Joey’s Toy Drive
A young boy in a Santa hat carries the new toy he just received, walking out of the Joey's Toy Drive warehouse

Every child deserves a gift on Christmas morning.

Every toy stays in the Bay Area. Our volunteers collect tens of thousands each season and deliver them to children in need.

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Joey’s Toy Drive collects new, unwrapped toy donations and distributes them as Christmas gifts to children in need throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.

Our mission, since 2012

A volunteer hands a wrapped toy through a car window to a young girl reaching out for it on distribution day

How the drive works.

See where the toys go
  1. Four Joey's Toy Drive collection boxes standing around a decorated Christmas tree in an office lobby

    Partners collect.

    Businesses, schools, and faith communities keep a collection box where their people already walk every day.

  2. A Joey's Toy Drive collection box beside bins of stuffed animals and stacked toys inside the warehouse

    We sort.

    Every box comes back full, and our volunteers sort the toys by age before they go out again.

  3. Pallets of donated toys stacked under a CityTeam sign, with two people standing in front of them

    Local organizations deliver.

    They already serve Bay Area families all year. They request toys from us and hand them to the children they know.

No paid staff. About 120 partners.

Companies, schools, faith communities, and scout troops host the collections, with Fortune 500 companies among them. Students run their own school drives, and volunteers have carried the drive to towns of their own. Everyone who moves a toy is a volunteer, which is why a donation reaches a child instead of an overhead line.

A group of student volunteers holding a Joey's Toy Drive sign at their school's collection drive
A school collection drive, run by its students.

A few of the partners who host a drive each season.

Local newsrooms have covered the drive since 2015, including ABC7 and KTVU. The full record is on the impact page.

Three ways to help.

Donate a toy

One new, unwrapped toy for a child aged 0 to 17. Drop it at our San Jose warehouse, or order from the wish list and have it sent straight to the drive.

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Host a drive

Set up a collection box at your office, school, or gym. Our team handles the boxes, the materials, and the pickup. Hosting costs nothing.

Host a drive

Volunteer

Sorting, driving, and distribution. The whole drive runs on people who give a few days.

Apply to volunteer

We accept donations year-round.

Bring a new, unwrapped toy to our San Jose warehouse, weekdays 9 to 4, or ship one from the Amazon wish list. Donation sites across the Bay Area open when the drive is underway.

See every site on the full map.

We’ll tell you when the drive is underway.

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Donate a toy.

Drop one off at 186 Barnard Ave in San Jose, Mon–Fri, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM.

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