COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 30, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Big Lots announced
today the completion of the company's sixth point-of-sale
fundraising campaign benefitting Nationwide Children's Hospital.
The "Serve Families. Give Big" campaign included all 1,416 Big Lots
stores and over 35,000 Big Lots associates working to collect over
$3.2 million dollars in customer
donations.
"Our team of dedicated associates and Big Lots' customers from
all over the country responded generously with donations to make a
difference in the lives of families and children across the
country. In just over three years, our teams have raised over
$17 million dollars through our point
of sale campaigns with 100% of all proceeds raised going directly
to Nationwide Children's Hospital." stated Tim Johnson, Chief
Administrative Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Big Lots.
"Big Lots and their customers from all over the country continue
to demonstrate their kindness following another successful
campaign," said Steve Testa,
President, Nationwide Children's Hospital Foundation. "This
generosity will impact all the patients and families who will walk
through Nationwide Children's Hospital's doors for years to
come."
In addition to its financial commitments and support, Big Lots
has partnered with Nationwide Children's Hospital to create the
Butterfly Run. The goal of the family-fitness event is to end
the stigma often associated with childhood mental illness, as well
as raise funds for much needed child and adolescent behavioral
health research. Two Butterfly Runs have already taken place,
including one in Columbus, Ohio,
during the summer and another in Charlotte, N.C., earlier this fall. The third
and final Butterfly Run of 2018, will occur in the Phoenix/Tempe
area on Nov. 3.
In 2016, Big Lots and the Big Lots Foundation announced a
$50 million transformational gift to
Nationwide Children's to construct the Nationwide Children's
Hospital Big Lots Behavioral Health Pavilion. Scheduled to open in
Spring 2020, the Pavilion will be a freestanding facility fully
dedicated to children and adolescents with behavioral health
conditions and will be the largest behavioral health treatment and
research center on a pediatric medical campus in the United
States.
About Big Lots, Inc.
Headquartered in Columbus,
Ohio, Big Lots, Inc. (NYSE: BIG) is a community retailer
operating more than 1,400 BIG LOTS stores in 47 states, dedicated
to friendly service, trustworthy value, and affordable solutions in
every season and category – furniture, food, décor, and more. We
exist to serve everyone like family, providing a better 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 2018-19 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
1.4 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. More information is available at
NationwideChildrens.org.
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