Holiday Layaway Donations are when a benefactor pays for another person's

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purchases, so the layaway participant receives their purchases for free. Layaway donations are common during the Christmas shopping season and are sometimes given anonymously. The popularity of holiday layaway donations has been growing since 2011. Layaway donations have been donated by well-known people such as Tim Tebow, and Marcus Morris and

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. Payaway the Layaway is a charity foundation that often teams up with athletes and celebrities to collects money to pay off layaway purchases.

Notable Donations in 2016

Professional baseball player

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surprised 43 families in

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by paying for their layaway purchases. Professional basketball player

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paid several thousand dollars for toy purchases that were on layaway in

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of the

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paid for Christmas gifts for several families in

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Notable Donations in 2017

Professional basketball players Marcus Morris and

paid for gifts put on layaway at a Philadelphia

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Notable Donations in 2018

Director and actor

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donated $430,000 in layaway items at two

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, owner of the sandwich chain “ Jimmy John’s” donated more than $81,000 to Walmart shoppers in

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. Singer and songwriter

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donated $81,000 to a Walmart in

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" challenged its viewers to pay off layaway purchases, and raised more than $200,000 for the cause.{{Cite web, url=https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Living/layaway-angels-spreading-holiday-cheer-christmastime/story?id=59920008, title=Military families surprised with holiday layaways paid off on 'GMA', date=2018-12-22, website=ABC News, language=en, access-date=2018-12-24

References

Charities based in the United States