Appleton Creative was proud to host a special charity youth event today in partnership with Great Oaks Village Foster Care Group Home. Appleton Creative’s team is on a mission to get kids actively involved in creativity early in life in order to express themselves through art. Appleton’s goal is to build a future generation of young creatives while helping kids in need.

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At Appleton, the recent holiday season got us thinking about the less fortunate. In addition to our year-long charity campaigns and our Giving Circle Gallery, we contributed a little extra to our favorite charities: The Coalition for the Homeless, Orlando Rescue Mission and Great Oaks Foster Home. But the end of 2011 found Appleton reaching [...]

Appleton Creative helped support the Coalition for the Homeless fundraiser hosted by UCF Town & Gown Council at the home of Dr. & Mrs. Hitt. The event raised over $3,000 for the homeless! Brent Trotter, President/CEO spoke about the great rise in homelessness in Orlando. There are some elementary schools that report 20% of their [...]

Appleton Creative is starting a new Facebook campaign for the month of December. For every new “Like” on our page, we will donate $1 to Pet Rescue by Judy. Send this link to your friends, and for more information on how to help visit: http://www.petrescuebyjudy.com/

Recently, we hosted our latest art exhibit featuring art from the residents at Pasadena Villa. One of our favorite clients to work with, Pasadena Villa provides mental health residential, transitional and support services for adults with cognitive, emotional and social disorders. The network of services offers participation in real life activities to residents in order [...]

Click below to view a clip from yesterday’s State of Downtown address, where Mayor Dyer announced the winner of the “Why I Love Orlando” contest to find affordable ways to improve our downtown community. Head Appletonian Diana LaRue was on the winning team!

Appleton Creative has teamed up with City Hall to produce a Giving Circle art piece to share just how much Orlando has given to our community. Mayor Buddy Dyer’s office is showing the love as well with a video soon to be revealed. Check out this fun, record-setting video from Grand Rapids, MI to get [...]

The wait is over! Check out our photos from last week’s Giving Circle Gallery awareness art exhibit for Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.