About Angels’ Arms
Foster children deserve the chance to be children, to be part of a family, and to live up to their potential. To achieve this, Angels’ Arms provides homes, resources and emotional support to experienced foster parents so that they can raise the standard of care for foster children. Angels’ Arms strives to keep sibling groups together, and partners with foster parents, community supporters, organizations and other non-profits to provide a loving home environment and help our children become successful citizens. Angels’ Arms will become the national, knowledgeable authority to which decision makers turn for counsel about foster children and their needs
Over the past nineteen years, Angels’ Arms has served over 500+ children. The number of children living in the Angels’ Arms homes fluctuates, but each home can accommodate up to 6 children at any given time.
Angels’ Arms has 13 homes located throughout St. Louis City, St. Louis County and St. Charles County.
Angels’ Arms is blessed with over 200 volunteers who donate their time and efforts in various capacities. Volunteers are the backbone of all of our fundraising events and programs.
About Anthony D’Amato
Singer and songwriter Anthony D’Amato was born November 27, 1987 in Blairstown, New Jersey. His poetic and literate, folky songwriting style was refined and developed when he was a student at Princeton University. There he took an independent study class on songwriting with Paul Muldoon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar and critic who was also the poetry editor of The New Yorker. D’Amato recorded a D.I.Y. album, Down Wires, in his dorm room as part of the independent study, and eventually released it on his own in 2010. The album attracted a lot of critical press for its sharp, intelligent songwriting, and D’Amato followed it up with a second home recording, Paper Back Bones, in 2012, which also received very positive reviews. He began touring behind the two albums, and shared bills with Josh Ritter, Pete Yorn, Ben Kweller, Rhett Miller, and others, culminating in an appearance at the Newport Folk Festival. He signed a recording deal with New West Records in 2013, which released his third album, Shipwreck from the Shore, produced by Sam Kassirer and recorded at the Great North Sound Society in Maine with members of Bon Iver and Megafaun lending a hand, in the summer of 2014
