COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 23, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Big Lots announced
today the launch of its fall point-of-sale campaign, "Give Big for
Kids" that will benefit Nationwide Children's Hospital. Now through
October 27, Big Lots customers can
donate $1, $2, $5, or more at
checkout. One hundred percent of the dollars raised supports
lifesaving research and care at the hospital.
This past spring, Big Lots concluded its seventh point-of-sale
fundraising campaign on behalf of Nationwide Children's. A total of
$2.6 million was raised in more than
1,400 stores that employ over 35,000 Big Lots associates. Over the
past four years, the dedicated Big Lots team has raised nearly
$20 million through point-of-sale
operations.
"Our mission to help children is continuing," said Bruce Thorn, president and CEO of Big Lots.
"We're proud to partner with Nationwide Children's and the
lifesaving work they do every day. Together with our generous
customers and dedicated store teams, we're making a big difference
for a better life, and we're looking forward to another successful
campaign."
In 2016, Big Lots and the Big Lots Foundation joined Nationwide
Children's in addressing childhood behavioral health and mental
illness when they announced a $50
million transformational gift to the hospital to construct
the Big Lots Behavioral Health Pavilion at Nationwide Children's
Hospital. Scheduled to open in March
2020, the Pavilion will be a freestanding facility fully
dedicated to children and adolescents with behavioral health
conditions. It will be the largest behavioral health treatment and
research center dedicated to children and adolescents on a
pediatric medical campus in the U.S.
"On behalf of the patients, families and staff at Nationwide
Children's Hospital, I want to thank Big Lots and their committed
group of associates and loyal customers who support the hospital's
vision of delivering the best health care for children everywhere,"
said Steve Testa, president,
Nationwide Children's Hospital Foundation. "We could not be more
grateful for their continued and instrumental partnership."
For the past two years, the Big Lots Foundation has supported
the hospital's Butterfly Run, a family fitness event created to
help bring awareness to childhood behavioral and mental health.
This year, the Butterfly Run presented by the Big Lots Foundation
took place on September 14 at Alum
Creek Park North in Westerville,
Ohio, and attracted nearly 800 participants. For more
information on the Butterfly Run, visit butterflyrun.org.
To learn more about the "Give Big for Kids" campaign or to make
a donation online, visit biglots.com/give4kids.
About Big Lots, Inc.
Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, Big Lots, Inc. (NYSE: BIG) is
a discount retailer operating approximately 1,400 stores in 47
states with product assortments in the merchandise categories of
Furniture, Seasonal, Soft Home, Food, Consumables, Hard Home, and
Electronics, Toys & Accessories. Our mission is to help people
Live BIG and Save LOTS. We strive to be the BIG difference for a
better life by delivering unmatched value to our customers through
surprise and delight, being a "best places to work" culture for our
associates, rewarding our shareholders with consistent growth and
top tier returns, and doing good in our communities as we do
well.
About Nationwide Children's Hospital
Named to the Top
10 Honor Roll on U.S. News & World
Report's 2019-20 list of "Best Children's Hospitals,"
Nationwide Children's Hospital is one of America's largest
not-for-profit freestanding pediatric health care systems
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 13,000 providing state-of-the-art
pediatric care during more than 1.5 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 Abigail
Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital is one
of the Top 10 National Institutes of Health-funded freestanding
pediatric research facilities. More information is available
at NationwideChildrens.org.
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