Our mission is to create a movement providing direct support to empower working single moms of NEPA and beyond filling the gaps with a network of sustainable resources and support to enhance their quality of life so they can be the best version of themselves to thrive as moms and women of our community.
We are fulfilling our mission through community engagement, comprehensive mentorship programming to fill the gaps on real-life challenges of personal well-being, finances, relationships, and career enhancement, and social and emotional enrichment experiences for both mom and children throughout the year. The AASM Project provides a path of encouragement, inspiration, and engagement with hope and healing.

What’s the GAP?

The single mom’s in this ‘gap’ have two primary challenges. The most prevalent gap of single moms is lacking an adequate and meaningful support system for social and emotional support with them often feeling isolated, lonely and unsupported. They are the one’s who often lack the financial safety net to get through a financial hardship and yet often make too money to receive financial assistance from community and government funded subsidy programs to help fill the gaps.

Our Founding Story

Adopt A Single Mom Project is a grassroots non-profit founded November 2017 inspired by founder, Donna Nelson’s lived experience as a single mom as a sole parent of two boys. She was driven by recognizing the huge need in her own community of Northeastern Pennsylvania that she felt compelled to create a program specifically for working single mom’s in her area who fall into the invisible gap of lacking a meaningful support system and a financial safety net.

It started with the idea to buy Christmas gifts for the single moms who work, and from her experience get over looked at Christmas time. She felt compelled by this knowing the truth that often single moms do not have gifts under the tree for herself… unless she used her own money to put them their.

It had been Donna’s vision to make a social investment that aligned with her coaching and consulting business to uplift the women who have lived and struggled in many of the same ways as I had as a working single mom. She wanted to share the tools, knowledge and experiences used mentoring and supporting her clients to inspire, empower and enhance the quality of life for the working single mom so she can connect to her purpose and flourish as a woman in her role as mom, co-worker and community member.

It is my passion to help others feel empowered regardless of the life situations they face. We all feel more powerful and confident when we are appreciated and valued… and that’s what this project aims to achieve.

Why We Need Your Help

The number of single mom families in Northeastern Pennsylvania.

12,383 of them are in the GAP above Federal poverty level.

THESE MOM’S OFTEN ARE INVISIBLE AND FALL OFF THE RADAR OF THE COMMUNITY BECAUSE THEY DON’T QUALIFY FOR MANY (OR ANY) SUPPORT SERVICES AND SUBSIDY PROGRAMS.

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Beyond Community Outreach… It’s a MOVEMENT!

Ask any parent and they will tell you raising children has many challenges. Doing it alone brings it to another level of complexity with a myriad of roles to navigate, financial struggle, starting and ending relationships – these can all take an emotional toll on single mom’s.

In the United States single mom’s are head of household to 17.2 million children under the age of 18.

In reality though, many children over the age of 18 are still living at home or being supported financially in some way by their mom’s. The point here is that emotionally and financially the responsibility doesn’t end at age 18 very often.

For this reason we created a community support group on Facebook to connect and support single mom’s everywhere. Come join us and LIKE our page to stay up to date and get inspired and support.

How We’re Making a Difference

It is our hope and vision that our small contribution of support to encourage, inspire and engage will express to these mom’s they are not forgotten, and that they are valued and supported. That they in fact are not invisible – we see them, we understand, and we care.

As women and important contributors to our society, we want to give them a nudge of encouragement, and hope they feel inspired to keep going and being the best they can – and when they can, they’ll pass it on…and with that, we have started an important shift in connection with humanity that will change our community in countless ways.

How You Can Help

Donations can be mailed to:

Donna Nelson c/o AASM
PO Box 338
Mountain Top, PA 18707

Make checks payable to:
ADOPT A SINGLE MOM PROJECT

Adopt A Single Mom Project is a nonprofit, tax-exempt charitable organization (Tax ID: 82-5027338) under Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code. Donations are tax-deductible as allowed by law.

Contact Us

To learn more about being a sponsor or community contributor, making an in-kind donation, volunteering or learning more about this project and how you or your organization can get involved, send a message below.

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