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<\/p>\nSacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Office Toy Project marks decades of giving, supports families year-round<\/p>\n
Organizers say the Toy Project has helped thousands of families over the years, with support reaching thousands of children each year. <\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWELCOME TO ATTEND. RIGHT NOW, THE SACRAMENTO COUNTY SHERIFF\u2019S OFFICE IS SPREADING HOLIDAY CHEER TO FAMILIES IN NEED. KCRA 3\u2019S ERIN HEFT JOINS US LIVE NOW TO TELL US HOW THIS TOY PROJECT IS CHANGING LIVES. YEP, CHANGING THE LIVES OF THOUSANDS OF KIDS ACROSS SACRAMENTO COUNTY. THEY\u2019RE GREETED BY THIS ADORABLE SETUP THIS MORNING. THE BALLOONS ARE DAY MAKING, AND I\u2019M ACTUALLY JOINED BY LEANDRO MARQUEZ, YOUR PRESIDENT OF THE TOY PROJECT. THIS HAS BEEN AROUND SINCE 1984. SO TALK TO ME ABOUT ITS IMPACT OVER THE YEARS. WELL, THE IMPACT WE\u2019VE GROWN EXPONENTIALLY, OBVIOUSLY, BUT AT THIS STAGE OF THE GAME, WE\u2019RE APPROACHING CLOSE TO 4 OR 5000 KIDS, NUMEROUS FAMILIES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY OF SACRAMENTO. IT\u2019S JUST A BUSY, REALLY EXCITING TIME OF YEAR. AND SO FAMILIES, THEY EITHER PICK UP THESE BIG BAGS OF, YOU KNOW, CHRISTMAS CHANGING TOYS OR THEY\u2019RE DISTRIBUTED TO FAMILIES. WHAT\u2019S INSIDE? IF YOU COULD JUST, LIKE, HELP EXPLAIN. SO WHAT YOU\u2019RE LOOKING AT WHEN A PERSON APPLIES THE BEST THING ABOUT OUR PROGRAM, PEOPLE ARE VETTED. SO WE VERIFY THEIR NEED, THEIR ACTUAL INCOME, THE FACT THAT THOSE ARE THEIR CHILDREN. BELIEVE IT OR NOT, WE\u2019VE HAD PEOPLE TRY TO SCAM THE SHERIFF\u2019S OFFICE, VERIFY THE KIDS, AND WE ASK, HEY, WHAT DO YOU WANT THIS YEAR? SO OFTENTIMES YOU\u2019D BE SURPRISED. SADLY, OUR KIDS WILL JUST ASK FOR A PACK OF SOCKS OR SOME NEW SHOES BECAUSE THEY\u2019RE WORN OUT. SO WHAT YOU\u2019RE LOOKING AT WITH THE BAGS ARE A VARIETY OF TOYS, RANGING IN AGE FROM BABIES ALL THE WAY UP TO YOUNG TEENS, AND THERE WILL BE A LOT OF CLOTHES, COATS, AND WE HAVE BICYCLES IN THE BACK. SO IF SOMEONE\u2019S WATCHING RIGHT NOW AND THEY GO, GOSH, I WISH I WAS ONE OF THE FAMILY SELECTED THIS YEAR, MAYBE NEXT YEAR. WHAT DO THEY DO? THEY SHOULD LOOK AHEAD OF TIME, LOOK AROUND THANKSGIVING TIME JUST BEFOREHAND, GO TO TOY PROJECT.ORG FOR INFORMATION AND START APPLYING EARLY. SUPER APPRECIATE YOUR TIME. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU. ABSOLUTELY. OKAY. AND IF YOU\u2019RE WATCHING RIGHT NOW AND YOU WISH THAT YOU COULD HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO ALL OF THESE TOYS THIS YEAR, WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY NEXT YEAR AND THE YEAR AFTER THAT, BECAUSE THIS HAS BEEN AROUND SINCE 1984. TOY PROJECT.COM.COM.ORG. ORG. TOY PRO\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Office Toy Project marks decades of giving, supports families year-round<\/p>\n
Organizers say the Toy Project has helped thousands of families over the years, with support reaching thousands of children each year. <\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\tUpdated: 12:15 PM PST Dec 19, 2025\n\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\tEditorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Office Toy Project, a program that has operated since 1984, continues its long-running mission to help make Christmas possible for local families by providing toys and gifts to children across the county.Organizers say the Toy Project has helped thousands of families over the years, with support reaching thousands of children each year. While the program is best known for its holiday giving, the Toy Project also provides toys and support year-round to children and their siblings staying in local hospitals, children impacted by domestic violence situations, and others facing difficult circumstances throughout Sacramento County.Community members can support the Toy Project throughout the year. More information is available at toyproject.org.See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tSACRAMENTO COUNTY, Calif. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n The Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Office Toy Project, a program that has operated since 1984, continues its long-running mission to help make Christmas possible for local families by providing toys and gifts to children across the county.<\/p>\n Organizers say the Toy Project has helped thousands of families over the years, with support reaching thousands of children each year. While the program is best known for its holiday giving, the Toy Project also provides toys and support year-round to children and their siblings staying in local hospitals, children impacted by domestic violence situations, and others facing difficult circumstances throughout Sacramento County.<\/p>\n Community members can support the Toy Project throughout the year. More information is available at toyproject.org.<\/p>\n See more coverage of top California stories here<\/a> | Download our app<\/a> | Subscribe to our morning newsletter<\/a> | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Office Toy Project marks decades of giving, supports families year-round Organizers say the Toy Project…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2820,3409,9747,55363,23615,55362,24714,50380,2646,671,55361,4576,121,357,2639,123,122,3489,3293,2734,42074,72],"class_list":["post-101630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-app","tag-child","tag-decade","tag-difficult-circumstance","tag-download","tag-family-year-round","tag-gift","tag-giving","tag-holidays","tag-more-coverage","tag-office-toy-project","tag-program","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-county","tag-sacramento-county-sheriff","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sheriffs-office","tag-thousand","tag-top-california-story","tag-toy-project","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}