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Happy Hope Bags® deliver a boost of hope to children in your community that need it most.

The CarMax Foundation partners with Happy Hope Foundation® to offer Happy Hope Bags® as a kitpacking Volunteer Team Builder opportunity that can take place at CarMax or offsite. Happy Hope Bags bring joy to children enduring hospitalization, treatments, or other difficult situations. Each kit is thoughtfully customized to bring hope when it’s needed most. All materials ship directly to the CarMax Cares Team Captain, ready for your team to begin.

Locations interested in participating should complete the form below after submitting a Volunteer Team Builder application in the Associate Giving Portal.

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VOLUNTEER TEAM BUILDER APPLICATION

  • Secure LGM approval for the event
  • Complete a Volunteer Team-Builder application through The CarMax Foundation Associate Giving Portal before placing your order
  • Ensure you have at least 5 volunteers
  • Ensure volunteer events take place in non-customer facing areas
  • Associates should not engage in volunteer events while clocked in
  • VTB events typically results in a VTB grant and therefore are not eligible for Matching Hours support

Each Happy Hope Box provides 10-12 hours of total volunteer engagement. To align volunteer participation with kit orders, Happy Hope will ship 1 box for teams of 5-24 volunteers and a max of 2 boxes for teams with 25+ volunteers per event. Happy Hope incurs material and shipping costs for every box, so it’s important to order the correct number of kits. This helps ensure those expenses can be covered through the CarMax Foundation grant process and allows the partnership to continue supporting future events.

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CarMax 2026 Kits & Order Form

All Carmax locations may order 1 Happy Hope Box per fiscal year.

Great Outdoors
20 kits/box

Safari Toothbrush Kit
100 kits/box

Hero placemat Kit
30 kits/box

Hope Counts Outpatient Kit
50 kits/box

Signature Safari
20 kits/box

Carmax Website Video 2026
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