Toys For Tots: How To Help In Newtown

NEWTOWN, CT — While you’re checking off holiday gifts for family members, don’t forget the kids who aren’t on anyone’s shopping list and pick up some items for the Toys for Tots campaign in Newtown.

Sponsored by the Marine Corps Reserves since 1991, Toys for Tots is organized locally in Newtown by Marine Veterans of Fairfield County, Inc

Last year, the NW Fairfield County CT Campaign distributed 18,974 toys to 9,220 children who might not otherwise have gotten any Christmas gifts. To date, the Toys for Tots program has distributed 677 million toys to 301 million children.

Besides dropping off new, unwrapped toys at several drop-off locations, people who want to support the campaign can also donate online.

Here are the drop-off sites in Newtown:

• Coldwell Banker - 45 South Main Street
• National Shooting Sports Foundation - 11 Mile High Road
• Berkshire Hathaway Realtors - 84 A South Main Street
• Society of Plastics Engineers - 13 Church Hill Road
• Children's Adventure Center - 14 Riverside Road
• Sandy Hook Newtown Hardware - 61 Church Hill Road
• Newtown Police Dept. - 3 Main Street
• Newtown Youth Academy - 4 Primose Lane
• Dr. John Popowich - 71 South Main Street
• Cannon Ridge Training Center - 3 Simms Lane
• Dodingtown Fire Dept. - 55 Dodington Road
• William Pitt - Sotheby's Realty - 17 Church Hill Road
• State Farm - 23 Barnabas Road

The Marine Toys for Tots Foundation is an IRS-recognized nonprofit public charity created in 1991. The foundation, created in 1991, uses 97 percent of every donation to buy toys for children in need.