Tiffany Greene, Building Community
 

Thanks to Disney's Helping Kids Shine grant, 44 nonprofit organizations have the ammunition to strengthen their programs, and the people they serve.

The grant is giving $700,000 to groups serving a five-county area, continually encouraging the arts and education. 

The awards were recently handed out, and recipients, including Sister Ann Kendrick, said it would help keep their programs running.

"We just got two women full scholarships to Trinity University in Washington, D.C. -- immigrant young people who not normally have a chance to do that," Sister Kendrick said. "This money will help float our boat in these tough economic times."

"When they make our children stronger, safer and healthier, that all is going to help everybody in Central Florida, including Walt Disney World," said Disney spokesman Eugene Campbell.

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