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This year it brought us so much joy to be able to give away 250 holiday gift bags to some loving children in our community. Our Variety team diligently selected these toys aiming to fulfill the needs of autistic children… Saturday morning, 250 kids woke up to a trip to Dave ‘N Busters in Orlando […]

The Variety team and their young volunteers were at Epic Theatres -Lee Vista raising money for our charity while greeting and meeting all Spider-Man fans for the premier showing of the new movie, Spider-Man: No Way Home. Our Variety gold heart pin stand was setup in the theatre’s lobby and the team had so much

We are stronger when we join forces for good! On Wednesday December 1st, faculty from the AAC Lab at the UCF College of Health Professions and Sciences joined with representatives from Variety of Florida which include Marshall Cohn, President of Variety of Florida along with Bob Winters, Karen Jensen and Richard Goldstein of Variety and

University of Central Florida’s Augmentative and Alternative Communications Lab Receives Gift of Mobile Makerspace to Build Adaptive Toys from Variety of Florida. Click Here to read UCF’s article Marshall S. Cohn, President of Variety of Florida… click below to watch our collab-video…

A special ‘Thank You’ to Variety – the Children’s Charity International for the recognition! Variety of Florida is honored to receive this award while we’re still battling the Covid-19 pandemic. We won’t STOP raising money for the children… WE ARE TENT #70 !! #SupportVarietyKids #VarietyKidsCan

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

Attention ALL COSPLAY FANS !! Variey of Florida’s at Booth #3015 Variety of Florida has been looking forward to joining forces with MegaCon Orlando and has been following their lead on all convention updates. Due to Covid-19, MegaCon Orlando was canceled in 2020 but its new return dates are officially Thursday, August 12th through Sunday,

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

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

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