GAINESVILLE – (Press Release) Long & Foster Real Estate, the nation’s No. 1 independent residential real estate brand, has announced that its Gainesville office will support the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve in its Toys for Tots campaign this year. The office will launch its toy drive for Toys for Tots on November 12. Toys may be dropped off at the Gainesville office, located at 7526 Limestone Drive, weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. before December 14.
Once the toys are collected and presented to the U.S. Marines, they are distributed through churches and social welfare agencies to the neediest children throughout the community. Started by the U.S. Marines in 1947, the Toys for Tots campaign is an annual toy collecting drive that now reaches throughout 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. Toys for Tots has distributed millions of toys to millions of children over the years, and Long & Foster contributes to this effort by collecting thousands of new toys throughout the company’s Mid-Atlantic market area each year.