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Causes: Children & Youth, Youth Community Service Clubs
Mission: Toys 4 smiles is a charitable organization that uses donated scrap hardwood to make toys and give them away to children of all ages who need a smile, while providing a sense of purpose, caring and community to it's volunteers. The organization has manufactured and donated 272,000 toys to children primarily in southern nevada as of the end of 2016. There are more than 100 volunteers who use saws, glue and computers to make and distribute toys to more than 50 different charities, churches, fire stations, hospitals, schools, who then get them into the hands of children who need them.
Programs: Manufacture and distribution of approximately 35,000 toy cars in 2016. Expenses related to purchase of wheels and axles, tools and equipment; not manufactured using donated scrap hardwood.
operational expenses necessary to manufacture and distribute toy cars. Expenses include rent, utilities, equipment repairs, database, postage, general maintenance, and depreciation expense. Fair market value of donated facilities (11,856) and donated materials used in production (89,516) are included.