Looking for Holiday Gifts that Give Back? New Children's Toys and Books Help Fund Child Medical Grants

Photos: The new Digity’d Do game is one of many children’s gift options available on Amazon with all proceeds going to UnitedHealthcare Children’s Foundation (UHCCF) to help fund children’s medical grants. In addition to games, UHCCF also sells children’s books including a joke book featuring riddles and rhymes from children and the popular Oliver & Hope book series.

In the true spirit of the holidays, there’s no better gift than the one that gives back. Available now, inspirational children’s books, toys, and kid-designed holiday cards from the UnitedHealthcare Children’s Foundation (UHCCF) not only make great gifts, the proceeds from those items will also fund child medical grants for families who need financial assistance.

Holiday gift options include:

• Award-winning Oliver & Hope children’s storybooks, along with plush characters

• Children’s joke books

• Digit’y Do — a new numbers game that combines elements of strategy and probability with a high dose of fun

• Kid-designed holiday cards and 2017 wall calendars

• Grins to Go bags — this nylon draw string backpack is filled to the brim with a dozen toys, games and activities that will inspire and amuse any boy or girl between the ages of 4 and 12.

All products are available at smile.Amazon.com (search for UHCCF) with 100 percent of the proceeds going to fund medical grants for children in Florida and throughout the U.S. to help families cover medical expenses and treatments not covered or not fully covered by their health insurance plan (any health plan). There is no cost to apply and grant applications are currently being accepted at www.uhccf.org.

Since 2007, UHCCF has awarded over 12,000 grants valued at more than $34 million to children and their families in Florida and across the U.S. for treatments associated with medical conditions such as cancer, spina bifida, muscular dystrophy, diabetes, hearing loss, autism, cystic fibrosis, Down syndrome, ADHD and cerebral palsy, to name a few. Bloomingdale-Riverview families in need should go to www.uhccf.org to review criteria and submit an online application.