a record 18 members of Team Best Buy who showed up in Tennessee’s second-biggest city with two goals in mind: to fundraise and finish.
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
The annual holiday campaign returns to Best Buy on Oct. 10, and we’re asking our employees and customers to come together to support children with cancer and other life-threatening diseases.
We have collected more than $125 million in donations since 2013.
They toured the hospital, visited patients and presented a check for $20.8 million.
The St. Jude Thanks and Giving® campaign is back at Best Buy for the sixth year.
The money was raised during the Thanks and Giving holiday campaign.
Thanks to its generous customers and supportive employees, Best Buy is proud to have presented more than $18.2 million to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® and to have finished as the largest St. Jude Thanks and Giving® campaign donor this holiday season.
With the St. Jude Thanks and Giving® campaign underway now at Best Buy, the company continues its partnership in helping St. Jude find cures for children fighting cancer by accepting donations at more than 1,400 Best Buy store locations and on BestBuy.com.
Photos: Courtesy of St. Jude
This past holiday, Mary Collett’s Best Buy mobile store in Odessa, Texas, was a company-wide leader in contributing to the St. Jude Thanks and Giving® campaign.
On Wednesday, she got to see first-hand all the good that money can do at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®.
“Until you visit St. Jude, you don’t really grasp the immenseness of it all,” she said during the tour of the Memphis-based hospital. “There are so many staff members.