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May 2015

10K Strong for Earth Week Collections

It's been a busy few weeks here! We're excited to announce that Earth Week 2015 collections totaled 10,000 toys. That's 10,000 toys in the hands of children in need, rather than taking up space in a landfill. That's roughly 20 TONS of plastic saved! A special thank you to all of our volunteers and to our partners at 1-800-GOT-JUNK, Kidville, Kohl's, and Viacom. Let's do it again next year!

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Viacommunity Day 2015: Dance Party Toy Prep!

The outstanding team at Viacom never ceases to amaze us! Our third annual Viacommunity Day partnership went off without a hitch. The volunteers showed up full of energy, ready and excited to prep close to 1,000 gently used plastic toys for local kids in need.

100 Viacom associates volunteered to spend the day cleaning, tagging and bagging all of the toys that were collected at 10 participating Kidville drop-off locations across the city.  

Toys: A Gift That Keeps On Giving

Oftentimes, when a "rare collection" is being auctioned off, you expected to hear about Sotheby's or Christie's acting on behalf of the upper crust.  But every now and then comes a heart-warming rarities auction of sorts.

Enter Joe Moscone, a publicist who had worked with Hasbro for a long time.

Toys For All On Amazon

Last week, an interesting news story came out about Amazon, as highlighted by Caroline Bologna with The Huffington Post.  Amazon, the undisputed king of online retail, made the decision to no longer sort toys by gender.  Or, as Jack Danger pointed out on Twitter, “there are no more 'boys' and 'girls' sections.”

1-800-GOT-JUNK? & SCT Making Moves from Washington DC to Boston

This Earth Week, Second Chance Toys teamed up with 1-800-GOT-JUNK? at 11 different locations from Washington DC to Boston! Together we collected over 1,500 gently used plastic toys that were delivered to deserving children in the same communities they were collected.

We weren’t the only ones impressed by Got Junk and their supportive communities, Mayor DeLuca of Maplewood, NJ stopped by to show his support too!