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 loneliess.
Give Hospitalized Children a Cuddly Plus Toy”
Animal and Get BIG Smiles
What Gifts 4 Smiles Does for Hospital Kids
Every Gifts 4 Smiles childrens’ hospital delivery gives 50 ill children a gift of love in the form of quality 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 hospital is found and if donated funding is good to go, fifty plush Puppies, Bunnies, Bears and other loveable animal plush toys for newbies to elementary schoolers are sent with love from our caring donors . . . hopefull just like you.
*some stock photos used due to privacy laws
Give an Orphaned or Abused Child a Cuddly Plus Toy
Animal and Get BIG Smile
What Gifts 4 Smiles Does for Lonely Children
Gifts 4 Smiles sends orphan and abused 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 children who are with foster care providers, or in orphan facilities to determine the gifts to send. Then depeding on the situation, and if donated funding is good to go, fifty plush Puppies, Bunnies, Bears and other loveable animal plush toys for newbies to elementary schoolers are sent with love from our caring donors . . . hopefull just like you.
*some stock photos used due to privacy laws
it’s Donor Maker to Toy Maker to Smile Maker
With hospital deliveries, the gifts ship direct from the toy company the children’s hospital, With orphan or abused children the delivery depends if the individual child is in institutional care, or with foster parents. Gifts 4 Smiles fulfills the delivery to the child, either direct from the company, or individually via UPS. All of the plush toy gifts G4S sends are high quality designs from U.S. companies and the gift cost is only G4S’s wholesale price & delivery to the child.
And when the gifts are received, the sad litle faces beam with big heartwarming smiles because they now have a forever friend. Afterwards, it’s repeat and repeat, and repeat whenever enough donations are received to send another delivery of cherished gifts to other hospitalized or unfortunate little souls.
How to Make a Child Smile
After you click “Give A Gift”, you have two choices. 1. You can select if you want your donation to go to hospitalized, or orphened & abused children. And, 2. if you want your gift to be considered as “Public Donation” or “Partner Donation”.
Public Donations – 100% of all ‘Public Donations’ only go to the gifts’ wholesale cost & delivery to the children. Gifts 4 Smiles is a 100% Plus Charity – The “Plus” designation is because all of G4S’s management people are volunteers & Partner Donors who personally pay the G4S charity’s operating expense overhead, if needed. Overead is unavoidable and necessary for charities to exist.
Partner Donations – 85% of all ‘Partner Donations’ goes to the gifts wholesale cost & delivery and 15% towards overhead. G4S’s is able to make a 100% Public Donations only to gifts pledge and grow the charity’s purpose because of the 15% overhead contributions.
You can make a sad face child smile and give them a forever memorable friend today. Just select a child situation and type of donation you want to make on the form after a click on the box below.
Some children hospitals where G4S donors have made BIG smiles.
FYI
Is my Gifts 4 Smiles donation tax deductible?
Yes, Gifts 4 Smiles, Inc. is an IRS 501(c)(3) charity. You can consult with your tax advisor and also make them smile.
Are the plush toys Gifts 4 Smiles gives quality products and child 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 washale and most are machine washable. All are from U.S. companies and are made to their standards in either Vietnam, or Indonesia.
Is Gifts 4 Smiles affiliated with any other organization?
No, the Gifts 4 Smiles charity is not directly affiliated with any any faith based, political, governmental, for profit, or other organization. However, it is possible a hospitalized, orphaned, or abused child could be in the custodial care related to various organizations and G4S’s only goal is about making the child smile.
Can Gifts 4 Smiles send 50 plush toys to a children's hospital I select?
Yes. There are a two main requirements – It must be a 50 plush toy mnimum (<$1,000) order and the childrens hospital should be gift needy (not currently have a large surplus of plush toys). If interested, please send an email request to: inquiry@gifts4smiles.org.
What is the G4S Corporate Partner donor program?
G4S may soon have a corporate partner donor program with their company logo identity, or special small message on a tag attached to each plush toy gift. The minimum order would b 2,300 items at wholesale cost & delivery, plus 7.5% for G4S to provide the fulfillment delivery and some overhead reimbursement.
What is a "100% Plus Charity"? Where can a copy of the G4S Bylaws & IRS 501(c)(3) documents be seen?
A “100% Plus Charity” designation is when all of the charity’s officers and management people are unpaid volunteers and donor partners. If G4S’s necessary operating funds are insufficient because G4S’s 100% of Public donations only to the gifts & delivery, then the donor partners personally pay the overhead cost. A copy of the G4S Bylaws and IRS 501(c)(3) documents can be found at: Gifts4Smiles, Inc. Bylaws, 501(c)(3) let & FL Corp. Docs.
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