Kindness x 2: Free lawn service and toilet paper!

Rodney Smith Jr. is the founder of the non-profit group Raising Men Lawn Care Service, providing free mowing, leaf-raking and other services for the elderly, the disabled, single parents and veterans. With the COVID-19 pandemic raging, Smith has expanded his service.

NBA dishes meals and more to those in need

Basketball is what they’re best known for, of course, but sidelined in these days of the COVID-19 virus, the NBA's players and teams are still making winning moves to help those in need.

I want our front line medical works to know they're heroes

Jessica had been a nurse for 15 years when her daughter, Zoe, was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Today, the St. Jude mom is a director of compassionate care for a large health management organization. She shares how life has changed in the era of COVID-19 and why staying home is the best thing we can do for our front line medical workers.

A baseball heart-to-heart

Two baseball players had a video chat over the internet. One was Randy Dobnak, a pitcher for the Minnesota Twins. The second was Brody, a 12-year-old patient at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Keeping a focus on childhood cancer

For all the worry and hardship COVID-19 brings, and it’s impossible to underestimate its impact, we can’t lose sight of a somber fact: cancer remains the leading cause of death by disease of children in the U.S.

Quincy's Song

St. Jude patient Quincy collaborates with award-winning singer-songwriter Pastor Donnie McClurkin on an original song for the annual St. Jude Celebration of Hope Songwriter's Dinner.

Stay home and stay safe. That’s what worked for our family.

As the parent of a child with cancer, Kacie shares her reality of raising a daughter with a compromised immune system, and what the novel coronavirus has meant for her family.

Inspired Questions: MAJOR.

Mega-positive recording artist MAJOR. spills the tea on his upcoming wedding and talks about giving back to his village.

Rev. Melvin Smith: 'Another Side of Humanity'

As the segregationist laws of the 1950s and ‘60s kept African Americans from advancing socially and professionally, St. Jude offered a safe environment where equality was the order of the day.

Practicing radical compassion in the time of social distancing

March 27, 2020

At our best as humans, we look out for each other, especially the most vulnerable among us. We do a stranger a kind turn. We lead with our hearts. It’s how we’ll get through this coronavirus crisis — with the uplift of untold acts of human generosity, large and small.

Teachers rise to this teachable moment

March 27, 2020

The St. Jude Educator Ambassador Network is made up of six social media influencers with an education focus. The network has donated free downloadable resources so that we can offer them to our educator and parent supporters in this time of need.

A little love, and a lot of soul, from the Mighty Electric St. Jude Band

March 30, 2020

The members of the Mighty Electric St. Jude Band have a mission to inspire, after all. You can keep them apart, but you can’t keep them down. So they got together — remotely, of course — to perform “Give a Little Love,” an upbeat, horn-driven Tom Jones number sure to bring a little joy in these days of the coronavirus.

Look down: there's a message here about who we are

March 27, 2020

People in communities across the nation have lately been looking down for inspiration. At their neighborhood sidewalks. Sidewalk chalk has become a way to express ourselves, with colorful drawings, messages of hope, and even messages of defiance against the new coronavirus.

Alive and Singing

January 18, 2020

Singing with country music superstar Brad Paisley has put St. Jude survivor Addie on a national stage. She’s using it as a platform to help others.