TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — WFLA and its partner organizations collected thousands of donations for 2025’s Kindness Day collection event Friday.
Our partner organizations collected the following donations
- Toys for Tots – 14,000 toys
- Feeding Tampa Bay – 7500 pounds of food (6225 meals)
- Hillsborough Education Foundation – 900 pounds ($6800 worth of donations for hundreds of students and teachers)
- Tampa Rough Riders – 1700 bears
- One Blood – 25 donations
- Humane Society of Tampa Bay — About $3200 and about 20 homebound recipients and their pets.
“Thank you, Channel 8,” said Michael Cauger of the Tampa Rough Riders. “Thank you. Your viewers. Without you guys, this doesn’t happen. And we get repeat customers that come by that bring us bears and bears and bears. And every bear that comes in gets to go out.”
Did you miss Kindness Day and want to still help out? You can learn more about donating online on the WFLA Kindness Day page…