262 Danny Thomas PlaceMemphis, TN 38105

By: Wendy Mireles

ST. JUDE’S CHILDREN’S RESEARCH HOSPITAL

About Us✞ Founded by entertainer Danny Thomas February 4,

1962✞ This was the dream of Danny Thomas that “no child

should die in the dawn of life”✞ Main focus was on pediatric cancer✞ Began with 250 employees to now 3400✞ Began with an annual budget of $1 million to now more

than $400 million✞ AIDS research✞ Won the Congressional Gold Medal and Nobel Prize

Our Mission✞The mission of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is to advance cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment. Consistent with the vision of our founder Danny Thomas, no child is denied treatment based on race, religion or a family's ability to pay.

Our Values✞We have a commitment to provide highest quality of medical and supportive care to our patients

✞We respect the diversity and lifestyles of our patients and their families

✞We have honesty, integrity, and accountability in our actions and decisions

✞We have a commitment to our donors that anything spent will be towards accomplishing our mission of advancing cures for pediatric catastrophic disease through research and treatment

Cure4KidsSt. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital undergirds this program.

An international Medical Education Web Site and Online Collaboration Center

This web site is dedicated to support the care of children with cancer and catastrophic diseases worldwide

InputsHost a St. Jude walk event in your communitySupport St. Jude by helping out in a trike-a-thonHelp fundraising in a Warrior Dash, a mud-crawling, fire-leaping, or an extreme running event

Giving donations

OutputsThere have been over 2000 seminarsThere are 33149 users from 185 countries using Cure4Kids

Over 6 Million items have been viewed or downloaded.Millions of people are becoming more knowledgeable with cancer

Being able to help the prevention of cancer, or finding out the early symptoms of it

OutcomeThis program has many outcomes in which are: School children become more knowledgeable in cancer Children and their parents understand the basic science and

treatment of cancer Kids also learn how to live a healthy life This web site helps explicate cancer and how it works so

that even little children can understand it.

Community NeedMore than half of American die from cancer each year.More than 7.6 million people die from cancer each year.More than 100,000 children from cancer each year.Cancer can get anyone at any time, it is a very serious and dangerous disease.

Personal ConnectionAbout a year ago I had surgery to remove a lump/mass inside my left breast. We didn’t know what it was until I had surgery to remove it. Half the doctors said it could be breast cancer and the others said they really didn’t know what to tell me what it was. They said it was my decision if wanted to remove it or wait six months to see if anything happens. Being very frightened that it could be cancer I decided to have surgery and have it removed. A week after the surgery I finally got the call I wanted to hear. The doctor said that it was benign but if I had waited those six months to see if anything would have happened it would have turned into cancer. I was so glad I went thought the surgery, now I try to help out as much possible to people in need because you never know when your life can be taken away.

Shuttleworth FoundationMark Shuttleworth founded this foundation in 2001.The mission statement of this foundation is to help social innovators who help change the world.

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• To help social innovators who help change the world.

• “Being open about our work is vital if our ideas are to take hold for others to replicate them and benefit society. If we can shorten the time it takes a good idea to spread, by living out loud, then the results will speak for themselves.”

• To advance cures, and try to prevent diseases throughout research and treatment.

-Finding a cure for cancer can greatly change the would in saving thousands of lives all around the world.

• Cure4Kids is a website that doctors and nurses can use to update their information on what they know about cancer making it easier for people to share information and help advance the cures for any catastrophic diseases.

Shuttleworth Foundation Cure4Kids

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• The Shuttleworth foundation has all their accounts open being able for the whole public to see what they are doing.

• We have open blogs in which people can openly talk about their research for other to take the information they have found and put it to the test.

Shuttleworth Foundation Cure4Kids

Critical ActionThis web site helps to take information and share it all around the world into helping eachother (doctors,nurses,etc) help find the cure for these diseases.

Cure4kids helps take action after you have engaged in the critical thinking and reading by reading the material that is there and putting it to use with experimentation.

This program would help you to investigate in your own community and help those in need.

How can you be Involved!Link to Web SiteGeneral Information: (901)595-3300Donations: (800)822-6344Contact your regional office to help volunteer

Thank you for your time.

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