Heart of Maia: Hopeful Heartbeats: 2018

Monday, November 19, 2018

Thank You!

Thank you everyone for making our 4th Annual Heart of Maia Toy Drive a success!! The kids at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital will be overjoyed to see new toy prizes during Thursday's Bingo!

Special thanks to our participating locations... we couldn't have done it without you! We appreciate all the love and support. We are so grateful for the generosity you've shown us each year. We look forward to working with all of you again!

Saturday, September 8, 2018

September 30th

3 WEEK TO GO

With just a few weeks away the toy drive is coming to an end. Get your toys down to one of our many locations before then. see below for locations. Something that is dear to my heart and one of the reasons we have the toy drive now, rather than during the holidays is a statement Marcus made.

We want to remind everyone we do not have our 501c at this time. For the past 4 years, we have done the toy drive All money donations we have always directed everyone to donate directly to UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital San Francisco, Child Life Department, memo line Heart of Maia.
Good news, we have started the process of becoming a 501c for 2019 and beyond.

He said "we collect toys now because some kids do not make it to Christmas"

Here are a couple of our latest videos thanking some of our support and more to come next year.

Please remember the toys will go to kids in the hospital so they must be

NEW AND UNWRAPPED!

Drop off toys at the following locations:

Gold Medal Martial Arts

999A Edgewater Blvd. Foster City

866 N. Delaware, San Mateo

390 El Camino Real, Ste. F, Belmont

461 W. El Camino Real, Mountain View

Penelope's Coffee & Tea
3 Plaza View Lane Ste. N, Foster City

Sandwich Monkey
3 Plaza View Lane, Foster City

Jacklyn Kurth Orthodontics
1291 E. Hillsdale Blvd. Ste. 200, Foster City

Philz Coffee
113 South B Street, San Mateo

2248 Westborough Blvd., Westborough
2116 Broadway, Redwood City

Orangetheory Fitness San Mateo
101 South B Street, San Mateo

Talbot's Toyland
445 South B Street, San Mateo

Diddalidoo
544 San Mateo Avenue, San Bruno

La Petite Playhouse
1264 Oddstad Drive, Redwood City

St. Augustine Church
3700 Callan Blvd., South San Francisco

Heff's Barbershop

693 Monterey Blvd, San Francisco

Putnam Lexus

390 Convention Way, Redwood City

San Jose Auto Works
599 N. 4th Street, San Jose

The Ford Store San Leandro
1111 Marina Blvd., San Leandro

Marin Acura

5860 Paradise Drive, Corte Madera

San Francisco Harley Davidson

333 Corey Way, South San Francisco

Alcatraz Harley Davidson
2595 Taylor Street, San Francisco

House of Thunder Harley Davidson
16175 Condit Road, Morgan Hill

Monterey Harley Davidson

700 Cannery Row, Monterey

West Coast Harley Davidson
333 N. Main Street, Salinas

Starbucks
4131 El Camino Real, Palo Alto
565 San Antonio Rd. Ste. 28, Mountain View
580 N. Rengstorff Avenue, Mountain View
1380 Pear Avenue, Mountain View
1037-C El Monte Avenue, Mountain View

750 Castro Street, Mountain View

809 A Cuesta Avenue, Mountain View

175 E. El Camino Real, Mountain View
111 De Anza Blvd, San Mateo

If you would like to donate toys and are not in the local San Francisco Bay Area,

you may purchase toys online (Amazon, etc.) and ship it to:
Heart of Maia

1347 Marlin Avenue, Foster City, CA 94404

For (tax deductible) monetary donations:

Credit card donations can be made online at:

UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Donation Page www.makeagift.ucsf.edu

You can make your donation in memory of Maia Mead.

Please make checks payable to UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital

and write on note/memo Child Life Dept.- Heart of Maia

Send to: UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals Foundation

P.O. Box 45339

San Francisco, CA 94145-0339

If you or your place of business would like to participate as a toy drop off location, please contact Rizza Mead at rzza123@hotmail.com or Gordon Mead at meadgr@yahoo.com.

To download the Hospital's Wish List click here:

UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital SF Wish List

Saturday, July 14, 2018

4th Annual Heart of Maia Toy Drive

This toy drive was started by Maia's big brother, Marcus, in 2015. He wanted to find a way to celebrate Maia's birthday each year and keep her memory alive. One of the things he always remembers about our hospital life is playing Bingo every Thursday. It was a time when all the kids, including siblings, gathered together in the hospital's Playroom for a game of Bingo, and every kid that participated won a toy! For patients like Maia who were unable to go down to the Playroom, they participated from their room as they watched the Bingo game on one of the hospital tv channels. Marcus not only looked forward to the game itself but he was eager to hang out with the patients. One boy in particular stood out to him. This boy had been a patient for over a year and every Thursday made it down to the Playroom in his hospital gown, dragging his IV pole alongside him. As tired and weak as this boy was, it didn't stop him from joining in on all the Bingo fun in the Playroom. Marcus realized how happy it made all the kids to receive a toy. It was something all the kids looked forward to, even more than he did, it seemed. These kids don't have the same opportunities as he has because they live in the hospital, and it makes him happy to see all the kids happy. So he started the Heart of Maia Toy Drive to make sure there are always toy prizes for all the kids! It's also perfect timing since most of the toys at the hospital are from the holiday toy drives and summer is when their supply starts to diminish. Unfortunately, Marcus also realized that many of these kids are not guaranteed a tomorrow and waiting for new toys during the holidays is not always an option for them...

that's why Marcus is so passionate about this toy drive.

Thank you for all your support!