News & Events

JANUARY 2024 Variety of Florida in the past has donated an ECMO unit room used for premature babies to the St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital, located in Tampa, Florida. On behalf of Variety of Florida, the room will be dedicated in honor of the late, James Sirna. Jim, founder of West Palm Wines, a wine store […]

JANUARY 2024 Jessie’s Place provides mental health and advocacy services as well as education to the community to enhance child wellbeing, provide trauma-informed care and protect all children in Citrus County from violence, abuse and neglect… The Variety Foundation has donated a $1,500 grant to Jessie’s Place, a Children’s Advocacy Center located in Lecanto, Florida

DECEMBER 2023 Thanks to the National Airlines members who delivered holiday Christmas Santa Sacks filled with toys that will be donated to our Variety kids and babies. The staff members of National Airlines collected all the toys amongst themselves and kindly delivered them to our Variety of Florida headquarters in Orlando. Some of the toys

DECEMBER 2023 This holiday season families and Children’s Centers in Central Florida like, New Hope for Kids located in Maitland, Florida and Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital located in Hollywood, Florida received giftbags with therapeutic sensory toys from Variety of Florida!! The toys included in each giftbag are a Spaghetti Yo-Yo, a Slinky and Silly Putty

NOVEMBER 2023 Charitable organizations have teamed up with Amazon and we are happy to announce, Variety of Florida is one of them! Amazon can now donate 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to Variety – the Children’s Charity of Florida whenever you shop on AmazonSmile. Please keep our charity in mind whenever

NOVEMBER 2023 Variety’s fundraiser director, Richard Goldstein, and our volunteers will be at selected Epic Theatre locations selling our iconic movie gold-heart pins on and following the movie release dates of The Trolls and The Hunger Games, the Ballad of Songbirds and Snacks. Variety has an inventory for Trolls and Hunger Games gold-heart pins. Both

OCTOBER 2023 The Lakeland Police Athletic League (PAL program) was funded $1,000 by Variety of Florida to take the youth aged kids to visit Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights for Halloween… The PAL program’s mission is to promote positive interaction between the youth in the community and the Lakeland Police Department. It utilizes educational and

OCTOBER 2023 VARIETY – THE CHILDREN’S CHARITY OF FLORIDA PRESENTED A $10,000 CHECK TO THE COLLEGE OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS AND SCIENCES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA. These funds will support thirty-six children with Autism, cover materials such as consumables and storybooks for shared reading, multimedia to develop related content for immersive experiences, parent training,

SEPTEMBER 2023 PIZZA WITH A PURPOSE DAY!! FUNDRAISER SUPPORTING VARIETY THE CHILDREN’S CHARIETY OF FLORIDA ON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2023 (11AM – 10PM) Customers must show flyer below OR include donation code BACK20% when ordering online at check-out.  20% of all sales (Not including Alcohol) will be donated to Variety of Florida.  Please Join Us

AUGUST 2023 Variety of Florida donated $12,000 for a children’s playground (with a matching gift from an anonymous donor) and several sensory toy gift bags to students of the Guadalupe Center in Naples, Florida. The gift bags are filled with sensory and therapeutic toys that will help children with their mobility skills. EMILY SUMPMANN, CFRE