Founding St. Jude Give To Live Society members made a lasting impact on the lives of St. Jude kids and their families in 2021.

As a committed donor, your giving helps ensure that St. Jude is here for families in need.
By joining the St. Jude Give To Live Society, you will receive exclusive incentives at each benefit level as a token of appreciation, as the true reward comes from knowing that donors like you are furthering the St. Jude mission and helping save children everywhere.
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Your giving could cover the cost of five days of oxygen for a St. Jude patient.
During treatment, St. Jude patients may need oxygen to help their bodies function properly and aid in healing.
With a cumulative gift of $2,500 or more, your gift can help ensure families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food.
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Your giving could support the cost of the daily room rate of the ICU.
The Intensive Care Unit at St. Jude has been recognized twice 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.
With a cumulative gift of $5,000 or more, your philanthropy will be in service to help saves the lives of St. Jude kids.
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Your giving could help provide one CT scan for a St. Jude patient
Doctors use CT scans to see inside the body. The scan gives them more information than a regular X-ray. A CT scan provides parents with much needed answers about their child's health.
With a cumulative gift of $10,000 or more, you can help make the investments that save St. Jude kids.
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Your giving could help run the St. Jude Blood Donor Center for one week.
The Blood Donor Center, located on the first floor of the Patient Care Center, is responsible for collecting and providing the hospital with platelets and other blood products necessary for our patient’s care.
With a cumulative gift of $15,000 or more, you can help sustain the St. Jude mission through generous giving.
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Your giving could help cover the cost of a major surgical procedure.
St. Jude helped revolutionize pediatric cancer treatment around the world with its groundbreaking use of a combination of chemotherapy, radiation and surgery to treat childhood cancers.
With a cumulative gift of $25,000 or more, you can help save future generations of St. Jude kids.
When you make a donation using this information, 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.
Where your generosity can save generations
St. Jude was founded in 1962 with the mission to treat children regardless of race, color, creed or their family's ability to pay. A facility where research would shine light into the darkness.
1966
A group of St. Jude patients are the first acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) patients to ever be successfully taken off therapy, based on evidence that remission can be sustained.
1977
The hospital launches the first major effort to understand the lifelong progression of sickle cell disease.
1984
St. Jude opens the After Completion of Therapy Clinic, the world's largest long-term follow-up clinic for pediatric cancer patients.
1996
Peter Doherty, PhD, St. Jude Immunology chair, is awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
2006
St. Jude reports a 94% survival rate for patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), using therapy that does not include radiation.
2019
St. Jude announces a cure for SCID-X1, commonly known as bubble boy disease. By combining gene therapy and low-dose chemotherapy with busulfan, immune function is restored in infants with the disorder.
To become a member of the St. Jude Give To Live Society, call (800) 214-0654.
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St. Jude patient Lydia, who was diagnosed with medullablastoma.
Because you give, they have a chance to live
Your commitment provides a unique opportunity to further Danny Thomas' dream and shape the future of St. Jude for years to come. The St. Jude Give to Live Society was made for people like you — exceptionally generous to the St. Jude mission.
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