Disney Gives $1.5 Million in Grants to Florida Nonprofit Organizations
Disney is putting their money where the mouse is and giving donations totaling $1.5 million to 19 nonprofit organizations across the state of Florida.
When revealing the Grant Recipients, Disney turned to its Florida Cast Members. In a video posted on Instagram, various Walt Disney World Cast Members announced the names of the selected organizations. Even the Dapper Dans got in on the act!
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Disney Grant Recipients
In choosing the recipients of the Disney Grant, the company looked at organizations doing unique work within Florida communities. Here is a look at the organizations that Disney chose.
- Bok Tower Gardens: Inspiring a better and more beautiful world.
- Central Florida Community Arts: Creating an artistic family that celebrates our natural abilities.
- Children’s Home Society of Florida: Building bridges to success for children.
- Christian Service Center: Preventing homelessness, combating poverty, cultivating self-sufficiency and restoring hope.
- Conductive Education Center of Orlando: Transforming the lives of children and adults with motor disabilities.
- Conservation Florida: Protecting Florida’s water, wildlife, and wild places.
- ELEVATE Orlando: Equipping local youth to thrive and contribute to their community.
- Foundation for Foster Children: Creating meaningful connections for children in foster care.
- Habitat for Humanity — Lake & Sumter Counties and Seminole County & Greater Apopka: Bringing people together to build homes, communities, and hope.
- Hope Partnership: Providing a holistic continuum of care in order to end homelessness and poverty in Central Florida.
- IDignity: Restoring dignity and hope by providing identification.
- Limbitless Solutions at the University of Central Florida: Empowering confidence and increasing accessibility in the limb difference community through art-infused bionics.
- Orlando Science Center: Inspiring science learning for life.
- Osceola Arts: Promoting, cultivating, and fostering interest and participation in the arts.
- Page 15: Empowering children of all abilities to discover their own voice.
- Steinway Society of Central Florida: Stimulating and nourishing the musical knowledge and artistic talents of disadvantaged youth.
- Volunteers for Community Impact: Ending social isolation.
- Zebra Coalition: Supporting and inspiring LGBTQ+ youth.
Disney’s Work in Florida
The latest investments by Disney are just one example of how Disney gives back. Earlier this year, Walt Disney World held its largest wish-granting event ever, donated $500,000 in environmental grants, and is working on developing new affordable housing units.
To learn more about Disney’s work in Florida’s communities visit DisneyFlorida.com.