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Thanks and Giving® 2025

Give A Gift That Could Last A Lifetime. At Brooks Brothers, we’re exceptionally proud to support St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®. For 21 years, we’ve been working together to help find cures for childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. And with your help, we’ve raised $24.8 million! In 2015, we established the Brooks Brothers Computational Biology Center on the St. Jude campus in Memphis. The center is an innovation that serves as their home for genomic research, working to unlock the genetic code of childhood cancer. Your contribution allows St. Jude to recruit talented scientists and analyze lifesaving data, and to continue the lifesaving work of St. Jude. We can defeat childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases with our continued support and dedication. Join us & support St. Jude. 100% of your donation benefits St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®.

Finding cures. Saving children®.

With your help, Brooks Brothers has raised $24.8 million for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital since 2005—and in 2015 established the Brooks Brothers Computational Biology Center on the St. Jude campus in Memphis.

The Brooks Brothers Computational Biology Center

In 2015 we established the Brooks Brothers Computational Biology Center, an innovation that serves as the St. Jude home for genomic research, working to unlock the genetic code of childhood cancer. Your contribution allows St. Jude to recruit talented scientists and analyze life-saving data, and to continue the lifesaving work of St. Jude.

St. Jude patient Stories: Colton

“I was playing basketball, and it felt like a bug flew in my ear,” recalled Colton. “Like, it was weird. It felt like my ear was underwater.” When the feeling didn’t go away, a doctor found a tumor blocking his eustachian tube. Colton was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma, a soft tissue cancer. Another student at Colton’s school in Arizona had been diagnosed with cancer a few years earlier. “I thought at the time, oh my gosh, it could happen to anybody,” said Colton’s mom. “But never did I dream it would happen to us.” This other child’s experience at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® prompted Colton’s parents to seek a referral. Colton received treatment at St. Jude. He said St. Jude is “the best place that you don’t want to be. They take care of you.” Artistic and athletic, Colton is a polite and confident kid who wears a suit on the first day of every school year to put his best foot forward with his teachers. He loves animals and missed his dog, Dakota, a lot while at St. Jude, but now he is finished with treatment and back at home with his family.

St. Jude patient Stories: Kenadie

Kenadie, the youngest in her family, is full of personality. This bubbly girl loves arts and crafts and has “hundreds” of her painted canvases decorating the family home. She also enjoys math and reading and, as she cheerfully admits, “bugging” her mom. When Kenadie was diagnosed with high-risk neuroblastoma in April of 2022, she was 8 years old. She was referred to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® right away. She finished treatment in time to go home for Christmas of 2022. “She was super excited to open gifts and be showered with love,” said her mom, Arearn. “To just be around family, be able to kind of unwind and be at home, that was a good feeling for her.” Kenadie returns to St. Jude for checkups.

St. Jude patient Stories: Kiki

Everywhere Keatan, “Kiki,” goes, her four-legged friend, Asher Lux, is sure to follow. Asher Lux is Kiki’s service dog who is trained to detect changes in her heart rate and notify her when she is about to have a headache or seizure. The English Cream Golden Retriever is still fine-tuning his skills but already has been an immense help to his charge as she goes about her routines, which include medical appointments, home school and dance class. “From the start, his focus was on her, and we truly believe he already knew he was meant for her and what his job was,” said Kiki’s mom, Jenna. The idea for a service dog was sparked at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® where Kiki is a patient and where she has been visited by therapy dogs. At 10 years old, Kiki was diagnosed with brain stem glioma after struggling with severe headaches and suffering a seizure where she lost consciousness. Soon after, she developed hydrocephalus and had to undergo emergency brain surgery in her home state of North Carolina. She was then referred to St. Jude and received treatment. “Walking through those doors the first time is a feeling that is so hard to explain. You are terrified, your heart is breaking in pieces as you hold your child’s hand, and yet in those moments and all that come after, it is like someone is reaching out and wrapping you into a hug. Letting you know it will all be OK. They’ve got you,” Kiki’s mom Jenna said of St. Jude. Kiki is home now but returns to St. Jude every few months for checkups and continues treatment for seizures and headaches, her mom said. “I am forever thankful for St. Jude. I feel safe and understood there,” Kiki said.