Sullivans Toy Run

Sullivans Toy Run Sullivan’s Toy Run honors a special little boy. Through donations and fundraising events we provide

09/01/2023

Today starts the first day of Childhood Cancer Awareness month. Please donate to any cancer research or hospital if you can, think of all the kids that lost their lives to soon and their families. It’s all hard sending off and seeing kids being sent off to school and thinking of a child you lost that should be going but didn’t get that chance because of Cancer. As always, thank you in advance

Ricky Martin, has been one of major supporters since the beginning, and his diagnosis has been hard for us all to accept...
09/27/2022

Ricky Martin, has been one of major supporters since the beginning, and his diagnosis has been hard for us all to accept, please show some support for him and Stephen Parker Taylor with either $ or a share, and thank you always for your love, prayers, support, and compassion ❤️

Our dear friend Ricky was diagnosed with Stage 4 Small Cell Lung Cancer this past year. As you… Diane Pontious needs your support for Let’s Raise for Ricky !

This boy loved the snow!
02/05/2022

This boy loved the snow!

02/03/2022

We usually try to make a basket to raffle off on the anniversary of Sullivan’s passing, to aid in our fund raising. This year we will be taking a break from active fund raising, as a big supporter of our organization, has been diagnosed with “The Beast,” Cancer. My time and attention will be spent with them in helping get through treatment and recovery. I thank everyone for their support. Donations can still be made to Sullivan’s toy run on Facebook, we are saving again in order to get more PS5’s and games for the hospital. We thank you again for your continued support 🙏🏼

Tis the season!
11/26/2021

Tis the season!

We hope everyone had a filling and thankful day. Hopefully, this news fills your hearts, as much as your bellies, yester...
11/26/2021

We hope everyone had a filling and thankful day. Hopefully, this news fills your hearts, as much as your bellies, yesterday.
For the past few years, we have gotten the hospital gaming consoles, games, accessories, and boxes to put them in, to entertain the kids admitted to the hospital. Each year, they have asked for a PS5, and each year, we were unable to get one, because they were sold out. Until…. this year! With money saved from last year, we were finally able to get them a PS5! So, thank you for all your support over the past few years in helping us achieve goals and supply not only the hospital with gaming systems, but also being able to help independent families all over! Your generosity has helped so many kids and families touched by diseases and tragedies. We thank you and love you all!

I know that we have been quiet for awhile. But we are still here! We haven’t been doing to much fundraising because we k...
11/24/2021

I know that we have been quiet for awhile. But we are still here! We haven’t been doing to much fundraising because we know the impact that COVID had on a lot of families. But now with things getting back to normal, we are going to get back to it m. If you know of a family going through treatment or who has experienced loss and could use a small pick me up, please let us know! If you would like to donate, that would be much appreciated. The hospital has a wish list that we buy from every Christmas to continue to help them as well. So whether you donate to Sullivan’s toy run or simply go to the hospitals wish list, it’s fine by us! Thank you always for your continued support!

Hope everyone had as good of a holiday season as possible! As we are coming up on the third Anniversary of Sullivan’s pa...
02/02/2021

Hope everyone had as good of a holiday season as possible!
As we are coming up on the third Anniversary of Sullivan’s passing, we are asking for positive thoughts and prayers for Sullivan’s friend Charlie, his former hospital roommate, as he starts his treatment to fight Cancer for the third time.
Sullivan and Charlie were put into a shared room at the hospital, and no one could have expected that a 6 and 19 year old would have hit it off, their love for Jurassic World blossomed into a Cancer fighting friendship. Charlie and his family have become part of our extended family and are part of for life.
If anyone would like to donate, the family has a go fund me set up, I can link in the comments, we will be send packages to Charlie and his family, so you can donate to Sullivan’s Toy Run, or you can message us for information on where to send care packages.
Thank you all in advance for your continued support always 🙏🏼💚❤️💛

Hey Team Sully! This year things are different in the way that we are able to give to families and the hospital. With C...
12/09/2020

Hey Team Sully! This year things are different in the way that we are able to give to families and the hospital. With Covid, we can not collect toys and gift cards like we did in the past... But, with the generous donations we received, we were able to not only take care of the Medeiros family for Christmas, we were able to “adopt” a family from the hospital by buying out their wish list....AND we also bought a lot off of the Child Life Specialists’ wish list. There are still things that can be purchased if you would like to make a donation. It will be sent directly to the hospital. Whether it will be from Team Sully or you personally, every donation makes a difference! https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/KSBMQLXZTIKC?ref_=wl_share Also...if you’re unfamiliar or confused about what Child Life Specialists are all about, there is a great description at the top of their wishlist.

This is Nathan Medeiros. Nathan was diagnosed with Ewing Sarcoma just a few short months ago. He just turned 5 years old...
11/22/2020

This is Nathan Medeiros. Nathan was diagnosed with Ewing Sarcoma just a few short months ago. He just turned 5 years old. Ewing sarcoma is a rare type of cancer that occurs in bones or in the soft tissue around the bones. Nathan has a long road of treatment ahead of him, and so does his family; Elizabeth (Mom), Richardo (Dad), and brothers Jaiden (8yrs), and Elliott (9 mos). Thanks to a generous donation from the members of Shoreline Power Of Together, and despite COVID-19 destroying our plans for our second fundraising co****le tournament and carnival, we are once again able to take a little stress off the shoulders of a deserving family at Christmas time, at a time where it’s important for them to be able to focus on the health of their family. Thank you all for your continued support!

11/17/2020

It’s Christmas Time! Recently our organization was nominated to receive a donation from the “Power Of Together” group, By our friend Drew Haffey! We were chosen! Our plan is to help a family or two by giving them a Christmas, and what is Christmas without a tree🌲? Our friends at Pops Premium Ice Cream, MaryEllen Dan Spellman have gifted us a tree to go along with the amazing donation we received from Power Of Together. If you know a family that’s going through treatment, please let us know! We’d love to help them!

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Sullivan’s Toy Run is a 501c3 non-profit organization that honors a special little boy. Through donations and fundraising events we provide toys and gift cards, as well as updated electronics and gaming systems to hospitals, and families of children undergoing severe medical treatment. We started with a toy drive on February 4, 2018 when our son Sullivan passed away from complications of cancer. At his funeral service we honored him by collecting toys for the hospital that treated him: Yale New Haven Childrens Hospital. We celebrated his life with Disney music, a balloon artist, face painting, goody bags (his favorite party tradition), cupcakes, and lollipops. Afterwards we threw a big birthday party for him because he passed away so close to his seventh birthday.

Sullivan began his battle with an extremely rare form of brain cancer called Medulloepithelioma in February of 2017. To complicate an already rare condition was the fact that his brain tumor was actually in his pelvis (how does that work?). Sullivan experienced hundreds of tests, chemotherapy, radiation treatments, multiple surgeries, countless ER visits and hospital stays. Throughout all of that, he managed to keep his spirits up with the help of Child Life Specialists. The Child Life Specialists work together throughout the hospital helping children understand what is going on around them, and TO them. Whether it is major stuff like chemotherapy or surgery, or just a CT scan or MRI, they provide the child and family visual aids, education on each procedure, and entertainment and toys to help keep their spirits up and their minds in a positive space. The medical side of treatment is only half the battle when you are healing, and we found that the treatments were a little easier when Sullivan wasn't depressed about being sick all the time, losing his hair, or being hospitalized for long periods of time.

Having such unusual and eclectic taste, the child life specialists had to purchase and order things specifically suited to his tastes. They always went above and beyond to provide amusement every time we were admitted. They brought snow from outside, into our room to build a snowman once. Another time they filled syringes with paint and taped paper floor to ceiling in his room for him to splatter paint on. We managed to have a lot of good times, while being stuck in those rooms, in the midst of a terrible situation. We owe all of that to the Child Life Specialists. So, for us it only seemed appropriate to payback all those experiences with new ones, for other children going through treatments.

We hope to continue to provide the hospital with the necessary tools they need to help both the child and families. We take donations of new wrapped toys, all gift cards, and monetary donations. By following Sullivans Toy Run, you will stay up today on all of our fun upcoming events.