This February, the ESA Hearts St. Jude campaign encourages Epsilon Sigma Alpha collegiate chapters across the country to join together to support the lifesaving work of St. Jude.

No family pays St. Jude for anything, and your support will help provide hope to children around the world who are battling cancer and other deadly diseases. 

It costs $1.8 million a day to run St. Jude so support from friends like you is vitally important. Since partnering with St. Jude in 1972, ESA members have raised more than $164 million in cash and pledges and volunteered thousands of hours for St. Jude projects.

 

How can your ESA chapter participate?

1. Register now. With your fundraising page, you can send emails to friends and family, asking them to support St. Jude
2. Use your Facebook and Twitter statuses to help spread the word about St. Jude and your chapter's support.
3. Host an event in your local community such as a Valentine’s dinner or dance, a pancake breakfast or a candy sale.

You can earn great prizes

• Raise $35 and receive a specially designed ESA Hearts St. Jude T-shirt.
• Raise $100 and receive a coupon for $20 at the online St. Jude Gift Shop.
• Raise $250 or more to be entered for a chance to win an iPad.

In addition to individual prizes, each participating chapter will have the chance to win a personalized chapter banner to use for future St. Jude fundraising events. Chapters will be categorized by size and one personalized chapter banner will be available for each category.

Be part of the proud legacy of ESA as it celebrates its 41-year tradition of supporting St. Jude.

 

You'll help St. Jude patients like Corban

When 9-month-old Corban was found to suffer from rhabdomyosarcoma, an aggressive soft tissue tumor, his parents, Jessi and Brett, turned to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital for his treatment and care.

Corban’s family is grateful for everything St. Jude has provided for him. At St. Jude, no family ever pays for treatment. “I can’t imagine what the cost of Corban’s care has been,” Jessi said. “Aside from treatment, he’s had physical and speech therapies, visits with Child Life specialists and a nutritionist. And we don’t have to worry about any of it.”

Corban will soon celebrate his second birthday at St. Jude. Although Jessi and Brett miss family back home, they know they’re surrounded by people who love and care for Corban. For them, St. Jude feels like home. “Corban took his first steps here,” Jessi said. “Now he’s running and climbing and jumping.”