Datz Foundation - Dictrict of Columbia

The Datz Foundation was founded as a full-service adoption agency by Mark Eckman and Vivian Datoff in the District of Columbia in 1987. It has placed over 3,000 children born in the U.S. and abroad with families all over the world. Named after the family of one of its founders it was granted 501-C-3 (non-profit) status by the Internal Revenue Service in 1988, and became licensed in Virginia and Maryland shortly thereafter. The Datz Foundation of North Carolina, a separate legal entity, was licensed as a "for profit" adoption agency in 1993, and has become one of the leading "for profit" agencies in that state. Our staff includes two attorneys specializing in adoption issues, clinical social workers and adoption experts who know how to deal with the complex issues in intercountry adoption. Our clients range from traditional married couples, to single individuals, to same-sex couples. They live throughout the United States and abroad. What they have in common is the desire and the ability to provide a home and a family to an adobtable child. Our China team, which divides its time between China and Washington, DC, is bilingual and able to resolve any communication problem.