YMCA Annual Holiday Support Drive

GIVE THE GIFT OF JOY THIS HOLIDAY SEASON!
The YMCA of the Jersey Shore invites the community to participate in its YMCA Annual Holiday Support Drive—an effort that brings joy and comfort to local children and families in need. Each year, the Y provides complimentary gifts to parents and guardians who may not otherwise be able to fulfill their child’s holiday wishes. This initiative supports children and their siblings enrolled in Y Counseling & Social Services programs.

How You Can Help
Community members are encouraged to pick up a child’s wish list tag from the Y’s “Thanks for Giving” trees at participating YMCA locations in Red Bank, Freehold, and Old Bridge, NJ. Each tag includes 1 wish up to $50.

Please return the unwrapped gifts with the tag attached by December 8, 2025 so we may distribute them to the families.

Prefer to shop online? Visit ymcanj.org/YHD2025 to purchase items directly from the YMCA Amazon Wish List and have them shipped to the YMCA Eatontown Counseling office for arrival by December 8, 2025.

Other very important ways to be involved! Gifts purchased are returned to us unwrapped. So the families can take part and wrap the gifts themselves, we are in need of:

wrapping paper, gift bags, and tissue paper of all denominations
AA, AAA, C, and D batteries for toys,
tape and bows, and
gift cards to purchase wrapping supplies for our free wrapping station
Let’s make the season brighter—one child at a time.