FOSTER YOUR DREAM 10TH ANNUAL TOY DRIVE BIGGEST EVER!

Posted on January 15, 2025 by admin in Blog, Events

THANKS to all you amazing people we collected 485 toys for foster children and their families to be given out all year ’round as needed! We use the holiday time to entice the ‘giving spirit’ to donate our way and this year we did better than ever. We had so many toys that we couldn’t display them this year. But here are some shots of your amazing GIFTS.

Sandra and I delivered them to Sonia Galarza from ACS downtown on Williams Street! She will distribute them to group homes, Families on the bubble of losing their children and little ones who arrive having been taken from their homes. Please know your contributions are priceless and we are so incredibly grateful for your donations. THANK YOU! ♥️

From one lone mailed in donation to 19 (2 more than the video below!) clear plastic bags filled with 285 precious toys, Sandra Garni, Mark Carson Selman and all the wonderful folks at the Bar Building and in my building, we had the wildest success ever. Enjoy the photos below. We are so grateful.

FOSTER YOUR DREAM 10TH ANNUAL TOY DRIVE FOR FOSTER KIDS!

Posted on December 17, 2024 by admin in Blog, Events, Welcome

When a child gets pulled out of his/her/their home, we have them choose a toy to make the scary day a little brighter. We also work with a large group of families whose children are on the bubble of being taken away. We gather toys during the giving season but we inventory them and give them to these two divisions of child-protective services (known as ACS in Los Angeles, DCFS in NY). The idea is to make these toys last for all of 2025. Will you HELP US????

Donate until JANUARY 7th 2025….

Please mail them to: (unwrapped, new, ANY AGE at all)

Foster Your Dream
36 West 44th Street
Suite 1412
New York, NY 10036

OR DROP THEM OFF IN OUR BOX IN THE LOBBY OF 36 West 44th Street if you’re in Nu Yawk! 🙂

You can take advantage of SALES! You can send them directly from AMAZON, or WALMART or TJMaxx or Michaels art supplies or ETSY or any other place you can think of. Just your thought and your generous action of even one small toy will do wonders for our population. These children get the necessities. We try to give them the extras. Remember some wonderful things we had as children? Help us make those kind of dreams in 2025 so our kids don’t fall through the cracks. If you prefer you can donate here! any time!

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

We will post the box filling up here:

9th Annual Toy Drive Bigger Than Ever!

Posted on February 21, 2024 by admin in Blog, Events

We are raising money to CRUSH this years donations in anticipation of our 10th ANNUAL toy drive next winter! Wanna help? DONATE HERE! THANKS THANKS THANKS!

Over 300 toys were donated to Foster Your Dream this year for children IN foster care, transitioning TO foster care (a super scary time) or working with highly at-risk families to help them keep their children from being TAKEN to foster care! It could never have been done with out all of your generous donations … FAR and WIDE. Strangers and friends! Special thanks to Sandra Garni and Mark Carson for hosting our toys!

It was out 9th Annual Toy Drive! Next year? I have a feeling with your help, we will break all our Toy Drive records. MANY THANKS TO ALL.

FOSTER YOUR DREAM 9TH ANNUAL TOY DRIVE!

Posted on November 10, 2023 by admin in Blog, Events, Welcome

We don’t have our box out at the address yet BUT …. WE WILL RECEIVE BY MAIL FOR ANOTHER WEEK OR TWO!~

We gather toys during the holiday season but we give the kids your toys when they get pulled out of their homes and go in to the foster system. It gives them some smiles during a scary time.

Won’t you give as much as you can by sending toys (unwrapped) to:

FOSTER YOUR DREAM
36 West 44th Street
Suite 1412
New York NY 10036

It’s kind of fun to shop online especially on Black Friday Deals?!?!?!

We will tell you when the box is in the Lobby and this year there might be other places to drop off.
Stay tuned. Stay involved. Stay happy and healthy!

MANY THANKS to all who have done this for years.
And WELCOME to new generous souls.

We are so grateful for you!

FOSTER YOUR DREAM 8TH ANNUAL TOY DRIVE HUGE SUCCESS

Posted on November 9, 2023 by admin in Blog, Events

STAY TUNED FOR DROP OFF LOCATIONS FOR OUR 9TH ANNUAL 2023 TOY DRIVE!!!

Once again we rallied the toy-magical-givers and filled our toy boxes!

Thanks to Sandra Garni and Tim Dugger we were able to collect, inventory for ACS and deliver our bounty to kids who could use a smile ALL YEAR LONG.

We always collect during the Thanksgiving, Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa and New Year’s holiday time because that’s when folks enjoy giving. But our mission is to provide a smile and a happy moment when a child gets pulled out of his or her or their homes and folded in to child protective services!

It’s often scary and sad for them. We let them chose something to have when they get moved to a foster home. So THANK YOU.

Won’t you give next year!

THANKS to all who help. Including the staff at 36 West 44th street, Klotz and Gould, Mark Carson Selman, Brikener Jean Gilles, Gwendolyn Carroll, Tim Dugger, Sandra Garni.

FOSTER YOUR DREAM TOY DRIVE

Posted on December 12, 2022 by admin in Blog, Events

Our 8th Annual Toy drive!

We started late due to so many snafus…but our foster youth are counting on you to H E L P! 🙂

We gather toys during the holiday season but we give the kids your toys when they get pulled out of their homes and in to the foster system. It gives them some smiles during a scary time.