Gifts 4 Smiles believes a child’s hospital experience can be scary and parental loss or adult abuse is a heartbreak, but when a small child is able to have a plush friend to cuddle and cling to, it can often help the loneliness.
Give Hospitalized Children, a Cuddly Plush Toy
Animal and Get BIG Smiles
What Gifts 4 Smiles Does for Hospital Kids
Every Gifts 4 Smiles children’s hospital delivery gives 50 ill children a gift of love in the form of a quality designed & made 16″+ huggable plush animals to make them smile. Gifts 4 Smiles finds gift needy children’s hospitals (mostly in rural U.S. areas) which don’t have a surplus of plush toys. Then, after the situation is known and donated funding is good to go, fifty plush Puppies, Bunnies, Beagles, Bears and other loveable animal plush toys for newbies to elementary schoolers are sent with sincere love from our caring donors . . . hopefully just like you.
Give an Abused or Orphaned Child a Cuddly Plush Toy
Animal and Get a BIG Smile
What Gifts 4 Smiles Does for Lonely Children
Gifts 4 Smiles sends abused and orphaned children who need a friend a gift of love in the form of a quality made 16″+ huggable plush animals to make them smile. Gifts 4 Smiles locates the gift needy children (mostly in rural and impoverished areas) who are with foster care providers or in orphaned facilities to determine the gifts to send. Then, depending on the living situation, plush Puppies, Bunnies, Beagles, Bears and other loveable animal plush toys for newbies to elementary schoolers are sent with sincere love from our caring donors . . . hopefully just like you.
It’s Donor Maker to Toy Maker to Smile Maker
With hospital deliveries, the gifts ship direct from the toy company to the children’s hospital. With orphaned and abused children the delivery depends if the individual child is in institutional care, or with a foster family. Gifts 4 Smiles then fulfills the delivery to the children either direct from the U.S. company, or individually via UPS.
And, when the gifts are received, the lonely and sad little faces beam with big heartwarming smiles because they now have a forever friend. And afterwards, it’s repeat and repeat and repeat whenever enough donations are received to send another delivery of cherished gifts to other hospitalized and unfortunate little souls.
How to make a Child Smile
After you click “GIVE A GIFT”, you have 2 choices. You can select if you want your donation to go to hospitalized, or abused children? And, if you want your gift to be considered as a “Public Donation” or “Public Partner Donation”.
Public Donations – 100% of all “Public Donations” only go to the gifts wholesale cost and delivery to the recipients. It’s only possible because Gifts 4 Smiles is a 100% Plus Charity. “Plus” means all of the G4S charity’s management people are unpaid volunteers and partner donors; and if necessary, they may personally pay the charity’s overhead for 100% to gifts donations to be possible. Fixed operating expenses are unavoidable and G4S’s gift giving to needy children can be limited if the Public Donations are not sufficiently funded.
Public Partner Donations – 85% of all “Public Partner Donations” go to pay for the gifts cost and delivery and 15% go towards G4S operating cost. If you select Public Partner Donor, 15% of your gift donation will help pay the G4S charity’s necessary overhead.
You can make an ill, lonely or sad child smile and give them a forever memorable friend today. Just select a child situation and the type of donation you want to make on the form after a click on the below box.
Gifts 4 Smiles may soon also have a new ‘Corporate Partner Donations’ program which can arrange for a bulk order, wholesale price donation with the donor company’s logo identity, or special message tag on each cuddly gift friend along with distribution to needy hospitals. For further information see ‘FAQ”, or email: inquiry@gifts4smiles.org
FAQ
What is a "100% Plus Charity" and how is it possible that 100% of all "Public Donations" only go to the gifts cost and their delivery? Can I see a copy of the G4S Bylaws?
“100% Plus Charity” is a designation which means all of the charity”s officers & management people are unpaid volunteers and Donor Partners to achieve the G4S charity’s goals. If G4S’s necessary operating funds are not sufficient because the G4S’s 100% Public Donations only go to pay for the gifts policy, the ‘Donor Partners’ often personally cover the overhead cost. A copy of the G4S Bylaws and its IRS 501(c)(3) document can be found at: Gifts4Smiles, Inc. Bylaws, 501(c)(3) let & FL Corp. Docs. pdf link.
Are Gifts 4 Smiles donations tax deductible?
Yes. Gifts 4 Smiles, Inc. is an IRS 501 (c)(3) registered charity. You can consult with your tax advisor – maybe they will also make a smile.
Does the Gifts 4 Smiles charity need volunteers?
Yes. G4S needs volunteers who want to provide their service for ‘good karma’ rather than money. The current needs are:
• A Social Media Coordinator
• A Hospital & Social Services Liaison Assistant
Please send a brief summary about yourself to: volunteer@gifts4smiles.org.
Is the Gifts 4 Smiles charity directly affiliated with any other organization?
No. The G4S charity is not directly affiliated with any faith based, political, government, for profit, or other type of organizations. However, it’s possible a hospitalized or abused child may be in the custodial foster care of various organizations and G4S’s only goal is to make a child smile.
Are the Gifts 4 Smiles toys quality products and child product safe? And, where are they made?
Yes. All the toys G4S selects to send have quality designs and are ASTM & CPSIA & PROP 65 certified. All are washable and most are machine washable. All are from U.S. companies and are made to their high quality specifications in either Vietnam, or Indonesia.
Can Gifts 4 Smiles send 50 plush toys to a children's hospital I select?
Yes, There are two main requirements – It must be a 50 plush toy minimum <$1,000 order and the children’s hospital should be gift needy (not already have a large surplus of plus toys). If interested, please send an email request for info to: inquiry@gifts4smiles.org
What is the Gifts 4 Smiles Corporate Donor Program (with logo identity, or special message on each gift) requirement?
G4S will soon have a new program for corporate donors to be able to give hospital children plush dog gifts with their corporate logo, or message attached to the gifts’ info tag. The minimum run order would be 2,500 and wholesale coat of <$???? (plus 15% overhead). G4S will provide the need vetting and fulfillment delivery to the hospitals on a 50 unit minimum each delivery basis. If interested, please send an email for further info to: inquiry@gifts4smiles.org
SEE A SMILE HAPPEN
Contact:
866.835.0594
inquiry@Gifts4Smiles.org
Gifts 4 Smiles, Inc., PO Box 1363, Pompano Beach, FL 33062