Thank you for taking a moment to visit!

As many of you may know, I've been running and fundraising for the kids of St. Jude for quite some time now.  In fact, 2024 is my SILVER anniversary: 25 consecutive years supporting the mission of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital: Finding Cures, Saving Children.

To honor this milestone, I've set my fundraising goal to a very lofty (but, with your generous help, attainable) $25,000!

Every single dollar donated in support of this run makes an impact and goes directly to supporting patients, their families (who often travel to Memphis or one of the affiliate locations to stay with their child during their treatment), or research to help eliminate childhood cancer.  For example:

• $3 could help provide pediatric isolation masks to help protect patients with compromised immune systems
• $10 could help provide a new toy for hospital play areas or recreational areas at St. Jude housing facilities
• $25 could help provide a St. Jude patient with meals for one day
• $55 could help cover the cost of five platelet count tests
• $165 could help cover about one hour of physical therapy for a St. Jude patient
• $250 could help cover the cost of one chest X-ray for a St. Jude patient
• (See even more under Resources > St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Information > Gifts that Give on this site: https://stjuderuns.org/resources/ 

Treatments invented at St. Jude have been used throughout the world and have helped push the overall childhood cancer survivor rate from 20% (when St. Jude opened approximately 60 years ago) to more than 80% now.  That's incredible, but there is still work to be done!

Would you please make a donation to help support me - but more importantly, the kids of St. Jude - by making a donation today?

If you've donated to support my fundraising in the past, please consider whether you might be able to generously "dig a little deeper" this year to help me reach my goal.  If you've never donated before, please consider doing so.

If you are wary of making an online donation, you can mail a check to me, payable to "St. Jude Run" (contact me directly for my address).

If possible, please donate soon, rather than waiting until just before the run (which will be on Saturday, July 20th this year) or even after the run.  Knowing the amount raised in advance of the run allows our Run Coordinators to provide a more accurate estimate for what all of us runners have raised when we report out our fundraising total during the St. Jude Telethon.

Finally, if you've read this far, thank you!  I really want to help make a difference.  With your help, you can help make a difference, too!

James