Join us for the ninth annual Around the World with St. Jude Gala in Tampa, Florida on November 2, 2024. This impactful event will feature cocktails, dinner, a silent and live auction, live entertainment and a personal story from a courageous St. Jude patient.
For more than 60 years, St. Jude has been working to improve global survival rates for children with cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Your continued support ensures families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food — so they can focus on helping their child live.
Date and Time
November 2, 2024
6 p.m.
Attire: Formal
Tickets and Sponsorships
Become a sponsor today! Sponsorship packages include a reserved table, brand recognition and other benefits.
St. Jude has helped push the overall survival rate for childhood cancer from 20% when we first opened our doors to 80% today. We won’t stop until no child dies from cancer.
St. Jude patient Hayden and his parents
Become a sponsor
By partnering with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and sponsoring this event, you will align your company name with the strong, nationally recognized St. Jude mission and brand, and instill pride in your employees, consumers, vendors and company executives.
For more information on becoming a sponsor, please contact:
Carly Ritterband
carly.ritterband@alsac.stjude.org
Our sponsors
Global Mission Sponsor
Legacy Sponsor
Dream Sponsor
Inspire Sponsors
Hazelwood/Previtera Family
Event Co-Chairs
Kristen and Bill Perusek • Gennie and Mike Swenson
Honorary Chairs
Tom and Holly Malouf
Charbel Barakat • Michelle Concklin • Chase Corley • Kayla Freed • Nicole Gee • Christina Grimsley • Alison Haywood • Kaitlyn Kirkpatrick • Kseniya Korneva • Marty and Sherry Koscso • Debbie Lazzara • Adrienne Fleming Lugo • Kim Malouf • Lexi Malouf • Katie Martinez • Tracy Monsour • Yoly Pierson • Cole Rix • Richard and Jule Salem • Tye Swenson • Michelle Wasielewski • Valerie and Joey Younes
Highlights from Around the World with St. Jude over the years
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One red wagon
Wagons are the preferred mode of travel through the halls of the hospital and around campus for our younger patients.
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One red blood cell transfusion
Children undergoing treatment for cancer and other life-threatening diseases often need transfusions.
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One hour of physical therapy
Physical therapy is provided to patients because children with life-threatening diseases like cancer may develop developmental, cognitive or physical impairments as a result of their illnesses and their treatments.
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Parent necessities for 20 patient families
Parents who bring their children to St. Jude often leave home in a hurry and forget to pack day-to-day necessities such as shampoos, razors, deodorant, toothbrushes and lotion. At Tri Delta Place, our short-term housing facility, parents can obtain these essentials free of charge.
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An ultrasound study for a St. Jude patient
An ultrasound study is among the diagnostic imaging tests that doctors use to diagnose and monitor disease and treatment.
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Daily room rate of the ICU
The Intensive Care Unit at St. Jude has twice been recognized with the Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence given by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. In 2009, the St. Jude ICU became Tennessee’s first ICU to win the honor.
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Support St. Jude patients and their families
Your donation will be used to provide breakthrough research, treatment and cures as you join St. Jude in its livesaving mission: Finding cures. Saving children.®
* Your donation will be used to provide breakthrough research, treatment and cures. Items listed here are representative of services and supplies that are part of the treatment and care of children at St. Jude. The cost of each item or service is an approximation, and will vary based on actual costs incurred and individual patient needs. Your donation will be used for the general operating needs of St. Jude, where no family ever receives a bill for treatment, travel, housing or food.
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