• St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases.
• Families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food – because all a family should worry about is helping their child live.
• Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20 percent to more than 80 percent since its opening. We won’t stop until no child dies from cancer.
• Because the majority of St. Jude funding comes from individual contributors and partners like Tau Kappa Epsilon, St. Jude has the freedom to focus on what matters most – saving kids regardless of their financial situation.
• St. Jude freely shares the discoveries it makes, and every child saved at St. Jude means doctors and scientists worldwide can use that knowledge to save thousands more children.

When Frater Danny Thomas (Gamma-Nu, Toledo), founder of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, spoke of the “unifying bond that grows from young men working together” in the fall 1978 issue of THE TEKE magazine, he was speaking of the positive actions of Tekes across the nation in support of St. Jude.

“Every time we’d think we had enough for the next year, researchers would come up with a bigger need,” said Danny. “Fortunately, with people like my Fraters in TKE, we have been able to accomplish what we initially thought was a hopeless task.”

As St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital continues to pave the way in groundbreaking medical advancements in the name of pediatric care, Tau Kappa Epsilon has been present for every milestone. We are excited to continue on the journey for years to come. 

To help chapters in their fundraising efforts to support St. Jude, the Offices of the Grand Chapter has designed a straightforward, comprehensive guide available for download today! 

Download the St. Jude Guide to Fundraising. 

Every year, chapters across TKE Nation plan, host and execute large events as fundraisers and charity tournaments; everything from golf tournaments to teeter-totters, fun-runs to pushing a bathtub, thousands of pushups to BBQs.

This guide will help you to see the challenges that a fundraising event may encounter and will teach you to turn them into opportunity. It will provide ideas for improving your existing event(s) and help ensure your chapter experiences success after all of the hours spent putting together your tournament or fundraiser. By combining experience, lessons learned, industry knowledge and past successes from other groups in TKE Nation, we’ve come up with ten steps to help you make your next fundraiser/philanthropy event a resounding success!

Download the A Guide to Successful Philanthropy Events.