The Variety of Southern California is committed to helping children in its communities. Our mission is to provide lifesaving and life-enriching assistance to organizations that serve children with special needs in Southern California. Our primary goal is to provide support wherever the need is the greatest. 

Variety of Southern California focuses on three major areas of funding: 

• Healthcare- Variety’s Healthcare Program supports organizations that provide safety, help, and hope to children who are victims of abuse, neglect, and homelessness. Variety sends kids who are battling life-threatening illnesses to summer camp and provides medical care, therapy, and early intervention programs for kids with disabilities.

• Education- Variety supports organizations that provide underprivileged children and at-risk youth the tools necessary to pursue their education and dreams, and to overcome the barriers of poverty, poor performing schools, and high levels of unemployment.

• Mobility- No child should miss out on the simple pleasures of childhood because his or her family cannot afford the necessary equipment. Variety’s Mobility Program steps in where insurance and other funding step out. Adaptive bikes, walkers, and strollers all provide children with the freedom, confidence, and exercise they need to get out into the California sunshine and have fun with their families and community.

Within each of these three areas, Variety works hard to make sure that we get the greatest benefit possible from every dollar we receive.