Serious
Science.
Still a kid.
Kids Beating Cancer funds support, access, and research, and The Villages is behind every part of it.
The Village’s Miracles and Mardi Gras Registration is NOW Open. Save Your Seat!
It Takes a Village
This Village turns a community into a care team: supporting kids and their families through every part of the fight, bringing treatment closer to home, and funding the research that gets them there.
$ 500 k+
Raised By The Villages Since 2024
Our village shows up in force. Every visit brings laughter, comfort, connection.
Home comforts follow her to treatment. Family stays close through every step.
Her smile powers this fight forward. Research and care make moments possible.
Mardi Gras for the Kids
One night, one mission: funding childhood, support, access, and research for kids fighting cancer.
Last year, this room raised $350,000 in its first year alone.
February 23, 2027 | 5PM
Brownwood Hotel & Spa
Presented by Parity Financial
Sponsors
Our Impact
Kids Beating Cancer Supports Kids and Families
Complex diagnosis.
Simple joy.
Support
A Bunky Snuggle Box on a hard hospital day. A decorated room instead of a sterile one. A bear that stays when a parent can’t. Support is every part of the fight that has nothing to do with a chart.
Access to trials.
Room to still be a kid.
Access
Treatment shouldn’t require leaving Central Florida. Kids Beating Cancer brings care directly into communities, so families don’t have to travel for the treatment their child needs.
Funding the match.
Protecting the childhood.
Research
Every research dollar goes to a named, multi-year grant at a named institution, not a general fund. That’s science working toward a cure, one specific child’s diagnosis at a time.
17 k+
Children Supported by Kids Beating Cancer Since 1992
Give Where You Live
Your gift counts toward what this community has raised, and still reaches kids fighting cancer here at home.
Give MONTHLY ONCE YOUR WAY
WAYS TO BE PART OF THIS VILLAGE
Become an Ambassador
Whether you want to volunteer or do more, an ambassador is someone with a personal connection to this cause and the tools to turn it into support, for one child or for thousands.
Beyond just volunteering.
Reach Out,
Neighbor to
Neighbor
Steering Committee Members Leslie Skillman – Chair
Cindy Munda – Vice-Chair
Dana DiCioccio
Kim Fanelli
Karla Millsap
Committee Members
Lisa Beller, Elaine Bondie, Sue Boyer, Christy Chamberlain, Geri Faynor, Alicia Langrell, Lori Mace, Gogo Miller, Sharon Parsley, Vicki Pohlman, Tricia Simmons
One Snuggle Box.
Packed by hand.
Hospital beds.
Still bedtime stories.
Support
A stuffed animal on a hospital bed. Support means every part of the fight that isn’t about the diagnosis, protecting the childhood underneath it, so a kid gets to still feel like a kid, even mid-treatment.
This is what
showing up looks like.
Community
Since 2024.
Raised right here.
Impact
$ 500 k+
One room.
Reaching hundreds.
Ambassadors turn personal connections into real funding for kids fighting cancer, no fundraising experience required.
A Village That Keeps Showing Up
A look at what this chapter has already done, together.
Partners Behind the Progress
These businesses and individuals show up for kids fighting cancer, year after year. Your business could be next.
