COVID-19 precautions for holiday drive donations are in effect. Please follow posted signs for outdoor drop-off procedures. Masks are required. If you feel sick, please stay home and contact us to make alternative arrangements.
Important: To protect the health and safety of medically fragile children, all items and food must be new, unused, and unwrapped with original tags and packaging.

Provide Comfort & Joy This Holiday Season
Organize a team to collect wish list items for critically ill children & families
Comfort & Joy is our biggest donation drive of the year
Rally your co-workers, customers, and community to collect toys, basic need items, and household goods to make holidays away from home a little easier for sick children and their families.
Planning for COVID-19
Comfort & Joy offers an impactful opportunity to support families in need! Due to COVID-19 restrictions, this year may look different. But we know the creativity and care of people like you will make it a fun, safe holiday activity for everyone.
Ways to participate
- Purchase wish list items and send them directly to our regional location. Staff will wrap and distribute gifts and stock basic need items across our locations.
- Organize a Comfort & Joy wrapping party
- Contact Mallory Mroz to arrange an RMHC Bay Area staff member to attend a virtual wrapping party.
- Ask your group to bring wish list items and get creative by wrapping items for families
- NOTE: since families will need to know what item is inside, please wrap each item individually and snap a picture of the item to attach to the present
- Add a personal touch by including a holiday wishes
- Take pictures and tag us on social media @RMHCBayArea #ComfortAndJoy
- Contact us to organize a social distanced drop-off of wrapped presents
- Let us do the shopping for you! If you’ve already got a million things going on, you can donate gift cards to stores like Target, Walmart, and Safeway for families and/or make a direct donation online: www.rmhcbayarea.org/donate.
If you have any questions or would like more information, please reach out to our Community & Corporate Engagement Manager, Mallory Mroz mallory.mroz@rmhcbayarea.org.
A Special Message from the Waits Family
Sign-up for Comfort & Joy
If you’re interested in participating and want to know what we need the most, please click the button below and fill out the form. When planning, keep in mind that we will be accepting through December 24.
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Comfort & Joy is our biggest donation drive of the year
Rally your co-workers, customers, and community to collect toys, basic need items, and household goods to make holidays away from home a little easier for sick children and their families.
A Special Message from the Waits Family
Planning for COVID-19
Comfort & Joy offers an impactful opportunity to support families in need! Due to COVID-19 restrictions, this year may look different. But we know the creativity and care of people like you will make it a fun, safe holiday activity for everyone.
Ways to participate
- Purchase wish list items and send them directly to our regional location. Staff will wrap and distribute gifts and stock basic need items across our locations.
- Organize a Comfort & Joy wrapping party
- Contact Mallory Mroz to arrange an RMHC Bay Area staff member to attend a virtual wrapping party.
- Ask your group to bring wish list items and get creative by wrapping items for families
- NOTE: since families will need to know what item is inside, please wrap each item individually and snap a picture of the item to attach to the present
- Add a personal touch by including a holiday wishes
- Take pictures and tag us on social media @RMHCBayArea #ComfortAndJoy
- Contact us to organize a social distanced drop-off of wrapped presents
- Let us do the shopping for you! If you’ve already got a million things going on, you can donate gift cards to stores like Target, Walmart, and Safeway for families and/or make a direct donation online: www.rmhcbayarea.org/donate.
If you have any questions or would like more information, please reach out to our Manager, Corporate and Community Engagement, Mallory Mroz at mallory.mroz@rmhcbayarea.org.
Sign-up for Comfort & Joy
If you’re interested in participating and want to know what we need the most, please click the button below and fill out the form. When planning, keep in mind that we will be accepting through December 20.