Donate Toys & Goods

Your donation can help families find moments of joy

Families staying at our Stanford and San Francisco Ronald McDonald Houses rely on our community to meet every day needs. Your gift of soft pillows, fun toys and self-care items helps them relax and find moments of joy together. Our year-round donation program drives create easy opportunities to support families in need!

Important: To protect the health and safety of medically fragile children, all items must be new and unwrapped with original tags and packaging.

• Comfort Kids: Comfort Kits offer families a variety of arts and crafts, travel games or activity items for all ages. These items must be new and in their original packaging.
• Toiletry Kits: Toiletry kits help families meet basic needs and are instrumental to helping them feel comfortable and relaxed during stays at our Houses. We are in constant need of travel-sized items packaged in clear baggies. Hotel-style shampoos, conditioners, bar soaps, toothbrushes, toothpaste, and deodorants are welcome.
• Snack Packs: Snack packs offer families opportunities to grab quick (but important!) bites on the way to the hospital. Individually packaged, non-perishable snacks are always need. Pretzels, fruit snacks, granola bars, cookies, chips, small waters/drinks make for great snack packs!
• Seasonal: Valentine’s Day treats, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day baskets, and Camp Ronald McDonald House recreation kits help families celebrate special occasions and school breaks throughout the year.

Corporate and Community Groups

Comfort & Joy is a great way to engage clients and employees in collecting toys and essential goods to make holidays away from home a little easier this holiday season. We provide gifts tags for each highest-need items that can be displayed in your office or distributed to clients and staff members.

• Check our lists for each House (please see above)
• Request gift tags to display in your office or send to your clients
• Contact us to schedule a convenient drop off time
  • Amber Castañeda, development and event coordinator, can be reached at amber.castaneda@rmhcbayarea.org or 650.470.6007
  • Please include the number of requested tags and date(s) needed.

Families & Individuals

• Check our lists for each House (please see above)
• Purchase items from the list
• Ship or drop-off: For your convenience, you can have items directly shipped to our regional collection site (see address below) or drop items off anytime from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., seven days a week
• Contact Amber Castañeda at juan.hernandez@rmhcbayarea.org or 650.470.6007

Regional Shipping & Drop-off

Use this address is for both Stanford and San Francisco gifts:

Comfort & Joy
c/o RMHC Bay Area
510 Sand Hill Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304