- Police departments, fire departments, children's hospitals and homeless shelters often accept stuffed animals for donation.
- Stuffed Animals for Emergencies (SAFE) is a national charity that accepts used toys. SAFE's website can direct you to the nearest drop of location (see Resources).
- Mail or drop off stuffed animals to Project Night Night, a San Francisco-based organization dedicated to helping homeless children (see Resources).
- Mushy Mates is located in Orlando, Florida. It will help you find local places to donate stuffed animals which are then passed on to foster care agencies (see Resources).
- Cuddle Buddies is a youth-led organization. Contact them through its website to see if there is a local chapter (see Resources).
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squishdoll said
on 10/11/2009 There is a really neat organization in Long Beach, CA. that accepts toys, stuffed animals and even child car seats for recycling. They held an event that I attended recently where they showed that many of the large second hand organizations are so overwhelmed with toys, especially stuffed animals that many of them get tossed into their giant compactors and are hauled off to landfill. This organization (Disposal Alternatives) is dedicated to turning this around by making sure that anything that is not or cannot be reused gets recycled.
You can contact them through their website, though I think it is still under construction.
They are at disposalalternatives.com and are good about responding to your questions if you email them.
BTW, you can email them directly at alternatives@usa.com
They had a real cool display for the kids about their old toys getting a new life as something so the...