Variety The Children’s Charity

Illumination and Universal Pictures have collaborated with Variety – the Children’s Charity to create a limited-edition gold heart pin featuring new characters from Illumination’s rambunctious, all-new animated action comedy, Minions & Monsters, which arrives in theaters July 1, 2026. The...

Variety – the Children’s Charity has partnered with Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures to create a limited-edition gold heart pin with the highly anticipated Avatar: Fire and Ash, in theatres nationwide on December 19, 2025.   This collector’s pin is available...

Variety – The Children’s Charity of Southern California has announced Wanda Gierhart Fearing as the honoree for this year’s annual Heart of Show Business Luncheon. The event will take place on December 12th at the Skirball Cultural Center celebrating Wanda’s...

Variety – the Children’s Charity has partnered with Universal Pictures to create two limited-edition gold heart pins featuring characters Glinda and Elphaba from Universal holiday tentpole Wicked, in theater nationwide on November 22, 2024. The limited-edition collector’s pins are exclusively...

Featuring artwork from TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MUTANT MAYHEM exclusively on sale in participating theatres. Proceeds from gold heart pins help fund life-changing Variety programs for children globally.

Variety – the Children’s Charity of the Desert has announced its designation as a Certified Autism Center (CAC), which is granted by the International Board of Credentialing and Continuing Education Standards (IBCCES). With staff members trained in sensory awareness, Variety...

The National Capital Region and Southern California chapters of Variety–the Children’s Charity (Variety) are honoring John Fithian with a lifetime achievement award for his commitment to Variety and for promoting the movie theater industry’s support of children with disabilities. Fithian...

Variety – the Children’s Charity of the United States has unveiled their 2023 installment of their annual gold heart pin campaign: Avatar: The Way of Water. The limited edition pins will be available for a minimum donation of $3 at participating...

PRESS RELEASE — Malco Theatres and Variety – the Children’s Charity of the United States presented a customized adaptive tricycle to 19-year-old Cordova, Tennessee resident Sarah Summers, who lives with autism, central nervous system dysfunction, and scoliosis. Assembly of the...

In 1991, Variety International board member Marsha Rae Ratcliff had an idea for expanding the work Variety – the Children’s Charity had been doing since its founding in 1927. Simple and elegant, Ratcliff’s idea was to sell heart-shaped gold pins...

Elizabeth O’Neil, the executive director of Variety, The Children’s Charity of Southern California, will receive this year’s Al Shapiro Distinguished Service Award at ShowEast, it was announced today. O’Neil will be presented with the award as part of the Final...

Universal and DreamWorks Animation have partnered with Variety – the Children’s Charity to create limited-edition gold heart pins featuring characters from the studios’ forthcoming The Boss Baby: Family Business, which is slated for release on July 2, 2021. Proceeds from...