- From November 16, 2023, via January 2, 2024, Kia will make a donation to St. Jude Kids’s Analysis Hospital for every new eligible Kia car bought, or leased, and delivered within the U.S.
- Kia’s minimal financial donation of $1,500,000 will assist St. Jude’s mission to advance cures, and technique of prevention, for catastrophic pediatric ailments via analysis and therapy[1]
IRVINE, Calif., November 21, 2023 – For the second consecutive yr, Kia America will assist St. Jude Kids’s Analysis Hospital with a donation for every new eligible Kia car bought, or leased, and delivered within the U.S. between November 16, 2023 and January 2, 2024. The minimal $1,500,000 donation is a part of Kia’s ongoing assist of St. Jude Kids’s Analysis Hospital via it’s “Speed up the Good” charitable initiative. Final yr, Kia donated $1.35 million and was named the 2023 St. Jude New Company Associate of the Yr.
To drive consciousness about St. Jude and its dedication to households whose youngsters are recognized with most cancers and different life-threatening ailments, Kia is launching a 30-second broadcast spot entitled “The Season of Giving Again,” which particulars Kia’s long-standing partnership with St. Jude. Kia’s donation will assist the St. Jude mission of advancing therapies and cures for pediatric ailments and the promise that no household ever receives a invoice from St. Jude for therapy, journey, housing or meals — to allow them to concentrate on serving to their baby dwell. For extra info, please go to www.kia.com/seasonofgivingback.
“Kia is proud to as soon as once more accomplice with St. Jude Kids’s Analysis Hospital to drive consciousness of their all-important mission and supply funds to assist youngsters and their households obtain the world-class care and assist they deserve,” mentioned Steven Middle, COO and EVP, Kia America. “After 15 months of consecutive year-over-year gross sales development, we anticipate a robust end to 2023 and stay up for Kia making an much more sizable donation than we did final yr. Kia is honored to be a small a part of the affect St. Jude Kids’s Analysis Hospital makes on the lives of individuals nationwide.”
“The partnership between Kia and St. Jude is rooted in creativity and compassion, and we’re as soon as once more grateful to Kia’s management, vendor community and prospects who maintain this mission so expensive,” mentioned Richard C. Shadyac, Jr., President and CEO of ALSAC, the fundraising and consciousness group for St. Jude Kids’s Analysis Hospital. “Thanks partly to partnerships rooted in goal like this one, St. Jude is increasing our lifesaving mission globally to assist guarantee youngsters in all places have the possibility to rejoice each second.”
This donation is an additional extension of Kia’s “Speed up the Good” charitable initiative, which has offered greater than $22 million to these in want since 2019. Kia has made donations to causes that embrace treating childhood sickness, serving to to combat starvation and homelessness, reduction for victims of pure disasters, and support for army households.
Kia actively encourages its workers, vendor community and vendor companions to supply further assist. For info on the best way to donate please go to www.stjude.org.
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About St. Jude Kids’s Analysis Hospital®
St. Jude Kids’s Analysis Hospital is main the best way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood most cancers and different life-threatening ailments. Its goal is evident: Discovering cures. Saving youngsters.® It’s the solely Nationwide Most cancers Institute-designated Complete Most cancers Middle devoted solely to youngsters. When St. Jude opened in 1962, childhood most cancers was largely thought-about incurable. Since then, St. Jude has helped push the general survival charge from 20% to greater than 80%, and it will not cease till no baby dies from most cancers. St. Jude shares the breakthroughs it makes to assist docs and researchers at native hospitals and most cancers facilities world wide enhance the standard of therapy and look after much more youngsters. Due to beneficiant donors, households by no means obtain a invoice from St. Jude for therapy, journey, housing or meals, to allow them to concentrate on serving to their baby dwell. Go to St. Jude Encourage to find highly effective St. Jude tales of hope, power, love and kindness. Assist the St. Jude mission by donating at stjude.org, liking St. Jude on Fb, following St. Jude on Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and TikTok, and subscribing to its YouTube channel.
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[1] Kia will donate $14.00 for each new Kia car that’s bought or leased at approved Kia dealerships, and delivered to retail prospects, between November 16, 2023 and January 2, 2024 – with a assured minimal donation of $1,500,000 to St. Jude Kids’s Analysis Hospital® See www.kia.com/seasonofgivingback for extra particulars.
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