Campaign memorializing sickle cell pioneer Dr. Rudolph Jackson raises more than $2 million for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
event, which celebrated the more than $2 million raised through the ongoing Dr. Rudolph Jackson Campaign to help advance the mission of St. Jude: Finding cures. Saving children®.
for this extraordinary campaign. ABCD & Company pledged $500,000 toward the Dr. Jackson campaign and Speer Charitable Trust, which was formed from the estate of long-time St. Jude supporter Dr. R. Wayne Speer, also donated $500,000 as part of a broader 5-year commitment to St. Jude.
Jackson’s journey as one of the first Black doctors and prominent early researchers to join St. Jude.
Reginald Porter, Chief Diversity Equity and Inclusion Officer and Senior Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility at ALSAC, the fundraising and awareness organization for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
cell disease to address anemia, parasitic infections and growth impairments that also threatened children in the 1960s, especially those in low-income households. He helped develop a program under which St. Jude enrolled thousands of local infants and mothers to receive nutritional assistance, medicine and diapers. The program served as a prototype for WIC, the federal initiative for women, infants and children.
help continue his legacy by joining St. Jude supporters at fundraising
events to share stories about their father. Marter recently talked about her father’s outlook on the future of healthcare for African Americans. “It was important for my dad to understand what it was like for all African Americans,” said Marter. “He wanted to make sure that other physicians came up with the same type of education and opportunities in other hospitals so that we would have representation all across the world.”
60th anniversary of the opening of St. Jude in 1962. To learn more about the history of St. Jude, visit stjude.org.
Latest Stories
- Cook County Assessor’s Office Hosts Inaugural Neighborhood Housing Forum
- Celebrity Chef Carla Hall and The Fresh Market Team Up to Support Alzheimer’s Association During Month of June
- ONYX MEDICAL WELLNESS CELEBRATES GRAND OPENING & RIBBON CUTTING IN CHICAGO’S SOUTH SHORE DURING PRIDE MONTH
- 5th Annual Cook County Juneteenth Illinois Celebration to Be Held June 14th
- “NO MORE CUTS TO KIDS’ FUTURES”
Latest Podcast
STARR Community Services International, Inc.
