Student Contributor -M. Clure
This organization is a non-profit organization hospital. They accept donations and charities but they never charge their patients for their care. They focus mainly on child health when it comes to catastrophic diseases and cancers.
St. Jude’s is a research hospital, that focuses on pediatric treatment for major diseases such as leukemia and other cancers. The hospital costs nearly 3 million dollars a day to run, but they never charge patients for their care. They are more focused on helping the patients rather than collecting their money at a time in need.
You can fundraise, get involved, donate or volunteer at this organization. They have lots of ways you can raise money for the organization such as, video game streaming, at your job, through fitness activities, and many other ways you can help.
Teachers and their students can easily partner with the “Cards for Hospitalized Kids” organization. Teachers can help students write and create encouraging cards for the numerous hospitalized children around the world. Once the students write these cards, the teacher can mail them to the “Card for Hospitalized Kids” address. This organization provides personal stories from card recipients. Therefore, when partnering with this organization, teachers can show these stories to their students. This helps students conceptualize what they are doing and understand that their cards are being sent to real children that are just like them.
I provided a service with a 7th-grade class and we made friendship bracelets for children who are sick and admitted to Seattle Children's Hospital in Seattle Washington. Making these friendship bracelets provided the service of lifting up children's spirits who are in the hospital. When children are admitted to the hospital, they do not get to see their friends. So, making bracelets for them is letting them know other children think about them, care about them, and are rooting for them. 
Teachers and students could partner with this organization to make a difference in a couple different ways. The one that I had experience with was delivering letters to the nurses from students, that was thanking them for all their hard work through covid and everyday what they go through.
Teachers and students could partner with Shriners in so many different ways. One way that is super fun and meaningful for both the students participating and the patients receiving, is making friendship bracelets. This brings out a little bit of creativity in the students and would brighten the day of any child to receive it. Who doesn’t love receiving something as special as a friendship bracelet? There are so many art projects that students could do and donate to the hospital; the list is endless.