Every Christmas we team up with local schools, businesses, organizations and neighbors to fill shoeboxes with toys, toiletries, snacks and other awesome stuff. Two days before Christmas, our volunteers deliver them door-to-door to kids all over Erie and Huron counties.
▶ Watch Project Happy in actionSee if we're delivering on your street, find the drive-thru, or ask us to come to you.
For families →How to pack it, labels to print, and where to drop it off.
For donors →Bring yourself, your family, your team or your class to pack, sort or deliver.
For volunteers →Schools, teams, churches and offices: run a box drive or a wrapping party.
For groups →Rally your staff, or sponsor gift boxes or a bulk toy order.
For businesses →In Sandusky and Huron, we deliver door-to-door on our routes on December 23, or you can come to the drive-thru. In Norwalk, Wakeman, New London and Monroeville, send us a request.
Grab a shoebox, pick a boy or girl and an age group, and fill it with small toys, school supplies, hygiene items and wrapped treats. Wrap it, tape on a Project Happy label, and drop it off.
Rather give money? $25 provides a great gift box. Donate online
Hundreds of volunteers make Project Happy happen. Come to a packing party, help on sort night, or hand out gifts on delivery day, in Erie and Huron County.
Schools, teams, churches and offices run box drives, throw wrapping parties and help pack, sort and deliver.
Rally your staff, or sponsor gift boxes or a bulk toy order. Thirteen local businesses and organizations collected boxes last year.
We turn our trucks into mobile Christmas tree lots and deliver free live trees, already in stands, door-to-door around Erie County. We announce the dates and the tree request form on Facebook, so follow us there to get one.
Our trucks become mobile pumpkin patches at 5 local parks and neighborhoods in Erie County. Kids pick any pumpkin they like, decorate it, get their faces painted and hang out with us. Follow us on Facebook to hear when and where.
Not if you're on a delivery street or can come to the drive-thru. The request form is only for families who can't do either.
No. A request isn't a guarantee. We fill as many as we can, depending on the boxes and volunteers we have that year.
Boxes are packed for boys and girls in three age groups: 3–5, 6–9 and 10–12. We also collect diapers for little ones up to size 6.
Erie County boxes are due at a drop spot by December 17, and Huron County boxes by December 18.
Yes. $25 provides a great gift box. You can donate online, or make a check payable to OHgo.
Yes, and we'd love that. Groups run box drives, hold wrapping parties, and help sort and deliver. See ideas for groups.