Over the 2025 holiday season, many stores and corporate team members came together to make Christmas morning brighter for many families and children by organizing toy drives and volunteering their time. Their generosity, creativity, and energy resulted in hundreds of Christmas gift wishes coming true for children living in the communities we serve. Their holiday-spirit stories warm the heart:
The CASA Giving Tree Campaign
In Oregon, stores and support teams from Medford, Grants Pass, and Portland partnered with the CASA Giving Tree campaign, a holiday program that provides new toys, clothes, and gift cards to children in foster care or who are removed from homes due to abuse or neglect.
This annual campaign allows community members to select gift tags from local "Giving Trees" and fulfill specific child needs.
Special Delivery in Medford
In southern Oregon, a month-long effort to fulfill all of the CASA gift requests on the Home Office’s giving tree culminated in a festive cavalcade—complete with a police escort, a Grinch, guest GMs, and Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus—stopping by to collect all the donated gifts. Team members came out in holiday attire to help load the “CASA sleigh” and take photos with Santa before the gifts were personally delivered to the nearby CASA offices.
Check out the Special Delivery!:
Merry & Bright in Portland
Up north, LAD teams partnered with CASA of Washington County to help over 100 children in foster care receive their special gift request, along with some essential everyday items. The team ensured that every child’s gift request was fulfilled, and to make each gift as special as possible, volunteers personally shopped for the items, wrapped each gift, and created a handmade holiday card for each child. As an added bonus, Driveway.com and DFC teams gave each child a holiday gift bag full of goodies and a gift card.
A Network of Holiday Cheer!
We wish we could spotlight every LAD store and volunteer who went the extra mile to give back to their communities this holiday season, but the following examples offer a strong representation of what was happening across our vast store network:
- Audi Newmarket (Ontario, Canada)—Supported the local Holiday Heroes Campaign with a vehicle sponsorship and donation collection effort, plus donated monies to a family in need for Christmas gifts
- DCH Millburn Audi (New Jersey)—Donated turkeys to local community and teamed up with the Maplewood Police Department for annual Christmas gift drive
- DCH Tustin Acura (California)—Partnered with a local rescue mission to bring holiday cheer to those who needed it the most by collecting food items and collecting gifts
- Garden City CJDR (Michigan)—Donated $5,000 to Samaritas Family Center to help families with Christmas gifts, in addition to a truckload of toys, clothing, and food items
- Great Falls CJDR (Montana)—Provided many local homeless children with winter coats and gifts for Christmas
- Kia of North Austin (Texas)—Raised over $12,000 for its annual Blue Santa toy drive
- Lithia Ford Lincoln of Boise (Idaho)—Collected new toys from customers and employees to support local Toys for Tots drive
- Lithia Hyundai of Odessa (Texas)—Donated several boxes of wrapped gifts to local Toys for Tots drive
- Mercedes-Benz of Paramus (New Jersey)—Partnered with the local police department to support Toys for Tots and hosted a Picture Day with Santa event for customers and community members
- Priority Toyota Chesapeake (Virginia)—Supported the community’s "Home for the Holidays" campaign with the local shelters
- Ray Laks Honda (New York)—Partnered with local nonprofit, Peaceprints, to help out four families during the holiday season
- Suburban Ann Arbor (Michigan)—Raised over $5,000 in toy donations for Bottomless Toy Chest campaign
- Wilde Subaru (Wisconsin)—Raised $50,000 to support Waukesha Food Pantry during its December “Share the Love” campaign
