Down 7 Up 8
Down 7 Up 8 began with Rose Diggs opening her home. Today, it is a community-powered nonprofit helping Georgia children build confidence, skills, and hope.
Down 7 Up 8 Incorporated was founded in 2016 by Rose Diggs, a foster mother who has provided short- to medium-term housing for more than 300 children over 11 years. Her home has included six sibling groups who stayed together for two years or longer.
Down 7 Up 8 designs and runs programs that help foster, adopted, and at-risk children in Georgia build confidence, skills, and hope in partnership with the families and communities raising them.
Down 7 Up 8 serves foster, adopted, and at-risk children and young people in Georgia, along with foster parents, adoptive parents, guardians, kinship caregivers, and families working to provide safe, stable care.
Children are treated with care, respect, and humanity.
Programs support school, relationships, confidence, and future independence.
Tutors, mentors, volunteers, and caregivers show up with patience and purpose.
Volunteers, donors, partners, and families help children rise together.