Big Family of Michigan
It’s all about the kids and the kids are essential
Serving Foster Children Since 2001
Our Mission
Big Family of Michigan
Our Mission
Big Family of Michigan supports and serves the needs of foster children, institutionalized children and grandchildren raised by their grandparents.
Our Vision
Big Family of Michigan
Our Vision
Our vision has allowed us to expand our outreach to 45 of the 83 counties in Michigan providing services and support to foster children and their foster family and grandchildren being raised by their grandparents. In Michigan, there are more grandparents raising grandchildren than there are foster children. The services for this sector are deficient, as often these families do not qualify for any assistance. Our vision is to ensure that all foster children and children raised by their grandparents are not overlooked or forgotten
Big Family of Michigan is a Michigan based, grassroots 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization that supports and serves the needs of foster children, abused children, institutionalized children and grandchildren being raised by grandparents from infancy through the age of 23 and there is never a cost to children or their caregiver(s).
How we make a difference
What We Do
How we make a difference
We have multiple programs and volunteer opportunities so each individual or group can select the right fit for them.
Host an event
Support kids aging out of the foster program (ages 17-23)
Help out at the warehouse – Everything from sorting clothes, wrapping gifts and taking inventory. Lots to do, so few hands.
Shop on-line at Amazon – fulfill wish list requests
Our Achievements
By the Numbers
A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which I enjoy with my whole heart
foster kids in Michigan
grandkids being raised by grandparents
children received Christmas presents in 2023
2022 To Date
How it Started
Jeanne's Story
The passion behind Big Family of Michigan started nearly 60 years ago in an abusive home, where at a very young age, Jeanne Fowler and her brother Peter experienced a horrific childhood. Beaten and tortured daily, the two clung to each other as their sole source of love and reason for living. Unfortunately, that bond was broken when Peter, age three, was beaten to death at the hands of their mother.
Peter’s short-lived life is what motivated Jeanne Fowler to stop child abuse and improve the lives of children in foster care so that they never have to experience a childhood like hers.
You can be a part of this change.
