We accept donations of new in box dolls or gently used dolls without boxes and present them to organizations or directly to families who are recommended to us.
Depending on the occasion, we furnish doll-sized bags to place unboxed dolls in,
along with a change of clothes and either a hairbrush or an accessory piece, but we also take into account where one or more dolls are being transported.
But sometimes there are challenges. We don’t receive enough ethnic dolls for inner-city kids. Certain dolls are hard to match to the right child. Coordinating where and how dolls are donated takes time as well as money. And since we
first began in 2011, we were centered around collecting dolls to pass them forward to whoever was within our reach – making do with what we had.
In recent years, we’ve had inquiries from multiple U.S. states by prospective donors as well as contacts who have recommend families to us whom we’ve had to turn down based on the lack of enough ethnic dolls to donate, as well as not having the funding to comp what it would cost them to ship to us or for us to ship
to them.

We take donor intent seriously, which is why selling dolls is our last resort for meeting the needs of multiple girls at once. Instead, we’ve come up with other creative solutions, like the guys and dolls program for students in higher education, doll themed workshops, and incorporating dolls in our decor for events.

Many other entities similar to ours also exist to serve the needs of girls in their local areas – and through strategic partnerships with organizations and contacts around the country, we can assist donors in finding place near them where they can drop off dolls.