Every three years Hasbro undergoes an extensive process to select  national and international organizations that embody the mission and vision of the Hasbro Children's Fund.

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 National Partners

The Hasbro Children's Fund partnered with Feeding America, formerly named America’s Second Harvest, to expand the national BackPack Program. Hasbro began supporting the rollout of the BackPack program in 2004 and in total has provided more than $700,000 to this initiative. Feeding America is a network of more than 200 food banks and food rescue, and is also the largest domestic hunger relief organization. Every year they feed over 23 million Americans, including 9 million children. The BackPack Program provides children in rural areas, where there are no food pantries, with backpacks full of nutritious, kid-friendly food for the weekend and during school breaks through discrete food distribution.

Through Hasbro's partnership, Feeing America is able to expand the BackPack Program into at least 24 additional areas, serving an additional 1,800 at-risk children each year. Currently more than 50 food banks have BackPack Programs, many as a result of the grant from Hasbro Children’s Foundation.



The Hasbro Children’s Fund partnered with The Association of the Hole in the Wall Camps (“The Association”), the world’s largest family of therapeutic camps for children with serious illnesses and life-threatening conditions. The Association is the nonprofit umbrella organization serving the Hole in the Wall Camps programs and camps throughout the world. The camps eliminate all obstacles to a child’s participation; there is no cost to the family for a child to attend. Activities are designed to empower all campers to experience success despite their disease or disability. Our partnership supports Hole in the Wall’s Campership Program and supported the Baton Rouge Initiative for children displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

Hasbro's grant is sending approximately 275 children nationwide to one of the Association’s summer camps through the Campership Program. Hasbro employees are involved as volunteers at the camps, and provide toys and games to support the camps as well.  In 2006, Hasbro’s grant allowed the Association to offer eight one week summer sessions serving 1,000 elementary and middle school children at the FEMA Baton Rouge trailer park in conjunction with the Boys and Girls Club.



With a grant from the Hasbro Children's Foundation, The Hasbro National Resource Center for Boundless Playgrounds was established in 1998 to help disadvantaged communities create Boundless Playgrounds projects. The Center's goals are to serve as a resource for technical, design, fundraising, project management and community development support, and to increase public awareness of the need for universally accessible recreation for all children.

Hasbro has continued to be the organization’s most ardent supporter. We have donated more than $2 million, helped establish a national resource center, launched an educational campaign, and helped develop Boundless Playgrounds in 24 disadvantaged communities across the country. Hasbro has also sponsored three signature playgrounds; the first in 2001 at Roger Williams Park in Rhode Island, in 2006, the Wilson Boundless Playground in Longmeadow, Mass.  In July 2008, we opened a Boundless Playground at Give Kids the World in Kissimmee, Fla.

In 2006 Boundless Playgrounds teamed up with Hasbro Inc.’s Playskool brand and GameTime, a playground equipment manufacturer, and in 2007 awarded one community a Boundless Playground worth up to $300,000 in the Playskool Win a Boundless Playground Essay Contest. The goal of the contest is to raise awareness that playgrounds should not exclude children with disabilities – instead, playgrounds can and should be places where everyone is included in the fun.  The partnership between Hasbro, Inc.’s Playskool Brand and Boundless Playgrounds is bringing Boundless Playgrounds to military bases where parents are undergoing rehabilitation and can now play with their children on these boundless play spaces.

At Hasbro, our primary goal is to provide children of all abilities with rich and enjoyable play experiences. In a Boundless Playgrounds children’s park, children who use wheelchairs, leg braces, or walkers can play on at least 70 percent of the playground without having to leave their support equipment behind. We’re delighted to help create these magical places.




In 2007, Hasbro Children's Fund began partnering with The Garth Brooks Teammates for Kids Foundation ("Teammates"). Teammates, a team built with integrity and in partnership with professional athletes, celebrities, organizations, and fans, exists to develop and implement innovative concepts that generate funds for the benefit of children's charities. The purpose of the Foundation is to contribute financial resources to selected nonprofit organizations that effectively serve and benefit children with an emphasis on health, education and inner city services.
Hasbro's funds will expand Child Life programs around the country.  Our support provides expansion grants, development of Children’s Zones and innovative programming for hospitalized children. 


 

The Hasbro Children’s Fund has partnered with Give Kids The World and Boundless Playgrounds to construct a fully integrated and universally accessible playground for children of all abilities. In addition, as part of Give Kids The World’s 20th Anniversary, Hasbro created a specialized Candy Land game in May 2006 that is given to each family staying at the Village. Every Thursday evening Hasbro sponsors the Give Kids the World Christmas Party. Each child that stays at the Village receives a toy; in all, more than 18,000 toys are donated each year to this effort.

Give Kids The World is a nonprofit organization that exists to fulfill the wishes of all children with life-threatening illnesses and their families from around the world. Through this organization, participants are able to experience a memorable, joyful, cost-free visit to Central Florida’s world famous attractions, and are able to enjoy the magic of the Give Kids The World Village as long as there is a need.

Global Partners

    

The Hasbro Children’s Fund partnered with Operation Smile, an organization whose volunteers repair childhood facial deformities while building public and private partnerships that advocate for sustainable healthcare systems for children and families. Operation Smile is the largest medical charity of its kind, treating nearly 100,000 children to date. More than 5,000 medical professionals from 23 countries serve as volunteers. Through the Physician’s Training Program, Operation Smile has trained more than 600 physicians from 23 countries.

Hasbro’s partnership with Operation Smile is supporting one mission a year for three years, thereby enabling surgeries for 150 children, as well as training and education for local doctors. Included in the mission costs, Operation Smile provides specialized medical equipment and supplies required for a 10-day mission.  In 2009, Hasbro’s funds will be used to support a mission in Brazil.

 

SOS Children's Villages is the largest charity dedicated to orphaned and abandoned children with over 470 villages in 132 countries worldwide.  Children who have been abandoned or orphaned come to SOS Children's Villages where they are integrated into a loving family environment.  They are nurtured and supported by an SOS Mother and up to 15 other children in their SOS home who become their SOS brothers and sisters.  Strong bonds develop within these "SOS families", and even after the children are grown and leave the village, these family relationships endure.

The Hasbro/SOS Global Partnership brings hope to SOS children through sponsorship in Brazil, Mexico, China, Russia and Poland.  This sponsorship will provide food, clothing, education & medical care for the children.





The Hasbro Children’s Fund partnered with World Vision to form the “Hasbro HIV/AIDS Initiative” in support of children infected with or affected by AIDS in Zambia. World Vision, one of the largest international relief agencies in the world, has established the RAPIDS program, a 6-year HIV/AIDS project in Zambia. RAPIDS is a consortium project of six non-governmental organizations, of which World Vision is the lead. Other partners include Africare, CARE International, Catholic Relief Services, Expanded Church Response, and the Salvation Army.

Hasbro’s partnership with World Vision is supporting school improvements including the purchase of desks, chalk boards, text books, radios for distance education programming in rural settings and construction materials for new schools. Our support also helps to send community schoolteachers for formal teacher training to improve their effectiveness in the classroom. Currently most teachers are volunteers and are not trained, and most children attending community schools are orphans. Hasbro funds are also allowing for the purchase of 10-ton trucks to transport commodities for vulnerable households.  Hasbro also provides toy and educational games for these children.

Local Partners

Hasbro Children’s Hospital is the pediatric division of Rhode Island Hospital and opened in 1994.  Annually, Hasbro, Inc. supports the Hasbro Children’s Hospital in a number of ways including the support of Child Life services, the Pediatric Imaging Center and the purchase of a pediatric ambulance.  We also supply the hospital with toys and games for distribution and use by the hospitalized children. 




The Hasbro Children’s Fund partners with Big Apple Circus to bring the Clown Care program to Hasbro Children’s Hospital. Clown Care brings laughter to the bedsides of hospitalized children in preeminent pediatric facilities nationwide. Its primary goals are to bring the joy of the circus ring into the hospital, and treat the healthy aspects of the child by incorporating humor as an essential element in the standard of care. Working one-on-one with hospitalized children - in partnership with their families, caregivers, and hospital personnel - these professional performers help ease the stress of serious illness and hospitalization by reintroducing laughter and fun as innate parts of life.

Hasbro’s partnership with Big Apple Circus brings the Clown Care program to Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Providence, RI. This support includes two Clown Doctors once a week at Hasbro Children’s Hospital. The Clown Doctors work with the Child Life staff and go throughout the hospital - including the emergency room, clinics, and bedsides - bringing laughter to children.