Serving Our Community
JAKKS™ encourages employees to give back to our community with meaningful (and fun!) volunteer opportunities, with the goal of one day amassing a global army of JAKKS Cares™ volunteers. Because our employees are our most important asset, we also support causes that are important to our employees, who generously donate their time, talent and passion for charities that are close to their hearts.
Operation Smile®
JAKKS Pacific® proudly supports Operation Smile, a global organization that repairs childhood facial deformities while building public and private partnerships that advocate for sustainable healthcare systems for children and families. Since 1982, more than 130,000 children and young adults have been treated by thousands of volunteers worldwide and thousands of healthcare professionals have been trained globally. For as little as $240, Operation Smile can change a child’s life by giving the gift of a surgery, and JAKKS Pacific is working to support their important mission. The newest Operation Smile facility in Hangzhou, China is a full time hospital conducting surgeries everyday and working to help people throughout Asia who are in desperate need of surgeries to fix their facial deformities and change their lives forever! JAKKS Pacific salutes Operation Smile Founders Bill and Kathy Magee.
JAKKS Sends Kids with Cancer to Camp
Camp Ronald McDonald for Good Times provides kids with cancer and their families a fun-filled camp experience, where for a few days, they can laugh, play, swim, dream, play sports and have fun. The environment is made to be safe with proper medical facilities. JAKKS Cares proudly sponsors the Annual Halloween Carnival, and for the Camp’s 25th Anniversary in 2007, JAKKS got the Silver Anniversary Care Bears involved in the celebrations
Aiding Disaster Relief Efforts
The May 12, 2008 earthquake in China and Myanmar hit close to home for JAKKS Pacific. Malibu-based JAKKS has hundreds of employees based in China in addition to thousands of factory employees affiliated with the Company who were affected by the recent disaster. JAKKS Pacific’s U.S. and Hong Kong employees rallied together and generously raised $27,000 to help support children and families affected by the natural disaster. As part of the JAKKS Cares philanthropic giving program, JAKKS matched each dollar donated, resulting in a total contribution of $54,000 to support relief efforts of the Red Cross Society of China. The funds were used to assist China’s earthquake survivors through the purchase and distribution of relief supplies, coordination of logistics and transportation of disaster workers to the hardest hit areas, as well as reconstruction work in mainland China and Myanmar.
JAKKS Becomes the Newest Toy Industry Foundation PowerPlayer
JAKKS recently was honored by The Toy Industry Foundation (TIF) as a PowerPlayer for JAKKS leadership in the donor community. JAKKS has been a supporter of The Toy Bank since its inception and has donated toys to The Toy Bank for children in need around the world. Click here for more information.
On the Green Scene
Lighting is the single largest power use at our JDC warehouse. The new warehouse was built with triple the required skylights, to 3% of roof coverage, which eliminates the need to use electric lighting on sunny days. Projected savings is 60%-70% on monthly electricity bills and is estimated to have paid for itself in eight months. JDC warehouse uses only recycled pallets, which eliminates the need for over 260,000 pallets worth of wood annually. All equipment at JDC is electric or runs on LP Natural Gas rather than Diesel, including dock equipment and forklifts, and JDC Irrigation for planters and grass is all recycled water, which originates from the City of Industry recycling plant.
Back-to-School Essentials For Programs Nationwide and Across the Globe
JAKKS Cares recently donated more than $1 million worth of toys and school supplies to assist children in need during the back-to-school season. JAKKS supported the nationwide back-to-school programs of the Toy Industry Foundation, Feed The Children and the Los Angeles Unified School District to provide millions of underprivileged children around the world with a great start in school!
School supplies donated to the Toy Industry Foundation were distributed to underprivileged children around the world in partnership with Gifts in Kind International. JAKKS Cares donated writing instruments, markers, erasers, book covers, notebooks and more to Feed the Children®, to fill 100,000 backpacks loaded with essential school supplies that were distributed to boys and girls living in poverty in all 50 states.
Additionally, JAKKS Cares partnered with the Los Angeles Unified School District’s Books Of Summer Campaign by donating toys as incentive prizes for hundreds of children to read this summer. The Books of Summer Campaign is a summer-long program that encourages families to read together. And that’s not all – LAUSD got a truck load of school supplies so that local LA schools will have new supplies when they return to school after a long hot summer.
