Best Buy Finishes as Top Fundraising Partner for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® Thanks and Giving® Campaign
February 22 2017 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
Best Buy customers and employees helped raise
more than $18.2 million during the holiday season for the research
and treatment of childhood cancer
Thanks to its generous customers and supportive employees, Best
Buy is proud to have presented more than $18.2 million to St. Jude
Children’s Research Hospital® and to have finished as the
largest St. Jude Thanks and Giving® campaign donor this
holiday season.
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A group of Best Buy employees showed
patients new technology during a recent visit to St. Jude
Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, to present
$18.2 million raised during the Thanks and Giving holiday campaign.
Best Buy was the campaign's top fundraising partner. (Photo: St.
Jude Children's Research Hospital)
“We are deeply grateful to Best Buy, its dedicated employees and
the customers who demonstrated a tremendous commitment to our
lifesaving mission by raising an astounding $18.2 million during
the St. Jude Thanks and Giving campaign,” said Richard Shadyac Jr.,
President and CEO of ALSAC, the fundraising and awareness
organization for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. “Thanks to
this support, St. Jude will continue to lead the way the world
understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other
life-threatening diseases.”
Best Buy’s contribution increased by nearly 80 percent over a
year ago. Since welcoming the St. Jude Thanks and Giving campaign
into our stores and online four years ago, Best Buy has helped
raise nearly $40 million.
“Our customers and employees care deeply about supporting
research and treatment for childhood cancer and other
life-threatening diseases. Thanks to them, we are humbled to
be able to present more than $18.2 million to St. Jude Children’s
Research Hospital,” said Paula Baker, Best Buy’s chief human
resources officer. “We’re grateful for the generosity and passion
of our customers and employees during the holiday season.”
This year’s Best Buy contribution makes a difference. The $18.2
million can run the hospital for more than a week. It can also be
used for 12,000 days of chemotherapy, or 3,600 days of intensive
care costs. Every dollar donated by customers and employees helps
St. Jude remain a leader in the global effort to research, treat
and defeat childhood cancer and other life-threatening
diseases.
“Best Buy’s support is nothing short of extraordinary and allows
our doctors and scientists to continue our lifesaving work,” said
Marlo Thomas, National Outreach Director for St. Jude Children’s
Research Hospital. "Funds raised as a result of Best Buy’s
commitment and participation in the St. Jude Thanks and Giving
campaign help ensure no family ever receives a bill from St. Jude
for anything – not for treatment, travel, housing or food, because
all a family should worry about is helping their child live.”
About St. Jude Children’s Research
Hospital:St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is
leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood
cancer and other life-threatening diseases. It is the only National
Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center devoted
solely to children. Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped
push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20 percent to
80 percent since the hospital opened more than 50 years ago. 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. St. Jude freely shares the discoveries it makes, and every
child saved at St. Jude means doctors and scientists worldwide can
use that knowledge to save thousands more children. Families never
receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food
– because all a family should worry about is helping their child
live. Join the St. Jude mission by visiting stjude.org or
following St. Jude
on facebook.com/stjude and twitter.com/stjude.
About Best Buy:Best Buy is a
leading provider of technology products, services and solutions.
The company offers expert service at an unbeatable price more than
1.5 billion times a year to the consumers, small business owners
and educators who visit our stores, engage with Geek Squad Agents
or use BestBuy.com or the Best Buy app. The company has operations
in the U.S. where more than 70 percent of the population lives
within 15 minutes of a Best Buy store, as well as in Canada and
Mexico, where Best Buy has a physical and online presence.
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