Joey’s Toy Drive

Gathered office by office, then driven home.

The drive runs on about 120 Bay Area partners.

Companies, schools, faith communities, and community groups across nine counties. Each hosts a collection drive through November and December, then sends every toy to San Jose.

Three young volunteers holding new toys on a Joey's Toy Drive collection day, with pallets of donated gifts stacked behind them
Gathered office by office, carried in by hand — a season of partner drives, at the San Jose staging lot.

Names you’d know, named here.

A few corporate partners have agreed to be named publicly — Fortune 500s among them. They stand for a much larger network of workplaces that host a drive quietly, year after year.

  • CostcoPartner organization
  • RobinhoodPartner organization
  • DHLPartner organization
  • HallmarkPartner organization
  • Thermo Fisher ScientificPartner organization
  • + moreabout 120 partners run a drive each season

The rest go unnamed — schools, faith communities, and community groups across the San Francisco Bay Area, plus companies that host without a logo on a page. We’d rather earn the right to add a name than print one without permission.

The rooms it actually happens in.

Not a warehouse — a lobby, a reception desk, a spot by the tree. Every partner drive starts as a box somewhere people already pass each day.

  • Four Joey's Toy Drive collection boxes beside a decorated tree in an office lobby, wrapped gifts already stacked underneath
    An office lobby — four boxes and a tree.
  • Candy-cane striped Joey's Toy Drive collection boxes lined up at a company reception desk
    A reception desk, dressed for the season.
  • Joey's Toy Drive collection boxes filling with wrapped gifts beside a decorated tree in a corporate lobby
    A corporate lobby — boxes filling by the tree.

A Bay Area network, reaching down the coast.

Most 2025 partner drives cluster across the nine Bay Area counties we serve. Two volunteers carried the drive farther — to Monterey and Santa Barbara — and the toys came back to San Jose, to go to Bay Area kids.

Two people. Two new regions.

In Monterey, Chris Ferris ran a drive that sent roughly 400 toys back to San Jose. A UCSB student carried it to Santa Barbara and gathered close to 1,000. Both batches came home and went to Bay Area kids.

Monterey
~400
toys · Chris Ferris
Santa Barbara
~1,000
toys · UCSB student ambassador

Four kinds of partners. One drive.

Different rooms, the same season. Every one of them ends with a box of new toys headed to San Jose.

Corporate workplaces

Fortune 500s, mid-market tech, professional services firms, and neighborhood businesses. Each hosts a collection box at the office through November and December.

Costco · Robinhood · DHL · and more

Schools

Public schools, private schools, and university student groups across the nine counties. Some run the drive inside their own community; others collect for families nearby.

K–12 districts · independent schools · campus groups

Faith communities

Local faith communities fold a drive into their seasonal giving, often handing toys to neighborhood families directly.

Congregations · faith-based community centers

Community organizations

Scout troops, neighborhood associations, civic clubs, and nonprofit partners. They both collect toys and help get them to children through the network.

Scout troops · civic clubs · partner nonprofits

Silicon Valley Moving & Storage moves it all.

SVM donates the operational backbone of Joey’s Toy Drive: trucks, warehouse space, freight handling — what it takes to move tens of thousands of toys across nine counties.

A volunteer team couldn’t deliver at this scale without it. The drive’s name is Joey’s; the logistics are SVM’s.

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Volunteers loading a moving van with collected toys for distribution across the Bay Area

The 121st partner could be yours.

Free to host. We supply the materials and the logistics; you supply the workplace. We pick up donations of 50 or more, free.