Variety, the Children's Charity of Colorado Information

The mission of Variety, the Children's Charity of Colorado is to provide life-saving and life-enriching assistance to Colorado children challenged by physical and intellectual disabilities, poverty, abuse and neglect. Variety helps children with mobility challenges, providing the adaptive equipment they require to leave the sidelines and participate in their worlds. Through our program Miracles in Motion, we deliver durable medical equipment such as adaptive bicycles, wheelchairs, gait trainers and speech assistive devices to children whose mobility and community access would otherwise be severely limited. Students in low-income elementary schools earn the opportunity to receive new bikes. Deserving students are nominated by teachers, and learn philanthropy and leadership by creating a community-wide fundraiser to “pay it forward” for the next school’s recipients. Variety Future Kids programs also host special events, including an annual Holiday Party for 500 at-risk kids. When children are able to overcome physical or socio-economic barriers, they invest in themselves, their peers and their communities. They break a pattern of disengagement and empower themselves to try other new and rewarding activities. Our programs offer children ways to experience such challenges and successes, whether it is gaining muscle strength and coordination, or riding safely to school on a their first new bike.