Colton Bradley
Informative Speech
Professor Carlson
COM 101
Topic: St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (Nonprofit Organization)
General Purpose: To inform
Specific Purpose: To inform the audience about what St. Jude is and how they are impacting children’s and families lives every day.
Thesis: St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is a non-profit organization that has three pillars that they strive to achieve every day, as well as give everyone the opportunity to help out these sick children and their families.
I. Introduction
A) Attention Getter: More than 67,000 children. That is the number of children that visit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital each year. Children from all 50 states and all over the world have been treated at St. Jude in Memphis, Tennessee. Over the past
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Another example of how St. Jude is at the front of the research world is that “St. Jude is a world leader in developing new, improved treatments for children with cancer”. St. Jude successfully treats cancer at a better rate than most hospitals in the world. St Jude is also known as one of the “top national referral center for children with tough-to-treat forms of cancer”.
3. The third and final pillar represents survival rates and how they are pushing to continue to increase the survival rate of these deadly diseases.
a. Since the opening of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in 1962, survival rates have skyrocketed. The overall cancer survival rate has more than quadrupled since the opening of hospital.
b. According to stjude.org, cancer survival rate has gone from 20 percent to more than 80 percent since their opening. Along with the cancer survival rate having risen so drastically, the survival rates for acute lymphoblastic leukemia have risen from 4 percent when St. Jude first opened to nearly 94 percent today.
Transition: Now that I have covered the three pillars of St. Jude, I will discuss ways for people to get involved with St. Jude and what they can do to
Specific Purpose Statement: To persuade my audience to donate blood through the American Red Cross.
What were your goals for this project? Our goals for this project is to raise at least $100 for Saint Jude Children’s Research Hospital, but also to earn a good grade. We decide to choose St. Jude because Manuela personally has a one year old boy and she had commented that she saw a television commercial were a young boy was suffering from this horrible disease, but unfortunately lost his battle against cancer. We want create consciousness that with just donating 63 cents a day and $19 a month we can make a big difference, which you can help save a life of one of these children. Families who kids are receiving treatment, they never receive a bill charging them transportation and other services for example St. Jude pays for the children who
Annual Report. Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. Retrieved April 6, 2014, from
“The Story of St. Jude Children’s Hospital.” Archdiocese of St. Louis. N.p., Winter 2006. Web.
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