Why make an end-of-year donation to St. Jude?
End-of-year donations help St. Jude provide lifesaving treatment, support groundbreaking research and care for children with cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Because families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food, donor support is essential to making this mission possible.
Ways your year-end donation can help the kids at St. Jude
1. Keeping families together
When you donate to St. Jude, you’re doing more than providing the best pediatric cancer care — you’re giving families the chance to have more time with their children. Siblings have more chances to play together, parents can hold their children longer and kids can continue to make more magical memories.
St. Jude patient Miguel with his mom
St. Jude patient Valentina plays with an airplane as he mom looks on
2. Providing transportation to get treatment
St. Jude treats children from all over 50 states and around the world. But families never have to worry about how they will afford the trip. St. Jude covers travel costs for patients traveling to our campus in Memphis, Tenn., for treatments and checkups.
3. Covering the costs of lifesaving care
Treatments for pediatric cancer can last three years or more and can cost up to $1 million. Your donation helps kids get the best medical treatment without their parents worrying about ever receiving a bill from St. Jude. Learn more about our unique operating model.
St. Jude patient Hunter
The Domino's Village short-term stay facility on the St. Jude Campus
4. Providing housing for patient families
St. Jude offers short-term and long-term lodging for patients and families in treatment. Each facility offers a comfortable and soothing space with everything a family needs to feel at home.
5. Funding research to find more cures
Donations to St. Jude are used to fund research and treatment for pediatric cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Treatments developed at St. Jude have helped push the overall survival rate for childhood cancer from 20% when the hospital opened in 1962 to more than 80% today. And we won’t stop until no child dies from cancer.
St. Jude faculty member Teresa Santiago, MD
Entrance to the Kay Cafe, where families and staff dine.
6. Providing food and groceries for patient families
Your donation provides St. Jude families with a daily food credit for use in our cafeteria and a stipend for food purchased outside our cafeteria to ensure good nutrition during the child’s treatment.
7. Doing good for the world
When we do good, we feel good. But donating to St. Jude is more than a good feeling. Your generosity this holiday season gives children and their parents hope for a brighter future without childhood cancer.
Artwork by St. Jude patient Victoria
Give back this holiday season
At St. Jude, your end-of-year gift is the miracle a St. Jude family has been anxiously waiting for. Join our St. Jude family today, and be part of our mission to save more lives.
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