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.

Volunteers across the Bay Area collect the toys, sort them in San Jose, and deliver them through the organizations that serve local families.

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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.

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.

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

    Businesses and schools collect.

    A workplace, school, or parish keeps a collection box in its lobby from October through December.

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

    Volunteers sort.

    Boxes come back full to our San Jose warehouse, where volunteers sort the toys by age.

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

    Local organizations deliver.

    Local nonprofits and agencies request what they need, then hand the toys to the families they work with all year.

Run by volunteers since 2012.

Companies, schools, faith communities, and scout troops run their own collection drives, Fortune 500 companies among them. We supply the boxes and the printed materials and cover the freight, so a drive costs its host nothing. Nobody here draws a salary.

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 organizations that host a toy drive each season.

Where to start.

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.

Donate a toy

Host a Toy 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.

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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.

Start with one toy.

Drop one off in San Jose or at any donation site.

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