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The Jimmy Fund/Variety Children's Charity Theatre Collections Program
Summer 2010

Jimmy Fund Variety Children's Variety Club Logo

Collecting Hope and Fighting Cancer since 1949

Hit the big screens and help fight cancer with the Jimmy Fund's longest-running fundraiser.

Each summer since The Jimmy Fund/Variety Children's Charity Theatre Collections Program started in 1949, participating movie theaters have shown a Jimmy Fund "trailer" before the start of a feature film. Afterward, volunteers and theatre personnel invite patrons to contribute to the Jimmy Fund by passing around collection canisters.

Jimmy Fund Movie Theatre Collections can

In 2009, movie audience gave nearly more than $750,000 through this longstanding, feel-good community program.

Help us celebrate this more than 60-year tradition by volunteering to collect canister contributions at your participating National Amusements movie theatre.


For more information:

Contact: Kimberly Chisholm
Phone: (617) 632-5091
E-mail: kimberly_chisholm@dfci.harvard.edu

Movie Theatre Collections

Stronger than Ever

Dan Pardi in a screenshot from the Stronger than Ever trailer

Stronger than Ever chronicles the journey of Dan Pardi, a pediatric cancer survivor, as he returns to Dana-Farber 14 years after his treatment. The film builds on an earlier trailer, Strong as Iron, that introduced us to Pardi and the relationship he and other Jimmy Fund Clinic patients had with a special group of iron workers.
Stronger than Ever
Strong as Iron

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Iriving Shapiro

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Michael Rockwood

Movie Theatre Collections is the oldest ongoing Jimmy Fund fundraiser. Michael Rockwood and his daughter Kristen have been volunteering for the program for seven years, passing the canister at local theatres. Read more