  {"id":170871,"date":"2022-12-20T16:12:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T02:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=170871"},"modified":"2022-12-20T16:12:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T02:12:04","slug":"toys-for-tots-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/12\/20\/toys-for-tots-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Record donations to Toys for Tots highlights community generosity"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_170872\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-170872\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/toys_for_tots_2022.jpg\" alt=\"Toys for Tots\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-170872\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/toys_for_tots_2022.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/toys_for_tots_2022-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/toys_for_tots_2022-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-170872\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A record haul of toy donations in 2022!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/dps\/\">Department of Public Safety<\/a> (<abbr>DPS<\/abbr>) collected a record number of new toys donated by campus employees, students, and community members for the Toys for Tots drive this year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/truck_toys_2022.jpg\" alt=\"Toys for Tots\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-170873\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/truck_toys_2022.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/truck_toys_2022-130x114.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Officers collected items throughout November and early December. This year\u2019s drive marks <abbr>DPS<\/abbr>\u2019 third year of collecting Toys for Tots at <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa. During this year\u2019s donation period, <abbr>DPS<\/abbr> collected hundreds of toys, filling nine large crates and making this their most successful drive to date.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are always grateful for the support shown by the community in collecting gifts during our Toys for Tots drive, and we truly appreciate everyone who donated,&rdquo; said <abbr>DPS<\/abbr> Chief <strong>Andrew Black<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Toys were collected in a variety of ways this year. Some departments set up smaller donation centers and later brought their contributions to <abbr>DPS<\/abbr>. <abbr>DPS<\/abbr> also picked up donations from on-campus locations.<\/p>\n<p>The high volume of donations shows that charity is alive and well at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa. <abbr>DPS<\/abbr> is grateful to all who contributed to this year\u2019s toy drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>DPS<\/abbr> M\u0101noa&#8217;s Department of Public Safety helps gather a record number of items for Toys for Tots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1196,821,9],"class_list":["post-170871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-department-of-public-safety","tag-public-safety","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170871"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170883,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170871\/revisions\/170883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}