💖 How Your Donation Helps
Every dollar you give to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital helps ensure that families never receive a bill — not for treatment, travel, housing, or food. Because all they should worry about is helping their child live.
St. Jude is leading the way the world understands, treats, and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Since its founding in 1962, their pioneering research has increased the overall childhood cancer survival rate in the U.S. from 20% to 80% — and they freely share their discoveries so that doctors and researchers around the world can save even more children.
🏃♀️ Why It Matters to My Chicago Marathon Entry
I’m running the 2026 Bank of America Chicago Marathon as part of Team St. Jude, committing to raise $2,200 before race day. This fundraising minimum directly supports the hospital’s lifesaving mission — it’s the way charity runners like me earn our bibs and, more importantly, become part of something much bigger than ourselves.
Each dollar raised through this Hero Dash 5K goes toward my St. Jude fundraising goal and fuels:
- Research into new, gentler cancer treatments.
- Patient care that never sends a bill to families.
- Global outreach to share knowledge with hospitals worldwide.
- Hope for children whose futures depend on tomorrow’s breakthroughs.
🌟 The Connection Between Our Race and the Marathon
Your participation in the Hero Dash 5K isn’t just a fun community event — it’s a direct link in the chain that carries me (and thousands of others) to the Chicago Marathon start line, united for the children of St. Jude.
Every registration, every donation, every step helps fund another child’s chance to run, laugh, and grow up healthy.
Together, we’re not just crossing finish lines — we’re giving kids more tomorrows.
