Faces of The Cradle
The Cradle is a nonprofit child welfare agency in Evanston, Illinois that provides adoption services, counseling and lifelong support to adoptive families, adoptees and birth parents. In 2023, the Cradle celebrated its 100-year anniversary with a variety of different events spanning several months. These included a birthday bash, the unveiling of a new sculpture honoring birth parents, a fundraising gala and the launch of a multimedia microsite featuring touching stories from people whose lives have been touched by adoption via The Cradle. This initiative was called Faces of The Cradle.
I worked closely on Faces of The Cradle from beginning to end. I drafted the boilerplate and copy on the story submission page and microsite, helped craft the social media posts to collect story submissions and wrote SEO-driven meta descriptions to drive traffic to each story on the finished microsite. In addition to working on Faces of The Cradle, I wrote a press release for the The Cradle’s new birth parent sculpture. Scroll to see it all!
Graphic Designer: Maggie Harding
Faces of The Cradle Social Media
For 100 years and counting, The Cradle has built nurturing families and provided lifelong support to all communities touched by adoption.
To celebrate our Centennial, we’re collecting stories from people whose lives have been touched by The Cradle. Has The Cradle touched your life in any way? We invite you to share your story for Faces of The Cradle!
So many people make what we do possible and all the more meaningful. Faces of The Cradle is a celebration of their stories and the impact we’ve had as we continue to work towards a world where every child thrives in a safe and loving family.
To submit your Cradle story today, visit https://cradle.org/faces-of-the-cradle/
The tapestry of The Cradle's 100-year history is interwoven with countless stories of love, hope, and resilience. Each thread represents a family, a child, a birth parent, or an adoptive parent whose life has been touched by our mission and who has contributed to our legacy of service.
As we commemorate this significant milestone, we want to honor and celebrate the faces of The Cradle, the people who have made our work possible and who continue to inspire us every day. If you have a story to share, if you have been part of The Cradle's history in any way, we invite you to join us in this celebration by visiting cradle.org/faces-of-the-cradle/.
Your story, your voice, your experience matter. They are the foundation of our past and the inspiration for our future. Through Faces of The Cradle, we want to create a mosaic of stories that reflects the diversity, strength, and beauty of our community. So please, share your story with us today, and let us weave it into the fabric of our history. Together, we can continue to work towards a world where every child thrives in a safe and loving family.
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Woven into our 100-year history is a patchwork of stories that bring purpose and meaning to The Cradle as we continue to work towards a world where every child thrives in a safe and loving family.
Is The Cradle part of your history? As part of our Centennial celebration, we’re collecting stories from people whose lives have been touched by The Cradle in our first 100 years.
Faces of The Cradle is a celebration of these stories.
Share your story today for Faces of The Cradle: https://cradle.org/faces-of-the-cradle/
