About the Collaboration

Every child deserves something to open on Christmas morning. Collaborative Toy Town brings together local charities, businesses, churches and neighbors across Garden City and Finney County around that one simple belief. Instead of many groups each running a small toy drive of their own, we pool our gifts, our volunteers and our know-how into one shared effort, so that more families are reached, nobody falls through the cracks, and no family has to stand in line at five different places to be helped.

It works because everyone does the part they do best. Partner agencies enroll the families they already know and serve, so every family is met by someone they trust. Neighbors take a tag from an Angel Tree at a local business and bring back a gift for a real child. Sponsors and donors turn their generosity into toys, clothing and warm winter gear. Volunteers give their time to sort, set up and walk alongside families on pickup day.

Then, in the week before Christmas, families come to one central location and shop for their own children, with a friendly volunteer at their side. Parents and guardians choose the gifts themselves, because they know their kids best, and that dignity matters as much as the gifts. When a mom or dad walks out with an armful of presents they picked out, a whole family's Christmas changes. One community. Many hearts. Brighter tomorrows.