The 2015 Country Cares For St. Jude Kids Radiothon is March 5-6 from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Each year Kicker 102.5 sets aside two days to raise money for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

There are several amazing facts about St. Jude that you need to know.

  • Families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing and 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 it opened in 1962.
  • St. Jude is working to drive the overall survival rate for childhood cancer to 90 percent in the next decade. We won’t stop until no child dies from cancer.
  • St. Jude freely shares the breakthroughs we make, and every child saved at St. Jude means doctors and scientists worldwide can use that knowledge to save thousands more children.
  • Because the majority of St. Jude funding comes from individual contributors, St. Jude has the freedom to focus on what matters most – saving kids regardless of their financial situation.
  • St. Jude was founded by the late entertainer Danny Thomas, who believed that “No child should die in the dawn of life.”

And the best part about St. Jude is that they freely share the breakthroughs they make, and every child saved at St. Jude means doctors and scientists worldwide can use that knowledge to save thousands more children. 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.

Join the St. Jude mission by visiting St. Jude online, liking St. Jude on Facebook and following them on Twitter. 

About St. Jude:

Darius Rucker is inspired by St. Jude children.

Remember for just $20 a month you can become a Partner in Hope and help find a cure for childhood cancer. Call 1-800-372-4999. That's 1-800-372-4999 between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. Thursday and Friday. Everyone who becomes a Partner in Hope will be entered to win some really great prizes from Kicker 102.5!

Here's what you'll have a chance to win when you become a Partner in Hope.

Grand Prize: "Triple Play Concert Package" includes two tickets to the Certified Platinum Tour on March 20 to see Miranda Lambert and Justin Moore at CenturyLink Center. Two tickets to the Wheels Up Tour May 8 to see Lady Antebellum, Hunter Hayes, and Sam Hunt at CenturyLink Center, 2 tickets to Railfest 2015, May 16, in Texarkana featuring Chase Rice with special guest The Dusty Rose Band and a collector's edition autographed Dr. Pepper guitar.

(Autographed by: Dustin Lynch, Randy Owen, Sam Hunt, Gloriana, The Band Perry, Kevin Fowler, A Thousand Horses, Chase Bryant and many more)

There will be many more prizes for you to win throughout the Radiothon from our "Angel of of the Hour" participating sponsors. Thanks to our Tote Board sponsor this year Harte Hanks and our Business Partners of the Day SW Arkansas REA and America's Drive In Sonic also providing prizes.

Country Cares for St. Jude Kids is one of the most successful radio fundraising events in America. Since the program began in 1989, more than 200 radio stations across the country have participated, raising $500 million in cash and pledges for the children of St. Jude -- proving once again that country music listeners are the greatest!

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