Fox TV News team recently completed an interview with Sasha Lipton, founder of Second Chance Toys. The segment includes coverage of a plastic toy donation for the holidays to Harmony House, an organization serving children from the community in Newark, NJ. Stay tuned for details on the expected air date.
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Dec 13, 2009
Fox TV News Preparing Holiday Segment on Second Chance Toys
Fox TV News team recently completed an interview with Sasha Lipton, founder of Second Chance Toys. The segment includes coverage of a plastic toy donation for the holidays to Harmony House, an organization serving children from the community in Newark, NJ. Stay tuned for details on the expected air date.
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Drive Will ‘Rob’ Landfills and Give to Needy Children
Madison fourth graders help children, and the environment
MADISON – A group of Madison fourth graders has teamed up with Investors Savings Bank at 16 Waverly Place to help children, and the environment.
Youngsters are being asked to bring gently used plastic toys to the Torey J Sabatini School, 359 Woodland Road, and the Kings Road School, 215 Kings Road, from Monday, April 20, through Thursday, April 24.
The school-based toy drive was the idea of fourth grader Paige Burnet, who was looking for a way to volunteer in a community service project. She found one on the Internet: the New Jersey-based nonprofit “Second Chance Toys,” which collects used plastic toys and distributes them to needy children.
According to the organization’s Web site, “Second Chance Toys is a community-based initiative which rescues unwanted plastic toys that are gently used and distributes them to less fortunate children through local community organizations, while at the same time, helping the environment.”
Explained Paige, “Needy children get toys, and less plastic ends up in the landfill.”
Paige recruited seven of her friends - Lydia Mutone, Jessica Sterkel, Caroline Glynn, Mackenzie Driscoll, Owen Matthews, Beatrice Stadler and Maura Henry – to help promote the project, and transport the toys.
Finding A Partner
As luck would have it, Paige discovered that in celebration of Earth Day, Investors Savings Bank was partnering with “Second Chance Toys” and setting up drop-off locations at all of its New Jersey branches.
Madison Branch Manager Marsha Ann Zimmerman agreed to allow the children to bring toys collected at their schools to the branch at 16 Waverly Place for pickup.
“We have plenty of space, and are happy to do what we can to help,” said Zimmerman. “This is a great program that helps both children and the environment.”
The final piece of the puzzle was setting up drop-off locations at the schools, and Superintendent of Schools Richard Noonan arranged for the Torey J Sabatini School and Kings Road School collection sites.
According to the “Second Chance Toys” Web site, “We focus on plastic toys - which don’t biodegrade in landfills - such as Little Tikes and Fisher Price brands that are clean and in working order.”
Youngsters are being asked to bring gently used plastic toys to the Torey J Sabatini School, 359 Woodland Road, and the Kings Road School, 215 Kings Road, from Monday, April 20, through Thursday, April 24.
The school-based toy drive was the idea of fourth grader Paige Burnet, who was looking for a way to volunteer in a community service project. She found one on the Internet: the New Jersey-based nonprofit “Second Chance Toys,” which collects used plastic toys and distributes them to needy children.
According to the organization’s Web site, “Second Chance Toys is a community-based initiative which rescues unwanted plastic toys that are gently used and distributes them to less fortunate children through local community organizations, while at the same time, helping the environment.”
Explained Paige, “Needy children get toys, and less plastic ends up in the landfill.”
Paige recruited seven of her friends - Lydia Mutone, Jessica Sterkel, Caroline Glynn, Mackenzie Driscoll, Owen Matthews, Beatrice Stadler and Maura Henry – to help promote the project, and transport the toys.
Finding A Partner
As luck would have it, Paige discovered that in celebration of Earth Day, Investors Savings Bank was partnering with “Second Chance Toys” and setting up drop-off locations at all of its New Jersey branches.
Madison Branch Manager Marsha Ann Zimmerman agreed to allow the children to bring toys collected at their schools to the branch at 16 Waverly Place for pickup.
“We have plenty of space, and are happy to do what we can to help,” said Zimmerman. “This is a great program that helps both children and the environment.”
The final piece of the puzzle was setting up drop-off locations at the schools, and Superintendent of Schools Richard Noonan arranged for the Torey J Sabatini School and Kings Road School collection sites.
According to the “Second Chance Toys” Web site, “We focus on plastic toys - which don’t biodegrade in landfills - such as Little Tikes and Fisher Price brands that are clean and in working order.”
Apr 17, 2009
A Toy Drive's Dual Lessons
Monday, April 13, 2009
NorthJersey.com
STAFF WRITER
HELP THE NEEDY AND RECYCLE, KIDS LEARN
The New Jersey Children's Museum in Paramus is in the midst of a second drive to collect toys for needy kids while at the same time teaching children the value of recycling.
As of Sunday, the museum had received a couple dozen donations as part of its collaboration with Second Chance Toys, a Mountainside charity that collects used plastic items and redistributes them to families who can't afford to buy toys.
"It teaches children to understand what recycling is, how they can help the environment while helping other children," said Josephine DaCosta, the museum's assistant manager. She added that the museum put on its first Second Chance Toys drive last April, when the staff decided they needed an environmental project to coincide with Earth Day.
"We collected about 250 toys last April," DaCosta said. That effort was so successful, she added, that the museum put on another drive around Thanksgiving – taking in 350 more.
The current collection campaign runs through this month but will be a major focus this weekend, which is just before Earth Day on April 22.
"We're having a recycling weekend next weekend, where we'll be teaching children how to take part in recycling," DaCosta said. "We're also going to be doing crafts using recycled materials and we'll have special music programs."
The museum is accepting plastic toys suitable for children up to age 6. "They must be of substantial size — no small pieces — and they have to be working. If they need batteries, they have to have batteries," DaCosta said. "We clean them up and disinfect them."
Anyone who brings a suitable toy to the museum receives a coupon for a free return visit.
Second Chance Toys, which was created three years ago by Sasha Lipton, then a Mountainside high school student who now attends Northwestern University, distributes the toys to local non-profits. DaCosta said this year's recipient organizations haven't been selected yet. Last year, she said, the toys were sent to Concerned Parents for Head Start in Paterson and the Bergenfield Head Start program.
CHRIS PEDOTA/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Josephine DaCosta of the New Jersey Children's Museum in Paramus with donated toys. The museum's collection drive corresponds with Earth Day, which falls on April 22.
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Sasha Lipton, Founder of Second Chance Toys to Speak at Good & Green Conference in Chicago
In conjunction with the 2008 Good & Green Marketing Conference, Sasha Lipton, founder of Second Chance Toys, will be speaking about what drew her to launch her green initiative in 2006 to rescue and recycle plastic toys for needy children (www.goodandgreen.biz/bios.php#lipton). As part of the conference program being held in Chicago, IL December 3-4, a plastic toys collection effort will be held, culminating at the Chicago Cultural Center. For more information, visit www.goodandgreen.biz
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Sasha Lipton Gets The Spotlight at Governer Livingston High School
Sasha Lipton, founder of Second Chance Toys, receives the Student Spotlight in the April issue of The Highlander, the Governer Livingston High School newspaper. Recognized for her community leadership, Sasha indicated that seeing the smiling faces of the children receiving the rescued plastic toys is the ultimate satisfaction.
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Sasha Lipton Selected as Distinguished Finalist in The 2008 Prudential Spirit of Community Awards
Sasha Lipton, founder of Second Chance Toys, was selected to receive a bronze Distinguished Finalist medallion in the 2008 Prudential Spirit of Community Awards for recognition of outstanding volunteer work. As part of her community service work, Sasha has also qualified for the President's Volunteer Service Award on behalf of the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation.
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Oct 29, 2007
Sasha Lipton, Founder of Second Chance Toys, Honored for Distinguished Achievement in Community Service
Sasha Lipton was named the Governor Livingston High School Volunteer of the Year in The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards program. Sponsored by Prudential Financial and the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP), the awards recognize outstanding community service by young Americans. Sasha is now eligible for the New Jersey Youth Volunteer of the Year awards. Two State Honorees, one middle level and one high school student, will be named in February. Each will receive a $1,000 award, a silver medallion, and a trip to Washington, D.C., for recognition ceremonies.
Oct 17, 2007
Sasha Lipton Speaks to Children at Our Lady of Peace Parish about Second Chance Toys
Presenting to over 30 children and adults at Our Lady of Peace Parish in New Providence, NJ, Sasha Lipton, founder of Second Chance Toys, told her story about the formation of the organization to rescue and refurbish discarded toys for needy children. Inspired by the work of Second Chance Toys, the children of the Service Saturday Youth Ministry got together to clean toys (click here to see photos) in preparation for donation to needy kids in the area.
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The Joan Hamburg Show on WOR Radio 710 Loves Second Chance Toys
The Joan Hamburg Show on WOR Radio 710 raved about the merits of Second Chance Toys on their program dedicated to Green Living. While Sasha was at field hockey practice, her mom called into the show and explained how Sasha started the organization to rescue, refurbish and recycle plastic toys. During the commercial break, Emme who was sitting in for Joan Hamburg must have gone onto the SCT website because once back on air, she was so excited about the mission of the organization and urged people who wanted to donate toys or start chapters to go to our website.
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