ALSAC named one of Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators 2023

Fundraising and awareness organization for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital honored for sustained innovation

MEMPHIS, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--For the fourth year in a row, ALSAC, the fundraising and awareness organization for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital^®, has been recognized by Fast Company as one of the most innovative global workplaces as part of the business magazine’s 2023 Best Workplaces for Innovators list.

Fast Company evaluates company cultures across industry categories such as sustainability, education, food and nonprofits, highlighting companies that empower employees to create new products or invent new ways of doing business. In an encore performance of 2022, ALSAC was named a standout in the nonprofit category among five finalists that impressed the judges with their internal cultures of innovation. In 2020, ALSAC ranked number one on the Best Workplaces for Innovators list for its innovative and disruptive approach to philanthropy.

“We are deeply honored to once again be recognized as a top employer for innovators around the world,” said Richard C. Shadyac Jr., President and CEO of ALSAC. “ALSAC’s readiness to challenge the status quo and create new solutions fuels St. Jude to help more of the 400,000 kids around the world with cancer each year. It’s a testament to each and every one of our 1,700 employees, who are empowered to keep pace with a rapidly changing landscape to raise the funds necessary to support the $12.9 billion St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital strategic plan.”

Channel your inner innovator and help ALSAC raise funds for the lifesaving mission of St. Jude: Finding cures. Saving children.^®

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital^®

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Its purpose is clear: Finding cures. Saving children.^® It is the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center devoted solely to children. When St. Jude opened in 1962, childhood cancer was largely considered incurable. Since then, St. Jude has helped push the overall survival rate from 20% to more than 80%, and it won't stop until no child dies from cancer. St. Jude shares the breakthroughs it makes to help doctors and researchers at local hospitals and cancer centers around the world improve the quality of treatment and care for even more children. Because of generous donors, families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food, so they can focus on helping their child live. Visit St. Jude Inspire to discover powerful St. Jude stories of hope, strength, love and kindness. Support the St. Jude mission by donating at stjude.org, liking St. Jude on Facebook, following St. Jude on Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and TikTok, and subscribing to its YouTube channel.