Our Goal

is to provide teens aging out of foster care with brand new suitcases
filled with everyday essentials as they transition into adulthood.
One act of kindness can change someone’s life forever.

What We Do
How Can You Help
 

Our Goal

is to provide teens aging out of foster care with brand new suitcases
filled with everyday essentials as they transition into adulthood.
One act of kindness can change someone’s life forever.

What We Do
How Can You Help
 

Our Goal

is to provide teens aging out of foster care with brand new suitcases
filled with everyday essentials as they transition into adulthood.
One act of kindness can change someone’s life forever.

What We Do
How Can You Help

Our Mission

The Knighten Project exists to restore hope, dignity, and dreams to teens in foster care, our Dreamers, who are preparing to age out of the system. We provide essential resources, tools, and everyday necessities while raising awareness about life after foster care, so young adults in the Tampa foster care system can transition into adulthood feeling supported, valued, and empowered to dream again.

How You Can Help Make an Impact 

WE NEED SUITCASES!!

More than 23,000 kids age out of U.S. Foster Care each year. Without the support that comes from an adoptive family or permanency connection, these kids face instant homelessness and are given trash bags to put their most precious possessions in.

Every donation towards our Packed for Purpose Suitcase Donation drive will make sure these teens are not forced to carry their personal items in a trash bag. No Trash Bags here!

How can you make an impact?  Read more here on how you can donate a new suitcase, essentials to go inside, or a monetary donation.

Browse Our Amazon Wish List & Walmart Registry 

Show your support by shopping our Amazon wish list or Walmart Registry to purchase new suitcases and everyday essentials that will automatically ship to The Knighten Project. You may also choose to make a monetary donation to help us meet the greatest and most immediate needs of our Dreamers.

A Mom on a Mission

 

Bernetta Knighten has set a goal, to bring dignity to the process of “aging out” of Florida’s Foster Care System.” To me, they are a forgotten population,” she said, “They are given then trash bags for them to put their things in, and if they don’t have somewhere to go like college or back to a family member, they literally become homeless.” The Valrico mom started a non-profit, called the Knighten Project, several years ago with the goal of making a difference in the world around her.

We were featured on both abc Action News & Fox News Tampa for featuring us on What’s Right in Tampa

Complete This Form to Request a Suitcase

Are you a foster care organization in the Tampa Bay area that needs suitcases for teens who are aging out of foster care now? Please complete our form and we will contact you with delivery details.

** We do provide suitcases for teens outside of Hillsborough County, but you have to agree to come get them or meet us.**

Complete this form: https://forms.gle/uHBqRnobicbDEzN9A

Your “Giving” in Action!

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Our Sponsors

Testimonials

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I just want to take this time to give thanks to TKP for helping me in my time of need. I was really in a bad place in my life and the KP stepped without any hesitation, and I am truly thankful for that. God bless and continue to be a blessing to others as you all were to me.

Sheria F.
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In life we all experience moments where we secretly desire more, dream of a life that may not exist, and even think of the possibility of what our world would be like if we all pooled our resources together. That's where the Knighten Project comes in. KP gives us an opportunity to BE the Change in the World that We Wish to See. By partnering with KP, I am given multiple opportunities to anonymously make a difference in the lives of others with the goal of giving, loving and possibly restoring HOPE into the HOPEless.

Shatavia E.