Best Buy has made is easier to join the fight against childhood cancer
Best Buy is excited to partner with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital® this holiday season for the annual St. Jude Thanks and Giving® campaign.
Today through Jan. 27, customers can help support the fight against childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases when they shop at any Best Buy, Best Buy Mobile, Pacific Sales or Magnolia Design Center. Customers will be able to donate in stores or online. New to BestBuy.com this year, customers will be able to easily donate any amount they want when they checkout online.
"For the past five years, we have been honored to partner with St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital to help find cures and save children through their Thanks and Giving campaign," said Paula Baker, president of U.S. retail stores, Best Buy. "Last year, our customers and employees donated more than $18.2 million – the highest of any fundraising partner – and we look forward to another year of continuing this work."
Every dollar donated by customers and employees helps St. Jude remain a leader in the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. These funds are critical given that no family ever receives a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food because all a family should worry about is helping their child live.
"It is powerful to see our friends at Best Buy rally their employees and customers to help transform the holiday season into a time of giving back by giving to St. Jude and helping children everywhere," said Richard Shadyac Jr., President and CEO of ALSAC, the fundraising and awareness organization for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. "We are incredibly grateful for their generosity, which enables our doctors and scientists to continue to pursue lifesaving research and treatments while allowing us to keep our founding promise that no family ever pays St. Jude for anything."
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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