圣裘德第23届感恩与给予行动开启：50多个品牌加入，患儿家庭治疗食宿交通全免单
位于田纳西州 Memphis 的圣裘德儿童研究医院开启第23届 Thanks and Giving（感恩与给予）假日行动，名人、媒体与50多个全国品牌一起出面，号召全美购物者在假日季捐款，支持医院救治患癌症和其他重症的儿童。医院全国外展主任 Marlo Thomas 与 Drew Barrymore、Luis Fonsi、Jon Hamm、Michael Strahan、Sofia Vergara 等长期支持者共同为今年的行动站台。
这家医院有一条坚持多年的规矩：患儿家庭永远不会收到治疗、交通、住宿和食物的账单。今年参与的品牌包括 Domino's、KAY、HomeGoods、Dollar General、AutoZone、Williams Sonoma 和 Kia 等，Target 自2013年以来首次回归这项行动，并将推出一款联名毛绒小熊。
捐款能办成什么事，医院官网列得很具体：10美元可以为医院游戏区添一件新玩具，50美元可以提供艺术治疗用的美术用品，100美元可以帮助添置一辆红色小推车，那是年幼患儿在医院走廊里最常用的代步工具，250美元够一个家庭在医院餐厅 Kay Kafe 用一周的餐卡，1,000美元可以为20个家庭备齐匆忙离家时忘带的生活必需品。官网还可以免费给患儿发送电子节日贺卡。
圣裘德儿童研究医院1962年由艺人 Danny Thomas 创办，是一家 501(c)(3) 非营利医疗机构，院址在 Memphis 的 262 Danny Thomas Place，专门研究和治疗儿童癌症等重症，取得的研究突破会与全球同行分享。（来源：圣裘德儿童研究医院）
St. Jude Opens Its 23rd Thanks and Giving Campaign: More Than 50 Brands Join, and Families Never Receive a Bill
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, has opened its 23rd annual Thanks and Giving holiday campaign, bringing together celebrities, media and more than 50 leading national brands to encourage shoppers across the country to donate in support of children with cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Marlo Thomas, the hospital's national outreach director, is joined by longtime supporters Drew Barrymore, Luis Fonsi, Jon Hamm, Michael Strahan and Sofia Vergara.
One rule defines the hospital: families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food. Participating brands this year include Domino's, KAY, HomeGoods, Dollar General, AutoZone, Williams Sonoma and Kia. Target is rejoining the campaign for the first time since 2013 and will sell a co-branded plush bear.
The hospital's website spells out what donations can do: $10 could help provide a new toy for hospital play areas, $50 could provide art supplies used in therapy, $100 could help provide a red wagon, the preferred way for the youngest patients to travel the hospital's halls, $250 could help provide a meal card covering a family's breakfast, lunch and dinner for one week at the Kay Kafe cafeteria, and $1,000 could help provide forgotten day-to-day necessities for 20 families. Supporters can also send a free online holiday card to St. Jude kids.
Founded by entertainer Danny Thomas in 1962, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit medical corporation at 262 Danny Thomas Place in Memphis, leading research and treatment of childhood cancer and other catastrophic diseases, and sharing the breakthroughs it makes with doctors and scientists worldwide. (Source: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital)
来源：圣裘德儿童研究医院
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图片来源：图：位于田纳西州 Memphis 的圣裘德儿童研究医院院区。David Adams 摄，CC BY-SA 3.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: The St. Jude Children's Research Hospital campus in Memphis, Tennessee. Photo by David Adams, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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