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We’re Looking For Our Next Executive Director (Hybrid)

Variety – the Children’s Charity International Office, is looking for an Executive Director (ED), with experience working with an international organization, to join the Variety team. Across the globe, Variety – the Children’s Charity International offices fund and deliver life changing programs that give children a better future. The Variety International office holds and protects

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Announcing the TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MUTANT MAYHEM Gold Heart Pin

Variety – the Children’s Charity has created four limited-edition gold heart pins featuring artwork from the highly anticipated film TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MUTANT MAYHEM, in U.S. theatres on August 2, 2023. The limited-edition collector’s pins are available for a minimum donation of $3.00 in movie theatres throughout the U.S. These pins will also be

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Variety BC’s Variety Week 2022

Please help Variety – the children’s charity of British Columbia reach their goal of helping 800 more Kids!  Variety Week is a week long event on Global BC’s newscasts from Oct 17 to 21 when all week long, you’ll get to meet some of the amazing kids whose lives you’ve impacted since our Variety Show of Hearts

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Variety Pittsburgh’s MY VOICE on CBS

Variety Pissburgh reached another milestone last week with a CBS National News story that shined a spotlight on Variety’s My Voice® Program!  Please watch, share, and be inspired by this story broken into three parts: Part 1 – The Journey to My Voice Featuring Tyler: https://www.cbsnews.com/live/video/20220804184922-charity-gives-kids-a-voice-through-technology/#x Part 2 – My Voice Interview with KDKA’s Kristine Sorensen:https://www.cbsnews.com/live/video/20220804185255-expanding-the-my-voice-program-across-u-s/ Part 3 – Interview with Sue, whose son, JJ received

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Announcing the new Minions gold heart pin

Illumination and Universal Pictures have collaborated with Variety – the Children’s Charity to create limited-edition gold heart pins featuring a new character from Illumination’s action-packed new animated film, Minions: The Rise of Gru, which arrives in theaters July 1, 2022. The collector’s item pin featuring the unforgettable new Minion, Otto, who sports braces and is

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Variety, the Children’s Charity of Buffalo & WNY Announces $906,060 raised during The 60th Annual Variety Kids Telethon!

Lancaster, NY (www.varietybuffalo.org) Thank you Buffalo, and all of Western New York, for your support of the 60th Annual Variety Kids Telethon, raising $906,060 for the Variety Club of Buffalo Tent #7! These funds directly support Oishei Children’s Hospital, and other Children’s charities. The 60th annual telethon event aired Saturday, March 5, 2022 on WGRZ-TV

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$53K Raised for Variety Kids!

New Year, New Ways of Showing Heart. The last two years have had an enormous impact on the non-profit sector. Charities are still recovering from COVID-related losses, yet are faced with higher demand from families. This means that charities must search for innovative ways to raise those much-needed funds. For Variety, we implemented a brand

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Bringing the love to your screen this February! 

Introducing ‘ShowHeart’ Variety’s first-ever Virtual Charity Concert/Streamathon featuring up to 50+ musicians/bands from across the world. The concert series will broadcast live on Twitch over a series of five-days celebrating Heart month, February. The concert opens at 6:00am EST Toronto Canada/USA, 11am GMT London UK and 10pm AEDT Sydney/Melbourne AUS on February 13, headlined by Twitch streamer and host, Josh Taerk (Twitch.tv/JoshTaerkMusic). The streamathon

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When the Barista Asked What My Son With Special Needs Has

By Jill Zane I stopped at my usual morning iced coffee place, and as I was paying for my caffeine, the woman behind the counter asked what Caden has. She asked because I was wearing my Team Caden shirt — a shirt I wear with pride as often as possible, a shirt that has raised

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It’s More Than Convenience to Me

By Jill F. Bamber, CTVI, MEd, MOM Let me introduce myself. I’m that lucky mom who gets to use those convenient parking spots right in front; you know, the ones that are often empty and right by the door. But you see, parking there is more than convenience for me. I have a son who

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Increasingly, Parents Push For Inclusive Playgrounds

By AIMEE BLANCHETTE, MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE/MC Originally posted in the Disability Scoop Four-year-old Lucas Dean has to have three things when he goes to the playground: long pants, Mickey Mouse gardening gloves and lots of energy. He needs them to crawl through the rough wood chips to reach the slides, stairs and swings. Lucas, who

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There’s just something about that flight.

Once again I sat on a Chicago-bound airplane, about 30,000 feet above the earth, when the tears started flowing. It’s nothing new. I have been crying on that hour-long flight from Kansas City to Chicago for years. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if the airlines put me on some sort of ‘emotional wreck’ watch

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Homework Help for Kids with Special Needs

By: Terri Mauro It’s normal for a child to hate doing homework, but for children with special learning, motor or developmental needs, that hatred can blow up into tantrums, meltdowns, and endless nag-a-thons. It doesn’t have to be that way. There are ways to make the homework experience less painful for all involved. You may

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