St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is a place where kids with cancer and other catastrophic diseases can go for the best treatment in the world. Their families never pay a single dollar for treatment, travel, housing, or food. St. Jude is also on the leading edge of childhood cancer research and freely shares its findings around the world. Since day one, St. Jude has treated and cured patients regardless of race, religion, or financial standing.

Here is more about St. Jude’s mission from its website:

“St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital opened its doors on February 4, 1962, based on Danny's dream that "no child should die in the dawn of life." Since then, we’ve made incredible strides in childhood cancer research. We’ve helped improve the survival rate of childhood cancer from 20% to 80%. And ALL, the disease with a virtual death sentence in 1962, now has a survival rate of 94 percent.

Today, we’re a world leader in developing new, improved treatments for children with cancer, and we create more clinical trials for cancer than any other children's hospital. We freely share those breakthroughs, and every child saved at St. Jude means doctors and scientists worldwide can use that knowledge to save thousands more children.

And still today as when we opened our doors, families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food – because all they should worry about is helping their child live.

Danny Thomas passed away in 1991, but he left us with an enduring legacy and commitment to saving the lives of children everywhere. We won’t stop until no child dies from cancer.”

When you give to Juggling for Jude, your donation goes directly to St. Jude in the global fight against childhood cancer!