The Maine Millennial: Press Herald Toy Fund is a modern answer to the Magi

This newspaper’s readers have been helping families celebrate the holidays for more than seven decades.

After pandemic shuts down family business, grandmother turns to toy fund for help

The grandparents are trying to care for four grandchildren on one salary this year.

Mother asks for help: ‘It has been hard’

"With my unemployment running out, we are not sure how we can afford Christmas for the kids. The boys have been such great kids throughout everything ... and we are doing our best to keep things normal even though COVID is still around."

Toy fund volunteers ‘ready to go’ after many had to sit out 2020

While many longtime helpers are able to return to duty, the Press Herald Toy Fund will continue to operate using extra precautions against COVID-19.

More donations arrive for Press Herald Toy Fund

Donations add up for toy fund

Toy fund tops $260,000 in donations

Donors push Toy Fund over $250,000

There is no time limit for making a donation.

Donations adding up for toy fund

Donors, volunteers rally to help children in historic year