Katie Garner and Toan Nguyen posing with the firemen of Fire Station 1, Orange County
By Katie Garner
Santa Claus isn’t the only one delivering toys this year!
On December 16th and 18th, BlueAlly delivered over 200 toys to charity drives across the country. Employees in Cary, North Carolina brought heaps of toys to Toys for Tots, a U. S. Marine Corps led program that delivers toys to children in local communities. Two days later, employees in Irvine brought toys to the Orange Fire Dept. Station 1 as part of the annual Spark of Love Toy Drive, an initiative that provides underserved children with toys and sports equipment.
"This is an incredible number of gifts, and we appreciate BlueAlly going above and beyond this year,” said Blake Kaiser, a Firefighter for the city of Orange. “The kids are going to be thrilled!"
Jaclyn Lee and Patty Apple and toy donations, Cary, North Carolina
2022 marks BlueAlly’s fifth year participating in this year-end event, and it’s one of many ways that BlueAlly reaffirms its Community Outreach promise to serve and give back to local communities in need. BlueAlly employees in Irvine hand-delivered the toy donations to firefighters at the city of Orange’s new fire department headquarters, a state-of-the-art facility that was unveiled in October of this year.
BlueAlly Employees helping firemen load toy donations.
"We’re proud that we were able to donate so many toys this year," said Jonathan Berger, Chief Marketing Officer at BlueAlly. “Hopefully next year we can reach another benchmark and donate more.”
BlueAlly plans to contribute to Toys for Tots and the Spark of Love Toy Drive again in 2023, and they encourage others to do the same. You can donate new, unwrapped toys or sporting equipment to any fire station in Orange County during the weeks leading up to Christmas.
Happy Holidays!
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About Spark of Love
The “Spark of Love Toy Drive Fund” was created in 2004 at the California Community Foundation to provide toys or sports equipment for underserved children during the holiday season in Southern California.