Disney Florida Donations Strengthen Local Communities
Disney Florida donations continue making a meaningful impact across the state. Walt Disney World is donating $1.5 million to 19 nonprofit organizations creating positive change in Florida. For more than 50 years, Disney has called Florida home, and this latest investment builds on its long legacy of helping local communities thrive.
Supporting Diverse Nonprofits Across Florida
The Disney Florida donations will assist organizations working in education, arts, housing, and conservation. Each nonprofit plays a vital role in improving lives. Here’s a closer look at the grant recipients:
- Bok Tower Gardens: Inspiring a better, more beautiful world.
- Central Florida Community Arts: Creating an artistic family that celebrates natural abilities.
- Children’s Home Society of Florida: Building bridges to success for children.
- Christian Service Center: Preventing homelessness, fighting poverty, and restoring hope.
- Conductive Education Center of Orlando: Transforming lives of people with motor disabilities.
- Conservation Florida: Protecting Florida’s water, wildlife, and wild spaces.
- ELEVATE Orlando: Equipping local youth to thrive.
- Foundation for Foster Children: Building meaningful connections for kids in foster care.
- Habitat for Humanity (Lake & Sumter, Seminole County & Greater Apopka): Building homes and hope.
- Hope Partnership: Providing care to end homelessness and poverty.
- IDignity: Restoring dignity by providing identification.
- Limbitless Solutions at UCF: Empowering confidence through art-infused bionics.
- Orlando Science Center: Inspiring science learning for life.
- Osceola Arts: Promoting participation in the arts.
- Page 15: Empowering children to discover their voices.
- Steinway Society of Central Florida: Nurturing musical talent in disadvantaged youth.
- Volunteers for Community Impact: Ending social isolation.
- Zebra Coalition: Supporting and inspiring LGBTQ+ youth.
Making an Impact Beyond Donations
In addition to these grants, Disney cast members give back through Disney VoluntEARS. This year alone, cast members volunteered more than 115,000 hours across Florida. Their efforts include mentoring youth, supporting food banks, participating in environmental cleanups, and more.
This latest investment will help each organization as they continue making big differences in the lives of many Floridians and their families. It’s also another step forward in our more than 50-year history of helping Florida thrive and builds on other recent efforts in 2023 like. Hosting Disney World’s largest wish-granting event ever. donating $125,000 to support local school districts. Ccreating a new affordable housing development. Expanding our commitment to conservation with $500,000 in environmental grants and more. What an exciting year!
As we look to the future, we will continue to seek out meaningful ways to make significant impacts just like we always have. To read more about ongoing efforts in the state, visit DisneyFlorida.com.
