Last weekend a group of Walt Disney World Cast Member VoluntEARS came together with other community partners to build a new KaBOOM! playground in Clermont, Florida. The project was part of the ongoing 30th anniversary celebration of the Disney VoluntEARS program.
Planning for the playground started in March at a “Design Day” event where local kids had a chance to meet with KaBOOM!, Nature Explore, and Disney to design the new play space. One unique area in the new playground is an outdoor classroom that is meant to inspire children to …

Disney cast members presented the Orange County’s Pacific Symphony with a check for $5,000. The money was raised during an annual cast-member charity event called Minnie’s Moonlit Madness.
A cast member favorite, Minnie’s Moonlit Madness is a trivia-game-cum-scavenger-hunt in Disneyland where teams of four must complete a list of 10 assignments before midnight. The catch: all teams of four are tied together with rope! This year, 350 teams from all over the Walt Disney Company – including a team from Aulani – participated in the “Soundsational”-themed charity event, raising $5,000 …

On Saturday, July 28, 150 Disney Cruise Line VoluntEARS joined other local volunteers to help build a playground for local kids in Rockledge, FL.
The playground was constructed at Anderson Park and is part of Disney’s $3.5 million contribution to KaBOOM!. Volunteers arrived at the park at before 6:30 a.m., and proceeded to move 135 cubic yards of mulch and mix 280 80-pound bags of concrete in order to construct the new playground.
While Disney provided the majority of funding for the project, the city of Rockledge and the Rockledge Recreation, Open-Space …