Keeping Barker strong, preserving our enduring commitment to serve children and families for a lifetime.

Throughout our history, The Barker Adoption Foundation has enjoyed tremendous financial support from Barker families and friends, foundations, and corporations.

To protect Barker's efforts to strengthen and expand vital programs, support, and services, as well as safeguard our ability to serve families well into the 21st century, The Legacy Fund was created to provide a substantial and protected financial base to help keep Baker strong and vital.

Income from The Legacy Fund provides annual financial support, allowing Barker to work in a stable, debt-free environment – assured in our ability to provide support and services so crucial to all members of the adoption community today, tomorrow, and in the many years to come.

Many people choose to give to The Legacy Fund by check, from their assets -stocks, gifts from their IRA or  grants from their Donor-Advised Funds, and through their will or trust.

To make a gift to The Legacy Fund or for  more information, please contact Michele Mazzei, Director of Development, at 301-664-9664 or by email at mmazzei [at] barkerfoundation.org.

Friends of Barker

Friends of Barker is a not-for-profit incorporated in 1996 in the District of Columbia, with The Barker Adoption Foundation as its sole beneficiary. The Friends of Barker Board of Directors is responsible for managing Barker's endowment fund, known as The Legacy Fund.

 

Rachel Firschein

Rachel Firschein
President
Senior Vice President, Oppenheimer & Co.

Amy Sturtevant

Amy Sturtevant  ​
Treasurer

Senior Vice President at RBC Wealth Management

John Duff

John Duff
Past President & Director
Managing Director, Duff Ackerman Goodrich, LLC and DAG Ventures

Rob Delucia

Rob Delucia
Director
Vice President, Labor & Employment, Airlines for America

Nonie Akman

Nonie Akman
Director
Bereavement Counselor, Montgomery County Hospice

Kamal Ali ​
Director

Owner, Ben’s Chili Bowl

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Jelani Freeman
Director

Attorney | Federal & State Electric & Gas Regulatory Commission