St. Jude Opens Its 23rd Thanks and Giving Campaign: More Than 50 Brands Join, and Families Never Receive a Bill
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, has opened its 23rd annual Thanks and Giving holiday campaign, bringing together celebrities, media and more than 50 leading national brands to encourage shoppers across the country to donate in support of children with cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Marlo Thomas, the hospital's national outreach director, is joined by longtime supporters Drew Barrymore, Luis Fonsi, Jon Hamm, Michael Strahan and Sofia Vergara.
One rule defines the hospital: families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food. Participating brands this year include Domino's, KAY, HomeGoods, Dollar General, AutoZone, Williams Sonoma and Kia. Target is rejoining the campaign for the first time since 2013 and will sell a co-branded plush bear.
The hospital's website spells out what donations can do: $10 could help provide a new toy for hospital play areas, $50 could provide art supplies used in therapy, $100 could help provide a red wagon, the preferred way for the youngest patients to travel the hospital's halls, $250 could help provide a meal card covering a family's breakfast, lunch and dinner for one week at the Kay Kafe cafeteria, and $1,000 could help provide forgotten day-to-day necessities for 20 families. Supporters can also send a free online holiday card to St. Jude kids.
Founded by entertainer Danny Thomas in 1962, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit medical corporation at 262 Danny Thomas Place in Memphis, leading research and treatment of childhood cancer and other catastrophic diseases, and sharing the breakthroughs it makes with doctors and scientists worldwide. (Source: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital)
Source: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
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Photo: 图：位于田纳西州 Memphis 的圣裘德儿童研究医院院区。David Adams 摄，CC BY-SA 3.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: The St. Jude Children's Research Hospital campus in Memphis, Tennessee. Photo by David Adams, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
