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Adoption Benefits, Employee Benefit Resources, Adoption Programs About the Program Adoption Friendly Employers Get Benefits Benchmarks Order Your Free Toolkit Take Our Benefit Survey Contact Us News Employer Spotlight: America s Top Ten Hear from the Winners: CEO s, human resource executives and adoptive employees share the real impact of adoption benefits on companies and families Adoption Benefits Tax Summary Welcome The Adoption-Friendly Workplace is a signature program of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption that encourages employers to offer adoption benefits and celebrates those who do. Order Your Free Toolkit We offer a comprehensive step-by-step guide for employers to establish adoption benefits and one for employees to propose them. Why offer adoption benefits - To increase employee loyalty and retention - For a competitive edge in recruiting new employees - To make a low cost addition to their work-life packages (utilization rates are very low) - To give employees time to bond with their child - To make adoption more affordable - To help move children waiting in foster care to loving, permanent homes - It’s the right thing to do Annual Best Adoption-Friendly Workplaces List Winners will be announced May 1, 2008 Our thanks to all who applied The Foundation is again honoring America s Best Adoption-Friendly Workplaces with special recognition for the top 100, the best small, medium and large employers and industry leaders. Rankings are based on employer-provided adoption benefits, such as the amount of financial assistance and paid leave for employees who adopt. Winners will be announced to the media and featured in Employee Benefit News on May 1, 2008. The 2007 Winner: Citizens Financial Group! Based in Providence, Rhode Island, Citizens offers the most financial reimbursement in the nation ($20,960 per adoption) and one week of paid leave for employees who adopt. Rita Soronen (...