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APRIL 2025 EVENT #CHEERS You are cordially invited to join us for our 2025 Wine Tasting Event ~ WINE LIST ~ We’re proud to announce that last year’s Wine Tasting Event held on April 27th raised over $25,000!! All proceeds will be donated to help our state’s children in need. Single Tickets EACH TICKET $100 […]

MARCH 2025 Variety of Florida’s James Bohannon Memorial Endowed Scholarship The University of Central Florida’s College of Health Professions and Sciences hosted their annual Scholarship Champions Luncheon where they donated student Scholarships including our very own Variety of Florida’s $10,000 JAMES BOHANNON MEMORIAL ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP. created by: Kristen Bohannon, daughter Variety of Florida’s President, Marshall

FEBRUARY 2025 One Little Special Racer Takes the Wheel at Daytona 500! A few of the Variety Board Members and team joined together at the Daytona Beach NASCAR Speedway to give away a UCF Go-Baby-Go mobility vehicle to a very lucky young fellow named Cole… A famous legendary Nascar racer, Kyle Perry helped Variety of

FEBRUARY 2025 Variety of Florida’s team members will be at MegaCon Orlando 2025 selling our iconic movie gold heart pins and more!! The event will be held at the Orange County Convention Center. This year Variety will be selling tickets for a chance to win a Deadpool and Wolverine Standup Cutout courtesy of Epic Movie

JANURAY 2025 The Joseph Stilwell Military Academy offers programs that teaches learning strategies for the physically impaired children. Variety has donated a few learning Ipads equipped with the Freeform app which helps the children write notes and take pictures. The app also converts assignments into PDFs for them. Students with fine motor skills find the

DECEMBER 2024 Variety of Florida presents a $10,000 check for more Go-Baby-Go mobility vehicles at Nemour’s Children’s Hospital in Orlando, Florida. Prior to covid, Variety of Florida donated $10,000 to create a Go-Baby-Go program along with UCF’s College of Health Science and Professions (CHIP) school. The program has been a great success! At long last

DECEMBER 2024 SMA’s Beach House Program helps and houses runaway teens. They help the youth between ages 10 – 17 years old with short-term residence who are ungovernable, runaways and/or homeless. The program also buys clothes, daily necessities and provides other support to the teens and youngsters. Richard Goldstein, Fundraiser Director and Marshall Cohn, President

NOVEMBER 2024 Introducing Variety’s new pins from the upcoming movie, Wicked – being released on November 22, 2024 in movie theaters. Variety’s team will be at local Central Florida Epic Movie Theaters selling the new featured pins available in the main characters Galinda Upland being played by the iconic Ariana Grande and Elphaba Thropp being

OCTOBER 2024 Mark your calendars for the DOES cake, pies and cookies auction on Sunday, November 24th from 3pm through 6pm. All items are homemade and all bidders must purchase $10 paddles. ALL PROCEEDS BEING DONATED TO VARIETY OF FLORIDA! AUCTION LOCATION:ELKS LODGE OF WINTER PARK4755 HOWELL BRANCH ROADWINTER PARK, FLORIDA 32792 For any questions

AUGUST 2024 Variety of Florida donated therapeutic sensory toy gift bags to Great Strides Pediatric Rehabilitation Center located in Jacksonville, Florida. The center offers pediatric physical therapy for children helping them achieve developmental milestones, decrease pain, improve movement disorders and help recover from sport injuries. “Thank you again for the sensory bags! The kids are