Post by IamChiib on Apr 24, 2015 12:39:54 GMT -6
Hey guys, as you know I am going to be fundraising for St. Jude all of May. I have a team called the "Derpsquad" if anyone would like to join me and help raise money for the children. ^^
All you have to do is click the button on my profile! playlive.stjude.org/chiib
Don't think that your contribution will help? Any amount helps, big or small. 50 cents from your grandma is 50 cents more than the kids had if you hadn't asked her!
I've listed a few ways that you can help spread the world and raise money for the children below.
1. Stream! Add our derpsquad link on your Twitch channel and stream for donations!
2. Not a streamer? Hand out the link above to your friends and family!
3. Tell people about St. Jude on the social media sites that you use!
(Twitter, Facebook, and etc)
You can also win awesome prizes by fundraising for St. Jude! Join our team and earn points that you can redeem for awesome prizes!
Some facts that you may find interesting about St. Jude
• St. Jude is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life threatening diseases.
• 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.
• Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood survival rate from 20 percent when the hospital opened in 1962 to more than 80 percent today.
• St. Jude is working to drive the overall survival rate for childhood cancer to 90 percent in the next decade. St. Jude won’t stop until no child dies from cancer.
• St. Jude has increased the survival rates for acute lymphoblastic leukemia from 4 percent before opening in 1962 to 94 percent today.
• St. Jude is where doctors often send their toughest cases, because St. Jude has the world’s best survival rates for some of the most aggressive forms of childhood cancers.
• St. Jude creates more clinical trials for cancer than any other children’s hospital and turns laboratory discoveries into life saving treatments that benefit patients every day.
• St. Jude freely shares its groundbreaking discoveries, and every child saved at St. Jude means doctors and scientists can use that knowledge to save thousands more children around the world.
• It will cost $885 million to run St. Jude in 2015 and 75 percent of those funds must come from donations.
• St. Jude has treated children from all 50 states and from around the world.
• On average, 7,800 active patients visit the hospital each year, most of whom are treated on an outpatient basis.
• St. Jude maintains 78 inpatient beds and treats upwards of 260 patients each day.
• St. Jude is the first and only pediatric cancer center to be designated as a Comprehensive Cancer Center by the National Cancer Institute.
• For the last four years, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has been named one of the country’s “100 Best Companies to Work For,” by FORTUNE magazine.
• The hospital's International Outreach Program transfers the progress achieved in the treatment of childhood cancer in developed countries to those with limited resources. St. Jude has 25 partner sites in 17 countries, and more than 41,000 registered users from 160 countries have accessed Cure4Kids.org, an Internet based distance learning
initiative. In addition, St. Jude trains thousands of medical professionals around the world through consultations, faculty visits to St. Jude and Cure4Kids.org.
• The medical and scientific staff published more than 780 articles in academic journals in Fiscal Year 2014. St. Jude’s
researchers are published and cited more often in high impact publications than any other private pediatric oncology institution in America.
• St. Jude is a World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Studies on the Ecology of Influenza Viruses in Animals and Birds.
• St. Jude is the national coordinating center for the National Cancer Institute funded Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium and the Children's Cancer Survivor Study.
All you have to do is click the button on my profile! playlive.stjude.org/chiib
Don't think that your contribution will help? Any amount helps, big or small. 50 cents from your grandma is 50 cents more than the kids had if you hadn't asked her!
I've listed a few ways that you can help spread the world and raise money for the children below.
1. Stream! Add our derpsquad link on your Twitch channel and stream for donations!
2. Not a streamer? Hand out the link above to your friends and family!
3. Tell people about St. Jude on the social media sites that you use!
(Twitter, Facebook, and etc)
You can also win awesome prizes by fundraising for St. Jude! Join our team and earn points that you can redeem for awesome prizes!
Some facts that you may find interesting about St. Jude
• St. Jude is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life threatening diseases.
• 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.
• Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood survival rate from 20 percent when the hospital opened in 1962 to more than 80 percent today.
• St. Jude is working to drive the overall survival rate for childhood cancer to 90 percent in the next decade. St. Jude won’t stop until no child dies from cancer.
• St. Jude has increased the survival rates for acute lymphoblastic leukemia from 4 percent before opening in 1962 to 94 percent today.
• St. Jude is where doctors often send their toughest cases, because St. Jude has the world’s best survival rates for some of the most aggressive forms of childhood cancers.
• St. Jude creates more clinical trials for cancer than any other children’s hospital and turns laboratory discoveries into life saving treatments that benefit patients every day.
• St. Jude freely shares its groundbreaking discoveries, and every child saved at St. Jude means doctors and scientists can use that knowledge to save thousands more children around the world.
• It will cost $885 million to run St. Jude in 2015 and 75 percent of those funds must come from donations.
• St. Jude has treated children from all 50 states and from around the world.
• On average, 7,800 active patients visit the hospital each year, most of whom are treated on an outpatient basis.
• St. Jude maintains 78 inpatient beds and treats upwards of 260 patients each day.
• St. Jude is the first and only pediatric cancer center to be designated as a Comprehensive Cancer Center by the National Cancer Institute.
• For the last four years, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has been named one of the country’s “100 Best Companies to Work For,” by FORTUNE magazine.
• The hospital's International Outreach Program transfers the progress achieved in the treatment of childhood cancer in developed countries to those with limited resources. St. Jude has 25 partner sites in 17 countries, and more than 41,000 registered users from 160 countries have accessed Cure4Kids.org, an Internet based distance learning
initiative. In addition, St. Jude trains thousands of medical professionals around the world through consultations, faculty visits to St. Jude and Cure4Kids.org.
• The medical and scientific staff published more than 780 articles in academic journals in Fiscal Year 2014. St. Jude’s
researchers are published and cited more often in high impact publications than any other private pediatric oncology institution in America.
• St. Jude is a World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Studies on the Ecology of Influenza Viruses in Animals and Birds.
• St. Jude is the national coordinating center for the National Cancer Institute funded Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium and the Children's Cancer Survivor Study.