{"id":95898,"date":"2025-11-17T09:51:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T13:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=95898"},"modified":"2025-11-18T12:14:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T16:14:48","slug":"eberly-center-hosting-fifth-annual-toy-drive-for-utoledo-student-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/11_17_2025\/eberly-center-hosting-fifth-annual-toy-drive-for-utoledo-student-parents","title":{"rendered":"Eberly Center Hosting Fifth Annual Toy Drive for UToledo Student Parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Catharine S. Eberly Center at The University of Toledo is hosting its fifth annual Toy Drive benefitting the children of student parents.<\/p>\n<p>The campus community can donate new, unopened toys to help UToledo\u2019s student parents celebrate the holidays with their children.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_89171\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89171\" class=\"wp-image-89171\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Eberly-Center-Toy-Drive-SIDE.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Rocky and Rocksy on the floor of the Eberly Center holding toys as part of the Eberly Center's annual Toy Drive.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Eberly-Center-Toy-Drive-SIDE.jpg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Eberly-Center-Toy-Drive-SIDE-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-89171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Catharine S. Eberly Center at is hosting its fifth annual Toy Drive benefitting the children of student parents through Dec. 1.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe Toy Drive is one of my favorite programs, supporting student parents through the Holiday Toy Exchange is always impactful,\u201d said Danielle Lutman, associate director for the Eberly Center. \u201cEvery year student parents express their gratitude and share their stories of the positive impact the Toy Drive has on them and their families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New, unopened toys can be dropped off at one of the donation sites on Main or Health Science Campus now through Monday, Dec. 1. A list of suggested donations and donation locations are available on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.utoledo.edu\/centers\/eberly\/studentparents\/toydrive.html\">Toy Drive webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Holiday Toy Exchange is scheduled from Monday, Dec. 8, through Friday, Dec. 12. Student parents can register for the Holiday Toy Exchange through Monday, Dec. 1, on the Eberly Center\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSc0ysqm4TLGnsJg-6LMPpnFbtf64eHQcDlGYczSB8NimzYYyg\/viewform\">Toy Drive Registration webpage<\/a>. In addition to one gift per child, student parents are able to receive diapers, coloring materials and one book per family.<\/p>\n<p>In the past four years, the Toy Drive has been able to provide 397 children toys through the Holiday Toy Exchange. We hope that this year is our biggest yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/11_17_2025\/eberly-center-hosting-fifth-annual-toy-drive-for-utoledo-student-parents\"><img width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Eberly-Center-Toy-Drive-SIDE-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"Photo of Rocky and Rocksy on the floor of the Eberly Center holding toys as part of the Eberly Center&#039;s annual Toy Drive.\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><p>New, unopened toys can be dropped off at one of the donation sites on Main or Health Science Campus now through Monday, Dec. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":89171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,1,47,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95898"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95906,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95898\/revisions\/95906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}