If members of your plush menagerie are going unloved, send them to
Stuffed Animals for Emergencies, which donates gently used stuffed animals to homeless shelters, hospitals, and emergency aid workers—paramedics often give the soft toys to kids they meet on their calls.
In 1989, when Oprah started a scholarship fund at Morehouse College, the all-male, historically black school in Atlanta, her goal was to help a few young men earn their degree. Little did she know she was setting off a chain reaction of giving that continues today.