On Christmas Eve, Lefty O'Doul's collected 15,000 toys for the annual Firefighters Toy Program, and many more toys were dropped off at local fire stations or picked up and delivered for free by Luxor Cab throughout December.

On Christmas Day in the Tenderloin, more than 250 volunteers in the Tenderloin delivered 400 meals at Boeddeker Park and 2,000 door-to-door to single-room-occupancy residents, totalling 2,400 meals. Four hundred children also received gifts at Boeddeker Park yesterday.

St. Anthony's, who had requested donations of 2,500 scarves, ended up collecting over 7,000, including some from as far away as Australia and Japan.