Make a Donation that Counts!

The Nautica South Beach Triathlon is excited to be partnering with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital! Your fundraising efforts as a Corporate Challenge Athlete will help St. Jude achieve its mission of finding cures and saving children around the world. By helping raise funds for St. Jude your courage, strength and spirit will help those who need it the most: the young patients at St. Jude.

Click here to view the donation website for the 2010 Nautica South Beach Triathlon!

St. Jude's Mission

The mission of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is to advance cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment. Consistent with the vision of St. Jude's founder Danny Thomas, no child is denied treatment based on race, religion or a family's ability to pay.

Vision

St. Jude's vision is to be the world leader in advancing the treatment and prevention of catastrophic diseases in children. This vision will be pursued by providing outstanding patient care; by conducting basic, translational and clinical research designed to elucidate biological mechanisms, understand disease pathogenesis, improve diagnosis, enhance treatment outcome, prevent diseases and minimize adverse consequences of treatment; and by educating health care and scientific research professionals. Through these efforts St. Jude seeks to cure and enhance the quality of life for an increasing proportion of children who come to them for treatment, and by expanding and sharing knowledge, to advance treatment of children with catastrophic diseases worldwide, while developing strategies to prevent catastrophic diseases in children.

Values

St. Jude's foremost responsibilities are to the children with catastrophic diseases, their families, and to the donors that have committed their personal resources toward St. Jude's Mission. To fully meet these responsibilities, St. Jude is committed to an explicit set of values. These values are the standards of behavior that St. Jude uses to guide their daily actions and decisions. They will ensure that these standards of behavior are adhered to through ongoing training of all personnel working at St. Jude, and by annually evaluating the executive leadership, faculty and staff in their adherence to these values.

St. Jude's values of ethical behavior are an important part of who they are, and their incorporation into the fabric of the institution directly impacts St. Jude's ability to make progress toward achieving their Mission, while simultaneously strengthening their reputation.

• A commitment to provide their patients with the highest quality of medical and supportive care, and their families with the level of information and support necessary for them to make informed decisions and to become active participants in the care of their children.
• A commitment to respect the ethnic, cultural, religious and lifestyle differences of patients, their families, their colleagues and supporters.
• A commitment to their donors that every dollar donated will be wisely spent toward achieving St. Jude's Mission of advancing cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic disease through research and treatment.
• A commitment to a culture of excellence, innovation and creativity, not only in their research, but in everything they do.
• A drive and a sense of urgency to succeed.
• Honesty, integrity, and accountability in their actions and decisions.
• A culture of trust and teamwork.
• Respect for the employees under their supervision.
• A commitment to the continual development of their employees.
• A commitment to diversity.
• A commitment to social responsibility and institutional citizenship on a local, state, national and global level.

To effectively live up to these ideals, institutional leaders and all employees of St. Jude must maintain a culture that promotes adherence to these values in all that they do.