ALSAC, the fundraising and awareness organization for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®, recently launched its inaugural Week of Service, empowering employees to give back to their local communities.
MEMPHIS, Tenn., June 21, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- ALSAC, the fundraising and awareness organization for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®, recently launched its inaugural Week of Service, empowering employees to give back to their local communities. While ALSAC is based in Memphis, it has a network of field development offices around the country.
“Memphis is our home but our employees live, work and raise families in communities across the country,” said Richard Shadyac Jr., President and CEO of ALSAC. “This is a small way to give back to the communities that are generous to all of us at ALSAC, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and our shared mission.”
Approximately 500 ALSAC employees volunteered to help support 22 nonprofit organizations, schools and agencies to advance their missions. In Shelby County, ALSAC supported the following:
- Uptown Garden
- Caldwell Guthrie Elementary School
- Mid-South Food Bank
- Memphis City Beautiful/Memphis RiverParks Partnership
- Memphis Field: Mississippi Project Package
- MIFA Meals on Wheels
- Mid-south Food Bank
- Memphis Union Mission and Neighborhood Christian Center
- First Congregation Church Food Bank
- St. Jude Art Party
- Neighborhood Christian Center
- FACE Low Cost Animal Clinic
- St. Mary’s Soup Kitchen
- Habitat for Humanity ReStore
- Memphis Athletic Ministries
In total, ALSAC staff completed 32 service projects and invested approximately 2,000 hours over the five-day period to deliver 200 Fourth of July care packages for active military; 15,000 flashcards for public elementary schools; and 1,360 sandwiches for the hungry. Additionally, staff rehabilitated a Memphis community garden in Uptown; beautified a Memphis public park; delivered meals to the elderly; and visited animal shelters to deliver supplies and share their love.
Finally, employees also had the option to commemorate the occasion by participating in an independent service project.
About St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Its purpose is clear: Finding cures. Saving children.® It is the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center devoted solely to children. Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20 percent to more than 80 percent since the hospital opened more than 50 years ago. St. Jude won’t stop until no child dies from cancer. St. Jude freely shares the discoveries it makes, and every child saved at St. Jude means doctors and scientists worldwide can use that knowledge to save thousands more children. 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. Join the St. Jude mission by visiting stjude.org, sharing stories and videos from St. Jude Inspire, liking St. Jude on Facebook, following St. Jude on Twitter and Instagram and subscribing to its YouTube channel.
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SOURCE ALSAC/St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
