Back in 2015 our very good friend ‘Gibb’ had an idea and reached out to us about making a donation to Toys for Tots and we couldn’t have been more excited. Every year we have matched his donation and have donated between 50 to 100 yo-yos each year! We wanted to open this up to the community and try to make this our biggest donation year ever. Together YoYoExpert, Gibb, and YoYoFactory have teamed up to make your donation really count. For every $6 donation made we will donate a total of 4 SpinStars!
We have both a public and anonymous option for your donations. Public donations will be listed and thanked by name in our final announcement. Otherwise your name will be left anonymous if you choose that option instead.
Special thanks to Gibb and YoYoFactory and YOU for making this possible! We will be splitting the donations of yo-yos between Arizona and Massachusetts so both East Coast & West Coast! Let’s make this a big year! Join us now! Last day to donate is December 18th!
In return for your generosity we will send you a one time 10% off code to use in January !!
Great idea. This should stay at the top of the topics. One of these tots may be on a trading card one day! All that’s important is that kids will be happy in a sometimes seemingly UNhappy world.
Wanted to make sure I got back around to do the big update here! I cannot begin to tell everyone how amazing it felt to be able to drop off these yo-yos off for donation. The yo-yo community came in on our Toys for Tots drive in a BIG way! In total we had 96 donations to the toys for tots drive!
Meaning in total we donated an astounding 384 yo-yos!!!
We split the donation between ourselves in Massachusetts (we dropped off at two different locations hoping to spread the love a bit), and then YoYoFactory donated their half at a local drop site in Arizona! And we also sent a contingent out to New York State where someone local there made a big Toys for Tots Drive.
We are thinking for next year it might be fun to organize a little more in advance and have some different people offer different locations. We will see!
Public Donations were made by the following awesome individuals:
Leslie Hurley
Brian Kearley
Zac Carlin
Jeff Atwood
Daniel Lohin
Raymond Reese
Bryan Fiege
John Cooper
Andrew Rae-Bayer
Michael Cady
Preston Werner
James Honaker
Jon Timmer
Thank you again for everyone who donated (both publicly and privately). I hope we showed a few kids the joy of what you can do with a modern yo-yo. You never know when you might just have created that future world champion!
