COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 8, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Big Lots
announced today the conclusion of the company's eighth
point-of-sale fundraising campaign that benefits Nationwide
Children's Hospital. The "Give Big for Kids" campaign raised a
total of $3.05 million 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
$23 million through point-of-sale
operations.
One-hundred percent of the donations from Big Lots customers
will help fund lifesaving research and care at Nationwide
Children's.
"We have been so proud to continue our partnership with
Nationwide Children's Hospital and the lifesaving work they do,"
said Bruce Thorn, President and CEO
of Big Lots. "With each in-store campaign, our compassionate
customers and enthusiastic store teams continue to support our
mission of helping kids everywhere. They are the BIG difference for
a better life."
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. The Pavilion will open in March
2020, and the freestanding facility will be 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 families all over the country that we serve, I
thank Big Lots and their dedicated associates and customers for
helping us care for every child, for every reason," said
Steve Testa, President, Nationwide
Children's Hospital Foundation. "Through their vision, leadership,
and generosity, Big Lots is positively impacting pediatric
healthcare everywhere."
About Big Lots, Inc.
Headquartered in
Columbus, Ohio, Big Lots, Inc.
(NYSE: BIG) is a discount retailer operating 1,418 BIG
LOTS 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. 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 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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