Author name: Ely Flores

2021 BOSS BABY GOLD HEART PIN

Exciting news! Universal Pictures & DreamWorks Animation have collaborated with Variety – the Children’s Charity to create limited-edition gold heart pins featuring characters from DreamWorks Animation’s highly anticipated new film, The Boss Baby: Family Business, which arrived to theaters on July 2, 2021. Proceeds from the pins benefit Variety programs that provide life-changing equipment, services

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VARIETY GRANTS SPECIALIZED VISION GLASSES TO AUTISTIC BROTHERS

Variety of Florida grants $1,000 to help two teenage autistic brothers with down syndrome get specialized vision glasses. Determined and motivated – Mrs. Gretchen Stewart, mother of Ari and Ian contacted Variety of Florida through email asking us to help her with funding for specialized glasses that were very much needed for her two teenage

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MOBILITY BIKE DONATED TO ST JOSEPH’S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN IN MEMORY OF TRACI NOGE

IN LOVING MEMORY OF TRACI NOGE Our fellow Variety board member Frank Noge’s wife Traci Noge (former Variety of Florida board member) passed away a few years ago and to honor his late wife’s memory Frank donated three specialized therapy bicycles to help children with mobility disabilities. One therapy bicycle was granted to St. Joseph’s

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DONATED $90,000 TO RENOVATE THE HOWARD PHILLIPS CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES

Variety of Florida has a history of giving funds to developmental centers like the Howard Phillips Center to help children with disabilities, developmental delays and mobile impairments.  We awarded the Developmental Center at the HPC $90,000 dollars to redesign and renovate the center to make it more sensory friendly and better meet the needs of

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FIRST RESPONDERS MOVIE APPRECIATION DAY AT EPIC THEATRES

The Variety of Florida team recently hosted their First Responders Appreciation Day event at various Epic Theatre locations! The event was held at the Deltona, Mt. Dora and Lee Vista-Orlando Epic Theatres and additional movie dates will soon follow… Families were each treated to a MUCH-DESERVED movie-day with free tickets to watch the new movie,

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