foundation and individual donor grants, project-specific grants and gifts, and some earned revenue from publications and events
Spence-Chapin Services to Families and Children (founding sponsor), Child Welfare League of America (past collaborative partner), and prominent leaders such as Adam Pertman (former CEO) and April Dinwoodie (CEO at time of closure)
Nonprofit 501(c)(3) research and advocacy organization
