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Painting the place with positivity

In place of a UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital tour, Dance Marathon at FSU and OwlThon FAU took over the Drs. Martin & Sandra Fackler Terrace on Sunday, Jan. 23. Our UF Health Shands Arts in Medicine team set up stations for our Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals Dance Marathon students…

Year in Review: Local Champion Bailey

Blissful. Bubbly. Bright. There are many ways to describe our 2021 CMN Hospitals Local Champion Bailey Abbott and how she represents UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital. Bailey used this year to tell more people about Turner syndrome, a rare chromosome disorder that occurs when a female child is missing an…

Celebrating commitment: College DM programs raise more than $1 million in 78.6 hours

Dance Marathon at UF hosted Transform Today and raised $589,484 for UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital. Photo by Dance Marathon at UF. 94,320 seconds. 1,572 minutes. 26.2 hours. Our three college Dance Marathon programs raised $1,046,778 for UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital during their respective 26.2 hours of fall fundraising.

‘Pumpkin’ to talk about: CMN Hospitals Ambassadors celebrate Halloween

This year our local Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals ambassadors treated us to spook-tacular costumes! Zoinks! Owen and Rojo were ready to solve any Halloween mystery. What Harry Potter house are you? Powie gave us her answer by representing Gryffindor. Reilly also got into the Halloween spirit!…

Thankful for Take 5

Our friends at Take 5 and Driven Brands raised more than $130,000 for CMN Hospitals at UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital. This year’s Take 5 fundraising total was a 64% increase from 2020. Thank you to our Take 5 locations for making a difference for our pediatric patients! Every dollar…

Arts in Medicine holds classes for Ambassador families

This fall, our UF Health Shands Arts In Medicine team offered two 6-week virtual art workshop series for our CMN Ambassador families! These workshops provided Ambassadors and their siblings the opportunity to create artwork alongside other virtual classmates under the direction of UF Health artists-in-residence. CMN Ambassador Evangeline Owens…

Three Dance Marathon programs excel for fall push days

In a year of extraordinary uncertainty, our three collegiate Dance Marathon programs held successful push days for their local Children’s Miracle Network hospital, UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital. For 26.2 hours from Tuesday, Oct. 27 to Wednesday, Oct. 28, both Dance Marathon at the University of Florida and Dance Marathon…

Dance Marathon student leaders earn distinguished awards

Nearly one year ago, students at our Dance Marathon programs were planning another year of incredible fundraising for UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital. No one predicted how drastically those plans would change. Despite unimaginable circumstances, Dance Marathon at UF, Dance Marathon at…