St. Jude Dream Home® Giveaway
Enter the St. Jude Dream Home® Giveaway for your chance at a dream-come-true home — all while supporting the kids of St. Jude, where families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food. To get involved as a sponsor, construction donor or social influencer, email our Mid-America team.
St. Jude Walk/Run® - Kansas City
Gather with friends, family and your community for the St. Jude Walk/Run. Taking place each September during Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, this free family-friendly event is where you can have fun and get fit while supporting the lifesaving mission of St. Jude: Finding cures. Saving children.®
Not in Kansas City? Click to find a walk/run in your area.
St. Jude Heroes Program
Run for a greater purpose when you commit to being a St. Jude Hero®. When you register for your race as a St. Jude Hero, you gain access to an online training program, race-day perks — from a St. Jude singlet to hotel accommodations, depending on your event and fundraising commitment — and possibly even entry into the most exclusive races in the world.
St. Jude supporters from Tri Delta smile for a selfie outside Tri Delta Place, a housing facility on the St. Jude campus.
Tri Delta Partners
Tri Deltas are dedicated to helping children live, scientists learn and St. Jude further its mission of finding cures for childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. St. Jude is grateful for its strong relationships with five Tri Delta chapters in our region — Creighton University, University of Kansas, Kansas State University, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Wichita State University.
St. Jude patient Emma shows off the This Shirt Saves Lives shirt.
Radio Partners
Radio listeners in Kansas City Metro and across Kansas and Nebraska unite in the lifesaving misson of St. Jude during our annual radiothons. We are grateful to our partners who join us in the mission.
KZSN • KFGE • WIBW • KFKF • KUSO • KYEZ • KRNY • KUTT • KMMQ
St. Jude is working to drive the overall survival rate for childhood cancer to 90 percent, and we won't stop until no child dies from cancer.
High school students from Kansas City-area high schools unify for Team Up for Kansas City.
High School Partners
As a St. Jude patient sibling, Tatum saw the impact of pediatric cancer on her family and recognized the importance of teaming up high school students across Kansas City to support St. Jude. Since its inception in 2016, Team Up for St. Jude KC has raised over $290,000 to further the lifesaving mission of St. Jude.
Event photos from Mid-America
-
Kansan Joe Skillen
-
St. Jude Dream Home Giveaway - Kansas City
When St. Jude opened in 1962, childhood cancer was considered largely incurable. Since then, St. Jude has helped push the overall survival rate from 20% to more than 80%, and we won't stop until no child dies from cancer.
St. Jude patient Luna
St. Jude stories from Mid-America
-
“If it wasn’t for St. Jude, you guys wouldn’t be here”
The family of a 1960s era St. Jude patient honors their patriarch with Papa’s Bear Cubs, a team for St. Jude Walk/Run Kansas City
-
St. Jude came too late for her little sister but Kansas woman holds it dear
She started supporting St. Jude before it even opened, a little girl learning to count change by the nickels she saved. So began a lifetime of love for the cause.
-
Kansas minister pushes to do more for St. Jude patients with a light-hearted approach to fundraising
Joe Skillen has run the St. Jude Memphis Marathon in a suit and believes fundraising should include a bit of fun.
-
Teen's high school scrapbook documents St. Jude 'adventure'
Abby's kindness is evidence of parents' philosophy during brain cancer treatment.
-
Heart of an IRONMAN: St. Jude dad trains with the help of his son
Chris thought about quitting. But he persevered, and has set a new challenge for himself at the St. Jude IRONMAN 70.3 Memphis triathlon in 2021.
-
Mom, business manager, philanthropist: Sam Lupo juggles it all with grace
The wife and business manager of megawatt Twitch streamer DrLupo runs a multimillion dollar business, while also raising millions to help St. Jude.
-
Because of Brady, Andrew runs
Andrew Mortimer runs in the St. Jude Memphis Marathon® to honor his baby brother, Brady, and to inspire more people to give.
You can support the children of St. Jude in the way that best suits your financial and personal goals.
IRAs, donor-advised funds, stocks, gift annuities, trusts and more — choose the planned giving option that is right for you, and your generosity will help children with cancer and other life-threatening diseases.
Email our Individual Giving team or visit the link below for more planned giving options.
Give with purpose by creating opportunities for your organization's team members to donate to St. Jude through their work.
Whether you want to sponsor an event or a national campaign, establish workplace giving, or have an executive serve on our Advisory Council, we look forward to partnering with you.
Email our Corporate Engagement team or visit the link below to learn more.
Contact us directly to get involved and find ways to connect. You can also like us on Facebook and follow us on Instagram to stay up-to-date about the exciting events in Kansas City Metro, Kansas and Nebraska.
Kansas City, MO
2300 Main Street, Suite 305
Kansas City, MO 64108
Fill out the form to learn about the ways you can donate your time to help St. Jude.
Meet St. Jude patients
-
Meet Mila
Mila was found to have both Down Syndrome and a leukemia precursor. She underwent months of chemotherapy at St. Jude for acute myeloid leukemia, but even on days she didn’t feel great, she was smiling and playing.
-
Meet Charlie
Diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma in his shoulder, Charlie was referred to St. Jude then underwent chemotherapy and surgery to replace a cancerous bone with titanium.
-
Meet Ava
At 6 years old, Ava had a lump on her neck and tests showed she had more lumps in her belly. Tests revealed that she had a cancerous tumor and was referred to St. Jude.
-
Meet Kamryn
At 2 years old, Kamryn's bloodwork indicated he had a form of blood cancer called acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Doctors referred him to St. Jude where he would undergo more than 2 years of chemotherapy while growing to love activities like Music Therapy.