an individual or nonprofit entity that assists the biological parents in locating and evaluating prospective parents

an unlicensed for-profit company providing adoption services

a person or organization, not licensed as an adoption agency, that advertises for the purpose of soliciting parties to an adoption, locating children for an adoption, or acting as an intermediary to an adoption

unlicensed organizations or individuals offering adoption services, which is illegal in 20 states.

Individuals, agencies, adoption attorneys, whose main business is to connect birth parents, and or orphan children, with adoptive parents.

In international adoption, a facilitator may help adoptive parents complete the adoption in the child's country of origin.

individuals who assist prospective adoptive parents in their quest to find a child. Can be licensed or unlicensed. Illegal in some parts of Canada and the US

a person or organization that assists prospective adoptive parents and/or adoption agencies in finding adoptable children. Not all facilitators are required to have a license - it is all dependent upon where they do business.