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Click here for information on grant requests and product donations. TOYS"R"US, INC. AND THE TOYS"R"US CHILDREN'S FUND
The core mission of Toys"R"Us, Inc. and the Toys"R"Us Children's Fund is to keep children safe and help them in times of need. Since it was founded in 1992, the Toys"R"Us Children's Fund has contributed millions of dollars to organizations that support that mission, including those providing disaster relief to children and families who are victims of large-scale crises. The Toys"R"Us Children's Fund also provides grants to leading organizations that assist children with special needs.
Signature Partnerships Safe Kids Worldwide 
In 2008, Toys"R"Us, Inc. launched a national safety awareness partnership with Safe Kids Worldwide, the first organization dedicated solely to preventing unintentional childhood injury and the only one to have a global reach, with partners in 16 countries. More children ages 1 to 14 die from accidents than any other cause, and almost all of these injuries are preventable. As a company devoted to all kids, Toys"R"Us Inc., shares in the mission of Safe Kids Worldwide to protect children and keep them safe from harm. The two organizations work together throughout the year to provide actionable safety tips to parents and caregivers on a variety of subjects, such as summer, holiday and travel safety.Autism Speaks 
In 2009, Toys"R"Us, Inc. and the Toys"R"Us Children's Fund increased their support of Autism Speaks, an organization dedicated to funding global biomedical research for autism and raising public awareness about the disorder and its effects on individuals, families and society. This year, the company's more than 260 Babies"R"Us locations nationwide joined Toys"R"Us stores in a nine-week in-store fundraising campaign to coincide with Autism Awareness Month in April. In 2008, Toys"R"Us stores raised $1.5 million to support crucial autism research and advocacy. Also, for the third consecutive year, Toys"R"Us, Inc. employees nationwide will participate in the Autism Speaks Walk Now for Autism program, a series of more than 75 fundraising walk events held in communities across the country. To kick off the 2009 partnership, including national sponsorship of the walk program, the Toys"R"Us Children's Fund awarded Autism Speaks a $400,000 grant. Since the partnership began in 2007, the Toys"R"Us Children's Fund, Toys"R"Us, Inc. and customer donations have combined to provide Autism Speaks with more than $3.7 million.
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation
As the largest retail partner in the more than 60-year history of the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation, Toys"R"Us, Inc. has raised over $16.2 million and collected 1.4 million toys throughout the five-year partnership with the organization. Each year during the holiday season, cash and toy donations are collected in all Toys"R"Us and Babies"R"Us stores nationwide, and monetary donations are also accepted online at www.Toysrus.com. All toys collected remain in the community where they are donated to benefit local children. In addition to these efforts, the Toys"R"Us Children's Fund has awarded Toys for Tots more than $500,000 in grants. Save the Children 
Save the Children is a global humanitarian organization that responds to the unique needs of the world's youngest victims in the wake of natural disasters. Toys"R"Us, Inc. and the Toys"R"Us Children's Fund have an ongoing partnership with Save the Children to offer support in situations where children need urgent assistance as a result of large-scale crises. The Toys"R"Us Children's Fund most recently made a $500,000 donation to assist relief and recovery programs in Texas and Louisiana on behalf of children and infants impacted by Hurricanes Gustav and Ike. Other recent donations have been allocated to help Midwest flooding and tornado relief efforts. Previously, the Toys"R"Us Children's Fund extended its support to Save the Children to aid in tsunami relief and reconstruction in Southeast Asia and to help victims of Southern California wildfires. Since 2000, Save the Children has received more than $2.3 million in grants and product donations from both the Toys"R"Us Children's Fund and Toys"R"Us, Inc.
Kids in Distressed Situations Kids in Distressed Situations (K.I.D.S.) is a global charity that distributes new, donated children's merchandise to more than 1,000 nonprofit agencies that help children in poverty-stricken communities, homeless shelters, foster-care facilities, hospitals, AIDS clinics and relief organizations. Since 1993, the "R"Us family has given K.I.D.S. significant product donations annually, from both the corporate and store level. The Toys"R"Us Children's Fund has awarded nearly $600,000 in financial support to K.I.D.S. to assist hundreds of local charitable agencies across the country. Children Affected by AIDS Foundation Children Affected by AIDS Foundation (CAAF) is the only organization solely devoted to providing social, educational, recreational and other critical support programs to vulnerable children impacted by HIV/AIDS in the United States and other countries. The Toys"R"Us Children's Fund has been an active supporter of CAAF's signature fundraising program, Dream Halloween, since 1994. The Toys"R"Us Children's Fund helped found the inaugural event in Los Angeles and has since extended its support to events in New York and Chicago. Since the partnership began, the Toys"R"Us Children's Fund has awarded CAAF grants totaling more than $1.8 million. In addition, Toys"R"Us, Inc. was an inaugural partner in CAAF's Dream Halloween cause marketing program. Support for Differently-Abled Kids  Thousands of parents, relatives, friends and caregivers have used the Toys"R"Us Toy Guide for Differently-Abled Kids to find everyday toys that help spark imagination and build critical skills for the special needs child in their life. The Guide is developed with the National Lekotek Center, a nonprofit organization dedicated to making the world accessible to children of all ages and abilities. The Toys"R"Us Children's Fund has supported the National Lekotek Center through grants totaling more than $330,000. To further demonstrate support for the special needs community, the Toys"R"Us Children's Fund has made donations to such leading organizations as the Muscular Dystrophy Association, the National Down Syndrome Society and Special Olympics, among others. Click here for a list of recent grant recipients within the special needs community.
The Toys"R"Us Children's Fund-Starlight Site Playroom Program  The Toys"R"Us Children's Fund began a partnership with the Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation in 2002 by providing the organization with a $7 million, multi-year grant – the largest in the Foundation's history – to build more than 70 playrooms across the country that benefit hundreds of thousands of pediatric patients and their families.
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