Thank you for joining us for the ninth annual Around the World with St. Jude Gala in Tampa, Florida on November 2, 2024. This impactful annual event features cocktails, dinner, a silent and live auction, live entertainment and a personal story from a courageous St. Jude patient.

For more than 60 years, St. Jude has been working to improve global survival rates for children with cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Your continued support ensures families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food — so they can focus on helping their child live.

Matching gifts are an easy way to increase your donation to St. Jude — at no additional cost to you! Many employers support your altruistic efforts by offering matching gift programs to your favorite charities. Check if your employer will match your gift to St. Jude or contact us at matchinggifts@stjude.org.

For more information on sponsorship or volunteer opportunities, please contact Jessica Hong-Tanner at jessica.hong-tanner@alsac.stjude.org.

St. Jude has helped push the overall survival rate for childhood cancer from 20% when we first opened our doors to 80% today. We won’t stop until no child dies from cancer.

St. Jude patient Hayden and his parents

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St. Jude patient Han, pictured with family

IRA charitable contributions

If you're 70 ½ or older, you can contribute to St. Jude from your IRA and potentially receive tax benefits. You can have your IRA administrator use our sample letter.

Donor-advised funds

You can recommend a grant from your donor-advised fund by calling your fund manager or by signing in to your granting institution and selecting St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

Gifts of stock

When gifting stock, you can reference our transfer form, or call us at (800) 395-4341 to inform us of your gift, so we can properly acknowledge your gift and provide you with a tax receipt.

Charitable gift annuities

Charitable gift annuities may interest you if you want to transfer cash or securities to St. Jude and receive lifetime payments for yourself or a loved one.

Thank you to our committee

Event Co-Chairs
Kristen and Bill Perusek • Gennie and Mike Swenson

Honorary Chairs
Tom and Holly Malouf

Charbel Barakat • Michelle Concklin • Chase Corley • Christina Feely • Nicole Gee • Alison Haywood • Kseniya Korneva • Marty and Sherry Koscso • Julie Lawrence • Debbie Lazzara • Adrienne Fleming Lugo • Kim Malouf • Lexi Malouf • Katie Martinez • Tracy Monsour • Yoly Pierson • Cole Rix • Richard and Jule Salem • Kayla Segraves • Tye Swenson • Michelle Wasielewski • Valerie and Joey Younes

Highlights from Around the World with St. Jude over the years

Every dollar makes a difference*

... could help provide chemotherapy IV tubing sets*

A $100 donation could provide five chemotherapy IV tubing sets sized especially to help children receive treatment.*

Donate $100
... could help provide one day of oxygen for a St. Jude patient*

St. Jude patients may need oxygen to help their bodies function properly and aid in healing.

Donate $250
... could help provide four walkers for St. Jude patients*

Walkers provide St. Jude patients with stability and support, making it easier for them to walk after surgery.

Donate $500
... could help cover about two-thirds of the cost of one day of chemotherapy*

Treatments developed at St. Jude have helped push overall survival rates for childhood cancers from 20 percent when the hospital opened in 1962 to more than 80 percent today.

Donate $1,000
Donate $2,500
... could help cover the cost of the daily room rate of the ICU*

The Intensive Care Unit at St. Jude has twice been recognized 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.

Donate $5,000
Support of our mission

Any amount supports kids around the world. St. Jude shares the breakthroughs it makes, and every child saved at St. Jude means doctors and scientists worldwide can use that knowledge to save even more children.*

Donate Any Amount

* 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.

View information about tax-deductible donations.

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Around the World with St. Jude Gala