Saving children from Asia and across the globe
Generosity changes everything. Supporting St. Jude means funding lifesaving treatment and critical research impacting children, including those of Asian, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander descent in communities around the world.
St. Jude patient Misheel has a talent for balloon art and likes to share her creations with others.
From our founding by unique visionary Danny Thomas in 1962, to our latest breakthroughs in science and medicine today, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has consistently proven one simple fact:
Generosity changes everything — unlike other hospitals, the majority of funding for St. Jude comes from generous donors.
When St. Jude opened in 1962, childhood cancer was largely considered incurable. Since then, St. Jude has helped push the overall survival rate in the U.S. from 20% to more than 80%, and we won't stop until no child dies from cancer.
St. Jude is leading research to improve chemotherapy safety and effectiveness for pediatric patients of East Asian descent affected by acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most common form of childhood cancer.
St. Jude is leading a global initiative to end childhood cancer, establishing regional programs and partnerships in more than 15 countries in the Asia-Pacific region, including the Philippines, Myanmar, China, Mongolia and Russia.
Treatments developed at St. Jude have helped raise the survival rate for children with cancer in the United States, where 4 out of 5 children survive cancer. In many countries, however, 1 out of 5 children who develop cancer will survive. The mission of St. Jude Global is to improve the survival rates of children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases worldwide through the sharing of knowledge, technology and organizational skills. Learn more about the St. Jude Global initiative >
Explore the impact of your donations
St. Jude is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Read about our progress and our care and treatment for kids, all thanks to the generosity of our donors.
St. Jude campus in Memphis, Tennessee
St. Jude Strategic Plan
St. Jude is in the midst of a six-year, historic $12.9 billion strategic plan. This bold commitment outlines a plan to accelerate progress in the laboratory, in the clinic and around the globe. Read the details of the plan>
St. Jude patient Hayden paints a picture.
St. Jude school program
St. Jude Imagine Academy by Chili’s, our onsite school, is one of our numerous services for patients and families. It allows patients to keep up with their elementary through high school curriculum back home. Learn more about the school >
St. Jude survivor Emily
Survivorship
St. Jude continues to research survivorship to learn and share insights to improve care for all patients. A survivorship portal and its ability to facilitate breakthroughs in pediatric cancer survivorship. The portal is free to use and open access as a part of the St. Jude Cloud ecosystem. Read more about the portal >
Pediatric cancer genome project
St. Jude was the first children’s hospital to make a major investment in pediatric cancer genome sequencing. The St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital–Washington University Pediatric Cancer Genome Project has resulted in groundbreaking discoveries in several childhood cancers. Learn about the collaboration >
Maelin-Kate was referred to St. Jude after a diagosis of Fanconi anemia, an inherited blood disorder that prevents bone marrow from making enough blood cells, leading to bone marrow failure and, in some instances, leukemia.
Fanconi anemia carries a high risk of developing cancer, so St. Jude doctors monitor Maelin-Kate closely.
St. Jude patient Maelin-Kate with her mom;
Art by Maelin-Kate
We joke that she has glitter in her veins because she’s just the happiest, most loving, most excitable human on the planet.
St. Jude patient Maelin-Kate's mother
Entertainer Danny Thomas' legacy is founding St. Jude on the principle of equity in health care for children with cancer and life-threatening diseases. When it opened in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1962, St. Jude became the first fully integrated children's hospital in the South.
For more than 60 years, St. Jude has cared for some of the world’s sickest children regardless of their race ethnicity, beliefs or ability to pay — all thanks to generous donors like you.
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Why support St. Jude?
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There are great research institutions, great hospitals and great charities — we’re all three. See how we’re funded, how our operating model works and our plans for the future.
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Our stories
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St. Jude Inspire
St. Jude Inspire tells the stories of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to inspire trust, hope and faith in the mission that drives us: Finding cures. Saving children.®