2010 Annual Report - Toy Industry Association

2010 Impact
Toy Industry Foundation | 2010 Annual Report
Programs / Partnerships
“Imagine being a child who is suffering at the hands of an abuser,
leaving home and all normal surroundings, then finding no Christmas or
birthday. You make it possible for these children to find some normalcy,
and a reason to smile again.”
—Women’s Aid in Crisis
` Foster children in 38 states received My Stuff Bag duffels which contained toys collected by
toy industry manufacturers, retailers and distributors through The Toy Bank.
` TIF’s Second Annual Do Good Stuff-a-Thon brought more than 125 volunteers together to fill
5,000 duffel bags with toys, toiletries, handmade blankets and other items for abused and
neglected kids which were distributed to organizations such as California’s Bienvenidos;
Florida’s Kids Central, Inc.; New York’s Steuben County Department of Social Services; and
Texas’ A World for Children.
` TIF hosted a special stuff-a-thon for Toy Industry Association staff members’ kids and friends
as part of Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work® Day where they assembled 100 duffel bags
for foster children served by the Passaic County Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Wayne,
NJ.
` For the second time, TIF distributed My Stuff bags to 50 incoming kindergartners at Mott
Haven Academy Charter School in the Bronx, the nation’s only public charter school for at-risk
students in foster care or the child welfare system.
` My Stuff Bags duffels were delivered by TIF and My Stuff Bags in Las Vegas to children served
by the Clark County Foster and Adoptive Parent’s Association.
` TIF and My Stuff Bags visited The Children’s Home in Florida to deliver duffel bags stuffed
with toys, toiletries and other essential items to local children in foster care.
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