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For the past seven years, 82 cents of every dollar received has gone to support the treatment, research and future needs of St. Jude. Make a Donation. Since St. Jude is a childhood cancer charity, the majority of funds needed to operate and sustain St. Jude must be raised from generous donors.
- A Fundraising Giant
- “Borrowing and Begging”
- “It’s Not Free”
- Wiped Out Savings
St. Jude began with a fledgling entertainer praying for a career break. When Danny Thomas, a comic and actor best known for the TV sitcom “Make Room for Daddy,” was struggling to earn a living in the late 1930s, the devout Roman Catholic went to church and asked for help from the patron saint of desperate cases, St. Jude Thaddeus. If he made it big...
Catherine Rainey thought she would be free of financial worry when her 2-year-old daughter Harlee was admitted to St. Jude last year. “The first thing my dad said was: ‘Catherine, you have nothing to worry about. They raise billions of dollars. Anytime you have a problem, you tell them and they will take care of it,’” she said. But like many famili...
In addition to charities like Hope’s, St. Jude families have repeatedly turned to fundraising sites and networks of their relatives, friends and neighbors to help cover basic expenses while unable to work during their children’s treatment. Parents’ requests on fundraising sites are sometimes desperate pleas. In January 2017, one father in North Car...
The costs associated with care at St. Jude caused at least one family to stop going to Memphis altogether. Last winter, Kelly Edwards was excitedly searching through Tulsa real estate listings after years of diligently saving $10,000 for a down payment on a house. She craved a permanent home for herself and the two young brothers she had taken in f...
Dec 1, 2021 · It currently has $5.2 billion in reserves, a sum large enough to run the institution at current levels for the next four and a half years without a single additional donation. Reporters David...
Jun 8, 2022 · In July 2021, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital announced to fanfare that it had just finished raising $2 billion in donations, a single-fiscal-year record for the nation’s largest health...
It currently costs more than $2 billion to run St. Jude each year, and the cost is estimated to grow to $2.2 billion by 2027. Your donation will help ensure that families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food — so they can focus on helping their child live.
But any amount donated to St. Jude helps. Your donation can help provide families with a sense of hope during a difficult time, all while helping St. Jude continue to lead the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Donate $25 a Month.
Jul 14, 2022 · St. Jude Hits Donation Milestone to Fight Childhood Cancer Domino's pledges $100 million to St. Jude, largest gift in hospital's history St. Jude gets historic $50M gift from AbbVie for patient, family space funding
