We recently attended and supported an amazing cause at California State University of Long Beach called Up ‘til Dawn. This is a student organization that raises money for the children at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. This organization works hard all year to put on one large and exciting event for the student population. This year the event was hosted at CSULB on March 12, 2009. Up ‘til Dawn made history on their campus by hosting the first all night event in the Student Union. The entertaining night consisted of DJs, local bands, balloon artists, a bounce house, food vendors, fashion vendors and most importantly letter writing. There were over 300 students that came to address prewritten donation request letters to their family and friends. Up ‘til Dawn raised about $1,500 just at the door on registration fees. The donations being brought in by the student’s letters is still rolling in day by day, and as of today the total is $10,254.

We have been involved with Up ‘til Dawn since September of 2008. We had a booth at the overnight event where students were able to ask questions and find out more about our service. We also donated 5 free memberships to the raffle that students could enter at the event. Lance also helped create an awesome film that was shown at the event highlighting students true life connections to St. Jude and educating the campus about St. Jude and their mission!