Walt Disney World is creating positive change in the state of Florida by giving donations totaling $1.5 million dollars to 19 nonprofit organizations throughout Florida.
From establishing vital education and workforce development programs to supporting the arts, and combatting homelessness and hunger, Disney Grant recipients are doing outstanding work within the community.
Here are some of the benefactors of Disney’s generosity:
- 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 has been actively supporting various initiatives, both as a company and through the participation of its Cast Members. These initiatives involve volunteering with organizations across Florida through the Disney VoluntEARS program. In 2023, Cast Members have generously dedicated over 115,000 hours to these causes.
The recent financial injection into these organizations will undoubtedly contribute significantly to their ongoing efforts to improve the lives of numerous Florida residents and their families. Disney’s commitment to the state spans over half a century, and its dedication continues to grow. In 2023 alone, Disney has undertaken several impactful endeavors, including hosting its largest wish-granting event at Disney World, providing $125,000 in support to local school districts, initiating an affordable housing development, and expanding its environmental conservation efforts with $500,000 in grants. It’s been a year filled with exciting developments!
Glad that Disney makes it a top priority to give back to Floridians and their families?