MCL Detachment Toys For Tots AAR_SOP & FAQ’s - Ver 1
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Detachment After Action Report (AAR)
SOP & FAQ’s
Purpose:
To create awareness of the full support the Marine Corps League provides to the Marine Toys For Tots
Foundation. To capture all data from local Detachments who support the Marine Tots For Tots program.
To share lessons learned, marketing ideas and unique fundraising events with the MCL membership. To generate
a report by the MCL National Toys For Tots Liaison for each National Mid-Winter Conference and National
Convention. To encourage Detachments not currently involved with the Marine Toys For Tots program to come
aboard.
Background:
Marine Toys For Tots is an official program of the Marine Corps Reserve. The Marine Toys For Tots Foundation is
the official IRS 501(c)3 non-profit organization that administers the TFT program nationwide. They oversee both
the Marine Corps Reserve Unit Coordinators and approved Local Area Coordinators. The Marine Toys For Tots
Foundation currently requires all Local Area Coordinators and Marine Corps Reserve Unit Coordinators to submit
a comprehensive AAR directly to the TFT Foundation at the end of each campaign season.
If a Detachment supports a Marine Corps Reserve Unit, your contributions are rolled up into their data. The MCL
at the national level has no way to track or give you credit for all the hard work done by your Detachment.
If your Detachment is an official sponsor of a local campaign, MCL National will receive your data beginning with
the 2018 campaign season.
Completing the MCL Detachment Toy For Toys AAR:
The form is self-explanatory. Just answer the questions. You may include any noteworthy or unique event flyers,
marketing ideas, fundraising events or volunteer appreciation awards/certificates, etc.
We understand that Detachments who support a Marine Corps Reserve Unit may have trouble estimating the
number of toys or monetary donations when conducting joint USMCR/MCL operations. Typically the USMCR takes
all the toys and donations with them. Do your best. What we are really looking for are any MCL specific events or
fundraisers that only the MCL participates in and donates directly to a USMCR program (i.e. #1-Det has a table in
the local mall worked only by MCL membership and collects donations and toys…count those toys and monetary
donations prior to handing them off the USMCR; #2-Det holds a Rifle Raffle with all proceeds going to TFT; #3-Det
makes a monetary donation out of their Detachment funds to a local TFT campaign).
NOTE: A Local Area Coordinator, where the MCL Detachment is your sponsor, is NOT required to complete our
internal MCL Detachment AAR unless you want to provide information that would be beneficial to the group.
Toys For Tots & MCL:
Detachment support of Toys For Tots must be coordinated with your Local Area Coordinator or Marine Reserve
Unit Coordinator. That person is the only one who can authorize you to use Toys For Tots trademarked logos and
should be made aware of any Toys For Tots monetary donations, toy collections or events in your area. Checks
should made payable to ‘Toys For Tots’ and given to the Local Area Coordinator for deposit.
Detachments can apply to become an official sponsor and create their own local campaign if you are in an area
that does not have a TFT campaign or if the current TFT campaign covers a large area or multiple counties. Maybe
the current program would support you breaking away and creating a separate campaign in your Detachments
area of responsibility. This needs to be coordinated with the current TFT campaign and the Marine TFT
Foundation. Applications to become a new Local Area Coordinator must be submitted in the Spring. The TFT
Coordinators Conference is held in September.
