Holiday Gift Drive
Help make some spirits bright!
Kids Charity of Tampa Bay would like to thank everyone in the Tampa Bay community for making our “Help Us Fill the Wagon” Holiday Gift Drive such a huge success. Through your generosity, we were able to provide gifts for over 1400 children in the Tampa Bay area. These children include those in the foster care system in Tampa, Pinellas and Pasco counties, as well as young adults who have recently aged out of foster care.
Drop off locations were set up all over the Bay area for donors to drop off general gift donations, as well as gifts for specific children which were listed through a link on our website.
Many individuals and companies sponsored specific children by taking a "tag" with the child's name, age and list of wishes. Cash donations were used to purchase gifts for additional children - either those who were not sponsored or those recently entering foster care.
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Kids Charity of Tampa Bay provides Holiday Gifts for abused, abandoned and neglected children in the Tampa Bay area through our annual Holiday Gift Drive. This community initiative brings individual and group donors together to “Help Us Fill the Wagon” with gifts for children who otherwise would not receive them.
“How Can I Help?”
Host a Gift Drive for your company or social group
We can send you tags that list specific children and their wishes or you can collect gifts from our general wish list
Sponsor a child or family
We will give you the names, ages and wishes of a specific child/children or a family/families.
Don’t have time to shop? We have elves ready to shop for you!
Make a donation below or send us a check and we promise to make the holidays a little brighter for a child in our community!
Most Popular Wishes:
Infants/Toddlers: Bath toys, Sensory & Stacking Toys, Learning Toys, Toys with lights and sounds, Large Legos, Leap Frog toys and games, Trucks & Cars appropriate for children under 3 years old
Pre-School: Leap Frog toys and games, Action Figures (non-violent), Baby Alive Dolls & other Baby Dolls (all ethnicities), Tricycles, Shopping Carts & Kitchen Play sets, Musical Instruments/toys
School Aged: Bicycles, Arts & Craft Sets, Sketch Pads, Remote Control Cars/Trucks, Princess Tiana Dolls & items, Sports Clothing & Hats, Basketballs, Footballs, Baseballs & Gloves, Lego Sets, Board Games, Video Games
Pre-Teens & Teenagers: Bicycles, iPods & docking stations, Digital Cameras, Jewelry, Nail Polish Sets, Bath & Body Sets, Popular CDs (edited versions ), Card Games & Board games, Sports clothing & equipment, Gift Cards for Fast Food, Movies, Walmart & Target
** Teenagers are not the first age group that most people think of when donating during the holidays. Their wishes are often more expensive and they often do not receive what they want and/or need. Please consider this when choosing to make a holiday donation.
For more information, please contact our Head Elf: (813) 843-1833
Kids Charity of Tampa Bay, 4115 West Spruce Street, Tampa, FL 33607
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