Cypress, CA-based Bandai America, Inc. contributed more than $5 million worth of toys to the 2003 U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots campaign. A national corporate sponsor of Toys for Tots since 1995, Bandai provided the donation, the largest to the toy campaign for the second year in a row, to alleviate the national shortfall in toy donations this holiday season. The donation is expected to alleviate much of the national shortfall in toys this holiday season, particularly in the Southern California area.
Also benefiting children, Ford Motor Company joined forces with Scholastic Parent & Child Magazine and Reading is Fundamental, Inc. (RIF) to donate 50,000 children’s books to kids in need. The book donation is part of a national early childhood education program developed by Scholastic Parent & Child Magazine and Ford, to help children learn about safety and literacy which program reaches millions of parents, teachers and children, online, at home and in more than 100,000 preschool and kindergarten classrooms nationwide. As part of the program, Ford and Scholastic developed an interactive online book donation program offering parents and teachers the opportunity to log-on to the official safety Web site, www.clueintosafety.com, and select a book to donate to a needy child.
Stevie Wonder auctioned off several rare and exclusive items on eBay last week in support of his 8th Annual House Full of Toys benefit. Items available through the auction included three of Wonder’s personal harmonicas and eight signed and personalized CDs. Wonder also auctioned a pair of tickets to the House Full of Toys Benefit Concert held December 20 at the Forum in Inglewood, CA. House Full of Toys is a charity designed to help Southern California-based children and families in need.
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