![]() ![]() ![]() Toys For Tots was launched as a national campaign. In 1948, a feasibility report for the Marines using it as a national public relations and recruitment tool was written by Maj. Riffel also helped found the organization. At her suggestion, he gathered a group of local Marine reservists, including Lieutenant Colonel John Hampton, who coordinated and collected some 5,000 toys for local children that year from collection bins placed outside Warner Bros. Major Bill Hendricks, USMCR, was inspired by his wife Diane when she tried to donate a homemade Raggedy Ann doll to a needy child but could not find any organization to do so. Toys for Tots began as a Los Angeles charitable effort in 1947.
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