2020 Award Recipient
HollisBelger
Project Juggling for Jude
Project Juggling for Jude
Every year, roughly 11,000 American children under the age of 15 are diagnosed with cancer. Of these, 2,000 die. Hollis began raising money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital by juggling her soccer ball when she was eight years old. What started as a small endeavor became “Juggling for Jude,” which has raised over $450,000 for the hospital and sparked a lifelong dedication to youth philanthropy. Hollis’s fundraising efforts support St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital’s mission to provide free treatment to kids with cancer and to conduct cutting-edge cancer research.
She speaks to kids, teens, and adults across the country about the devastating impact of pediatric cancer and has inspired other young philanthropists to contribute to this and other causes. Hollis currently has a global Juggling for Jude Challenge social media campaign to fulfill her long-term goal of raising over $1 million for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Hollis turned her concern about pediatric cancer into Juggling for Jude, a sustained fundraising campaign which supports St. Jude Children’s Hospital’s mission to provide pediatric cancer treatment at no cost to its patients.
