Toys for
Tots is
partnering with the
Green Bay
Packers right in
time for the holidays
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In 1947, a
group of Marine Reservists lead by Major Bill Hendricks collected around 5,000
Toys and handed them out to underprivileged children in Los Angeles. This charitable act was inspired in part by Hendricks’ wife, Diane, who felt frustration after being unable to find an organization that would accept and donate her homemade doll.*
Thus began
Toys for Tots, a program now run by the United States Marine Corps Reserve that has given out roughly 512 million
Toys to hundreds of millions of needy children.*
On December 3, the organization is taking up temporary residency in an unlikely spot: The parking lot of Wisconsin’s Lambeau Field. Capitalizing on the love of Wisconsin's love of football,
The Green Bay Packers’ Toys for Tots collection will take place at the historic stadium prior to the
Green Bay Packers-Tampa Bay Buccaneers game.*
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