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 Sponsors
Inspire Sponsors
Hazelwood/Previtera Family
Feely Family Foundation
Event Co-Chairs
Kristen and Bill Perusek • Gennie and Mike Swenson
Honorary Chairs
Tom and Holly Malouf
Charbel Barakat • Michelle Concklin • Chase Corley • Christina Feely • Nicole Gee • Alison Haywood • Kseniya Korneva • Marty and Sherry Koscso • Julie Lawrence • Debbie Lazzara • Adrienne Fleming Lugo • Kim Malouf • Lexi Malouf • Katie Martinez • Tracy Monsour • Yoly Pierson • Cole Rix • Richard and Jule Salem • Kayla Segraves • Tye Swenson • Michelle Wasielewski • Valerie and Joey Younes
Highlights from Around the World with St. Jude over the years
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... could help provide chemotherapy IV tubing sets*
A $100 donation could provide five chemotherapy IV tubing sets sized especially to help children receive treatment.*
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... could help provide one day of oxygen for a St. Jude patient*
St. Jude patients may need oxygen to help their bodies function properly and aid in healing.
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... could help provide four walkers for St. Jude patients*
Walkers provide St. Jude patients with stability and support, making it easier for them to walk after surgery.
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... could help cover about two-thirds of the cost of one day of chemotherapy*
Treatments developed at St. Jude have helped push overall survival rates for childhood cancers from 20 percent when the hospital opened in 1962 to more than 80 percent today.
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... could help cover the cost of the 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 of our mission
Any amount supports kids around the world. St. Jude shares the breakthroughs it makes, and every child saved at St. Jude means doctors and scientists worldwide can use that knowledge to save even more 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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