Welcome to Ari Foss Foundation

While our website is a work in progress and being redesigned, our mission is not.  We are reviewing funding requests and funding those that are approved. You can donate using the Donate Button to the right (or below on a phone or tablet).

The Ari Foss Foundation is working with the Palliative Care Program at MUSC and Roper St. Francis Healthcare to identify families that need our assistance to help pay for funeral or cremation expenses when the families have lost their child due to stillbirth or neonatal demise within the first week of life.

The Ari Foss Foundation was created to help families overcome the financial stress created by losing a child through a stillborn death or neonatal demise within the first week of life. The Ari Foss Foundation has two primary missions:

Mission One – to provide education and resources to help families pay for funeral/burial expenses resulting from stillborn and infant deaths and

Mission Two – to provide financial assistance for basic funeral/cremation expenses for families that have lost their child due to stillbirth.

The Ari Foss Foundation two missions are described in more details on the Our Mission page.

The idea for the Ari Foss Foundation was born out of our experience of losing and planning for a funeral for our son, Ari Foss Silverman, who passed away during the birthing process. Read the Who is Ari Foss? page to learn about his and our story.

If you are interested in becoming a volunteer, visit the Volunteers page.