For Second Year In A Row, Best Buy Finishes as Top Fundraising Partner for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® Thanks &...
February 20 2018 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Best Buy customers and employees raised more
than $20 million to help fight cancer
For the second year in a row, Best Buy finished as the top
fundraising partner in the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®
Thanks and Giving® campaign, raising more than $20 million to help
fight childhood cancer and other diseases.
“Best Buy’s extraordinary dedication to St. Jude Children’s
Research Hospital during the holiday season has led to more than
$20 million in donations to support our mission of finding cures
and saving children,” said Richard Shadyac Jr., President and
CEO of ALSAC, the fundraising and awareness organization
for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. “We are so
appreciative of Best Buy’s support which enables St.
Jude to continue groundbreaking research and treatment
while keeping our founding promise 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.”
“The generosity of our customers and employees really makes a
difference,” said Laura Bishop, Best Buy’s chief corporate
responsibility and sustainability officer. “When a child is facing
a health crisis, a family’s world can turn upside down. St. Jude
ensures that parents can focus on helping their child get well. We
are proud to be a part of that.”
Best Buy joined the Thanks and Giving® campaign five years ago
and, by accepting donations in-store and online, has raised nearly
$60 million to support St. Jude.
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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ALSAC/St. Jude Children’s Research HospitalSarah
Clark,704-724-5394sarah.clark@stjude.orgorBest BuyBoua Xiong,
612-231-5146press@bestbuy.com
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