CTE Gives Back! August 2020

CABLE TIE EXPRESS GIVES BACK

AUGUST 2020 RECIPIENTS

Cable Tie Express through its CTE Gives Back! Program is pleased to announce the recipients for its August 2020 contributions - St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Juvenile Diabetic Research Foundation.   Both of these charities focus on the youngest members of our society – our children. 

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

It was Entertainer Danny Thomas who several decades ago had a dream – few words but with a very large vision – “no child should die in the dawn of life”.  His further thoughts spoke that “A dream is one thing.  A realization is something entirely different”.

That dream did indeed become a reality and it was in 1962 that a crowd of 9,000 stood together at the opening of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN.  Throughout its history, many milestones have been reached including the Hospital’s 1966 report of a 94% survival rate for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) using therapy that does not include radiation and, 32 years later in 2008, being named a National Cancer Institute Comprehensive Cancer Center, the first and only cancer center focused solely on pediatric cancer. More recently, in 2018, St Jude and the World Health Organization announced a 5-year collaborative team effort to cure at least 66% of the children with six of the most common kinds of cancer worldwide by 2030. 

The majority of funding for St. Jude comes from individual contributions and thanks to this generosity, families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food.

To learn more about St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, go to www.stjude.org.

Juvenile Diabetic Research Foundation

As the world’s largest nonprofit funder of type 1 diabetes (T1D) research, JDRF has the following two major goals:

1. TO CURE T1D:  Movement toward this goal includes helping the body’s inability to control glucose, reversing dependence on insulin and preventing the progress of T1D in those at risk or those who have been recently diagnosed.

2.   TO IMPROVE LIVES – The Foundation’s development of new drugs, therapies, and devices that make it easier are methods of improving lives of those with T1D until a cure is developed.  Since its inception in 1970, JDRF has made great strides in this arena such as the first engineered insulin 40 years ago to more recent advancements like artificial pancreas systems and more.

Click on www.jdrf.org to get more details about this 501 charity.