COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 13, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Big Lots, Inc.
(NYSE: BIG) announced today that its 2016 "Give Big for Kids"
campaign raised $3.6 million for
lifesaving pediatric research and care at Nationwide Children's
Hospital, a $1.4 million increase
over last year's campaign donation to the hospital of $2.2 million.
The six-week-long campaign offered customers and associates the
opportunity to donate in-store and online to support Nationwide
Children's, which is based in Columbus,
Ohio, but cares for patients from all 50 U.S. States and 41
countries. Funds raised will help benefit state-of-the-art
facilities, revolutionary research and available lifesaving
treatments.
The campaign also included shopping sprees for hospital patient
champions representing Big Lots in seven markets across the
country, including California,
Florida, Pennsylvania, North
Carolina, Ohio,
Tennessee and Texas. Patient champions are children who are
being treated or have been treated at Nationwide Children's and
this year's Big Lots patient champions had an opportunity to shop
at their local Big Lots store for gifts to send back to patients at
Nationwide Children's to enjoy.
In addition to spearheading the Give Big for Kids campaign, on
August 31, 2016, Big Lots together
with the Big Lots Foundation announced a $50
million transformational gift to Nationwide Children's
Hospital. This gift will support the construction of the Big Lots
Behavioral Health Pavilion. The 250,000-square-foot pavilion on the
hospital's main campus will foster collaboration with Nationwide
Children's research teams, as well as community partner agencies to
help care for children and teens with mental illness and behavioral
health conditions.
"On behalf of Big Lots, I want to express sincere thanks to our
customers and associates and their generosity for making a
tremendous difference in the lives of the many patients at
Nationwide Children's Hospital through their kind donations," said
David Campisi Big Lots CEO and President. "Our patient champions
continue to inspire the Big Lots community, and we are so thrilled
to have exceeded our goal of $3
million for this year's Give Big for Kids program. We look
forward to continuing our support for the hospital through similar
donation programs in the future and our commitment to the
Behavioral Health expansion."
To learn more about Big Lots, speak with a company
representative or arrange a store visit, contact the Big Lots media
hotline at 877-251-0243 or visit BigLotsMedia.com.
About Big Lots, Inc.
Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, Big Lots, Inc. (NYSE: BIG) is
a unique, non-traditional, discount retailer operating 1,445 Big
Lots stores in 47 states with product assortments in the
merchandise categories of Food, Consumables, Furniture, Seasonal,
Soft Home, Hard Home, and Electronics & Accessories. Our vision
is to be recognized for providing an outstanding shopping
experience for our customers, valuing and developing our
associates, and creating growth for our shareholders. Big Lots
supports the communities it serves through the Big Lots Foundation,
a charitable organization focused on four areas of need: hunger,
housing, healthcare and education. For more information about the
company, visit www.biglots.com.
About Nationwide Children's Hospital
Named to the Top
10 Honor Roll on U.S. News & World Report's
2016-17 list of "America's Best Children's Hospitals," Nationwide
Children's Hospital is America's largest not-for-profit
freestanding pediatric healthcare system providing wellness,
preventive, diagnostic, treatment and rehabilitative care for
infants, children and adolescents, as well as adult patients with
congenital disease. Nationwide Children's has a staff of more than
11,000 providing state-of-the-art pediatric care during more than
1.2 million patient visits annually. As home to the Department of
Pediatrics of the Ohio State University
College of Medicine, Nationwide Children's physicians train the
next generation of pediatricians and pediatric specialists. The
Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital is one of the
Top 10 National Institutes of Health–funded freestanding pediatric
research facilities. Nationwide Children's remains true to the
original mission since its founding in 1892 of providing care
regardless of a family's ability to pay. More information is
available at NationwideChildrens.org.
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