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We’re grateful for: Cade Watson's family, for uniting southwestern Virginia to support St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
A person could drive through Damascus, Virginia, in five minutes, but to know its heart, they’d do well to spend two hours on the Saturday before Valentine’s Day at the St. Jude Sweetheart Banquet.
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We’re grateful for: Friends like Jim, who helped support the families and research of St. Jude
It was during a virtual event with fellow St. Jude supporters in early 2021 that 95-year-old Jim Guth found himself being serenaded with an online rendition of “Happy Birthday.”
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We’re grateful for: Linn Ann, driven by her sister’s memory to help find more cures and save more kids
Linn Ann Huntington’s decades of supporting @StJude began at an early age, after her little sister passed just 34 days before St. Jude opened in 1962.
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We’re grateful for: Arturo Natalino, who continues his family's decades-long tradition of supporting St. Jude
It started decades ago with the news that a young boy in a New Haven neighborhood who played for the local baseball league had been diagnosed with leukemia.
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We’re grateful for: fishing personality Fat Cat Newton, who pours his humor and heart into helping St. Jude
Combining humor with his love of fishing, B. “Fat Cat” Newton has created a social media persona that’s almost literally larger than life. His heart is even bigger.
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We're grateful for: The Velasquez family, who works to improve the health of a city that once saved their son
Pedro Velasquez’s treatment at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital was not easy; oncologists on the Memphis campus would spend two and a half years trying to eradicate the aggressive T-cell variation of acute lymphoblastic leukemia he had.
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We’re grateful for: Lorenzo Sandlin, a bereaved father who led a community crusade for St. Jude
Lorenzo Sandlin arrived at O’Neal Elementary School in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, more than three decades ago with a passion for education and a love of “trying to help children better themselves.”
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We're grateful for: Bianca, a teen who raised money to help kids with cancer after St. Jude Children's Research Hospital treated her brother
Bianca's little brother Beckett was diagnosed with leukemia and treated at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital when he was 9. He was too young to know what that meant, but 13-year-old Bianca did.
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We’re grateful for: Jose Zambrano, who runs in full firefighter gear for St. Jude
Jose Zambrano, a California firefighter, began to run in part to reduce the stress from his life-and-death work.
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We’re grateful for: Tina Marshall, who helps coordinate St. Jude Sunday of Hope campaigns
Tina Marshall is grateful for the example set by parents who went into the community to give back with their eight children in tow. Service was already part of her life when a chance meeting with a grieving father at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital truly connected her to the mission.
About this blog
We went looking for acts of kindness in the time of the coronavirus — and found them everywhere. People looking out for a neighbor or stranger. People putting the most vulnerable among us first. People making human connections, even in this time of social distancing. As St. Jude founder Danny Thomas said: “Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.”
