St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Best Buy employees run the St. Jude Memphis Marathon Weekend

By Best Buy Company News

20 Dec: Record number of Best Buy employees run in the St. Jude Memphis Marathon Weekend

David Garcia felt a piercing pain in his left knee at mile 3 of the St. Jude Memphis Marathon Weekend last Saturday. But he kept going, determined to finish the full 26.2 miles with the support of his family and Team Best Buy.

“I rounded the corner, and there’s the Best Buy team cheering me on,” said David, vice president of retail operations and profit protection. “It made me happy to see them.”

He was one of 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.

An image of the logos for Best Buy and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

By Kloé Mallard Company News

13 Oct: Best Buy kicks off annual St. Jude Thanks and Giving campaign to fight childhood cancer

Treatments invented at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have helped push the childhood cancer survival rate from 20% to more than 80% since the hospital opened nearly 60 years ago. That astounding fact is just one of the many reasons Best Buy is welcoming back the Thanks and Giving® campaign this year.

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.

By Ale Valeriano Company News

19 Mar: Best Buy Celebrates $22.4M Raised for St. Jude, Becomes Largest Corporate Donor in Campaign History

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed many aspects of our lives, but one thing that hasn’t changed is the commitment our employees and customers have shown to help St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® in its mission to treat the toughest childhood cancers and pediatric diseases.

This year, we raised more than $22.4 million in stores and online during the holiday season, making Best Buy the largest corporate donor ever for the annual St. Jude Thanks and Giving® campaign. That’s on the heels of a record-breaking campaign last year, when we collected more than $22.5 million in donations — the most money brought in by a single partner in a given year.

By Natalie Albers Community Relations Company News

08 Mar: St. Jude visit offers Best Buy leaders a dose of hope

The anticipation of visiting a hospital for sick children can stir a range of emotions. Best Buy General Manager Derek Muller expected a heartbreaking experience of seeing kids fighting cancer and other diseases. Instead, on a tour of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital ® in Memphis, he saw hope.

“The children were all laughing and smiling and doing what kids their age should be doing — being kids,” he said. “I am so thankful for being able to be a part of this, to see what St.

By Natalie Albers Company News

29 Oct: St. Jude, Best Buy join to fight childhood cancer this holiday season

Since 2013, Best Buy has joined St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® in the fight against cancer and other life-threatening childhood diseases. In that time, our generous customers have shown their support by donating nearly $60 million in our stores and online!

The St. Jude Thanks and Giving® campaign is back at Best Buy for the sixth year, and this holiday season we hope to do even more to support the lifesaving mission of St. Jude: Finding cures. Saving children.® Watch the video to learn why Best Buy supports St.

By Natalie Albers Company News

29 Mar: Best Buy Employees Bring Tech Fun, $20 Million to St. Jude

If you shopped at Best Buy over the holiday season and gave to the St. Jude Thanks and Giving® campaign, this one’s for you. The dollars generously donated in our stores and online stacked up to a new record, and this week we were honored to donate $20 million to St. Jude on your behalf.

Best Buy employees and leaders from around the country traveled to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® in Memphis, Tennessee, to present the money, tour the family-focused facility, meet patients, and see miracles in the making.

By Best Buy Company News PR News Alerts

22 Feb: Best Buy Finishes as Top Fundraising Partner for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® Thanks and Giving® Campaign

Best Buy customers and employees helped raise more than $18.2 million during the holiday season for the research and treatment of childhood cancer

MINNEAPOLIS (February 22, 2017) – 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.

“We are deeply grateful to Best Buy, its dedicated employees and the customers who demonstrated a tremendous commitment to our lifesaving mission by raising an astounding $18.2 million during the St.

By Natalie Albers Community Relations Company News PR News Alerts

27 Oct: Best Buy Welcomes Back St. Jude Thanks and Giving Campaign in Stores, Online

Imagine hearing the words, “Your child has cancer.”

It’s something no family should have to experience, and a journey no child should have to endure. Unfortunately, each year thousands of children across the country spend part of their childhood fighting to have a future.

But when you hear the words, “St. Jude can help,” and learn about the life-saving work being done every day at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital^® … you also hear there is hope.

With the St.

By Best Buy Company News PR News Alerts Sustainability

20 Feb: Best Buy Helps Donate $9.7M to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®

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.