FOSTER YOUR DREAM 11th TOY DRIVE HUGE SUCCESS!

WE STARTED OUT HUMBLY … WITH THE BOX DECORATED BY SANDRA GARNI!

AND RECEIVED 474 TOYS, 92 BOOKS AND 24 SETS OF HAND MADE HATS AND SCARVES.

GATHERED IN 4 LOCATIONS … DELIVERED TO SEVERAL LOCATIONS INCLUDING ACS’S SANTA’S WORKSHOP!

MANY THANKS TO OUR ANGELS SANDRA, KARISHMA, SHAY, JERMAINE PILGRIM, ELIJAH, JACOB, MARK(s), JAMES, SONIA GALARZA. CANDY MARTINEZ AND HER CROCHET/KNITTING GROUP!

We couldn’t do this without so many people. These toys will go to foster children during 2026. When they get pulled out of their houses they are often scared and sad. These toys will be given to them so your donations literally give SMILES to children, through no fault of their own, are put in a system where the Government is in charge of raising them until they are adopted or reunited with the family who’s neglect or abuse landed them in Foster Care. You are all angels. Thank you.

donate if you can. any amount is amazing! thanks. 🙂

FOSTER YOUR DREAM 11th ANNUAL TOY DRIVE!

ELIJAH, an emancipated Foster Youth, speaks out about gathering toys during the holidays for children all year long. As you know, children get pulled out of their homes 365 days a year. They come to the children’s center alone and scared. We use the Holidays to encourage folks to gather toys for Foster Your Dream but we give the toys to the children when arrive hoping to put a smile on their often teary faces. Please ….

DONATE

We’ve lost our office space in midtown for now so stay tuned where you can send toys.

Well, we managed to collect 474 toys and 91 books in three locations and many of you donated from the link below and we bought books and toys with your donations! THANK YOU THANK YOU.

OR….DONATE

FOSTER YOUR DREAM 10TH ANNUAL TOY DRIVE BIGGEST EVER!

THANKS to all you amazing people we collected 485 toys for foster children and their families to be given out all year ’round as needed! We use the holiday time to entice the ‘giving spirit’ to donate our way and this year we did better than ever. We had so many toys that we couldn’t display them this year. But here are some shots of your amazing GIFTS.

Sandra and I delivered them to Sonia Galarza from ACS downtown on Williams Street! She will distribute them to group homes, Families on the bubble of losing their children and little ones who arrive having been taken from their homes. Please know your contributions are priceless and we are so incredibly grateful for your donations. THANK YOU! ♥️

From one lone mailed in donation to 19 (2 more than the video below!) clear plastic bags filled with 285 precious toys, Sandra Garni, Mark Carson Selman and all the wonderful folks at the Bar Building and in my building, we had the wildest success ever. Enjoy the photos below. We are so grateful.

FOSTER YOUR DREAM 10TH ANNUAL TOY DRIVE FOR FOSTER KIDS!

When a child gets pulled out of his/her/their home, we have them choose a toy to make the scary day a little brighter. We also work with a large group of families whose children are on the bubble of being taken away. We gather toys during the giving season but we inventory them and give them to these two divisions of child-protective services (known as ACS in Los Angeles, DCFS in NY). The idea is to make these toys last for all of 2025. Will you HELP US????

Donate until JANUARY 7th 2025….

Please mail them to: (unwrapped, new, ANY AGE at all)

Foster Your Dream
36 West 44th Street
Suite 1412
New York, NY 10036

OR DROP THEM OFF IN OUR BOX IN THE LOBBY OF 36 West 44th Street if you’re in Nu Yawk! 🙂

You can take advantage of SALES! You can send them directly from AMAZON, or WALMART or TJMaxx or Michaels art supplies or ETSY or any other place you can think of. Just your thought and your generous action of even one small toy will do wonders for our population. These children get the necessities. We try to give them the extras. Remember some wonderful things we had as children? Help us make those kind of dreams in 2025 so our kids don’t fall through the cracks. If you prefer you can donate here! any time!

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

We will post the box filling up here:

FOSTER YOUR DREAM GOES BEHIND THE SCENES GREAT GATSBY ON BROADWAY!

GREAT GATSBY VIDEO INSIDE BROADWAY SHOWS US A WOW-BANG THRILLING MOMENT!

Great Gatsby on Broadway and Inside Broadway hosted hundreds of school children to show us amazing behind the scenes secrets! From actors singing to pyrotechnics booming and bright colored costumes and smoke effects and sliding scenery we got to see how the magic happens in one of the most gorgeous Broadway shows happening right now!

As you know we can not show any foster children. They are not in the care of their parents who hold the rights to their photo likeness! We also respect their privacy. BUT … you can hear their screams of delight and know this is something they will always remember.

Thank you so so much to The Great Gatsby for showing us the glorious spectacle of the theatre. And big thanks to Inside Broadway who does this year after year inspiring many young people to go in to the theatre and not just ON the stage but behind the stage, too!

Foster Your Dream Joins Halloween Party at BAM-BOO event!

We love it when our families get to go to an amazing and fun Halloween block party. Our Foster Fams with kids 4-12 got to kick off the spookiest night of the year at this free, family-friendly Carnival! They enjoyed games and arts & crafts and movies, too!

What a fun Street Party it was. We don’t have permission to use faces. Our silly face-blocking technique is in the spirit of the holiday! BOO and thank YOU!

Many thanks to Dewonnie Frederick for making sure our kids are always invited!