Toys for Tots
About Toys for Tots
Marine Corp Toys For Tots Foundation
It all began in December of 1947, with a handcrafted doll. The wife of Marine Reserve Major Bill Hendricks made this doll and asked her husband to deliver it to an organization that would present it to a needy child on Christmas Day. Major Hendricks could find no such organization that provided such a service. To fill that void, Major Hendricks and members of his Marine Reserve unit, collected and distributed 5000 toys to needy children of Los Angeles on Christmas day of 1947. The seed was planted and TOYS FOR TOTS was born.
Local Individuals and Businesses are very important to us. This is a chance to give back to the local communities. You are so vital in the success of the TOYS FOR TOTS program. You can generate or purchase media attention for the program, Sponsor a toy raising Event, or simply allow your place of Business to be a toy drop off location.
The all important thing is that we are local people providing New Toys for local underpriviledged children who live in our local Communities. The donations you make locally are spent locally. Over 97 percent of each dollar donated is spent on the purchase of new toys. No person who assists with Toys for Tots gets paid and are all volunteers. We simply work for the children in the eight counties we serve in Virginia and West Virginia combined.
This is the Christmas Mission of your Marine Corp Reserve Unit, and Local TOYS FOR TOTS programs in all fifty states. Lets make this our Mission, EVERY CHILD DESERVES A HAPPY CHRISTMAS.
Our local Toys for Tots Campaign is entering it's 17th year. Each year the volunteers from our area work hard to make this year better than the last and it is our hope to continue that trend this year. With your help we can give those less fortunate children in our area the hope and reality that they can have Christmas this year too. Please heip us help the thousands of needy children in our local communites have a wonderful Christmas Day.