JAKKS Pacific Donates Toys to Pacers Sports & Entertainment for the 9th Year
Published on December 14, 2018 under NBA G League (G League)
Indiana Mad Ants News Release
INDIANAPOLIS - For the ninth consecutive year, JAKKS Pacific Toy Company Chairman & CEO Stephen Berman and his company are providing Pacers Sports & Entertainment a major toy donation for distribution to Hoosier children.
Berman, a close friend of PS&E Owner Herb Simon, and JAKKS Pacific, one of the leading U.S. toy companies, will be providing toys to more than 50 youth-serving non-profit organizations throughout Indiana. The donation is part of the annual Pacers and NBA Season of Giving initiative.
The Indiana Pacers and Indiana Fever through their Pacers Cares and Fever Cares programs will tip off a state-wide distribution by joining local police departments in donation ceremonies in Kokomo, Anderson, Richmond, Fort Wayne, Terre Haute. Seymour and select sites in Indianapolis.
In Fort Wayne, the toy distribution will be in partnership with the Mad Ants, the Pacers' NBA G League affiliate. The Mad Ants have partnered with Lutheran Health, Associated Churches, Crossbridge Community Church, Euell A. Wilson Center, First National Baptist Church, Pathfinder Services, Victim Assistance and Wayne Township to aid in distributing more than 5,000 toys to local youth this holiday season.
Pacers mascot Boomer, Fever mascot Freddy Fever, Pacemates and Pacers front office staff will accompany each visit. In Indianapolis, the Pacers and Fever are again partnering with the Indiana National Guard in the distribution of toys to local agencies.
The toy giveaway will be highlighted on tomorrow when the Pacers host Milwaukee at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. There, Berman, Simon, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and members of both teams will participate in a toy distribution during pre-game and in-game festivities.
"For almost a decade now the children of Indiana have been the recipients of Stephen's continued generosity," said Pacers Sports & Entertainment President and COO Rick Fuson. "It's hard to imagine how many children, families and youth-serving organizations have had their holidays brightened because of this man."
JAKKS Pacific is based in California and has been designing, developing, producing and marketing toys and consumer products for children around the world since 1995. JAKKS Cares is the philanthropic arm of JAKKS Pacific and since its inception has donated more than $60 million in toys and monetary endowments to millions of underprivileged children around the world.
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