After years of supporting children’s causes, Thomson founded Charities for Children in 2004 to provide holiday gifts and other support to poor children through churches, schools, and social service agencies. He donated 28,000 toys last year alone and made donations to such causes as Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and the American Cancer Society. Thomson recently donated 120 bicycles to a church toy drive, but when 275 children showed up, he quickly purchased 155 more bikes then found volunteers to assemble them in two days and deliver them to the children.
