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365 days of dedication to

endingchildhood cancer

and otherlife-threatening

diseases.

For everythingthat you have accomplishedfor St. Jude,

we want to say

ST. JUDE PATIENT GYLE, AGE 5

THANK YOU

ST. JUDE PATIENT HAYDEN, AGE 4, BRAIN TUMOR

YOUR PARTNERSHIPMAKES A DIFFERENCEThis year marks the 25th anniversary of Averitt’s commitment to the lifesaving work of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®. Your partnership allows us to remain at the forefront of the global effort to research, treat and defeat childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases.

Your support helps us keep our promise to our patients and their families – that no family will ever receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food. All they should worry about is helping their child live.

YOUR SUPPORT SINCE 1987

Revenue reported as of February 2016

$5,387,000

A. An Averitt associate helps a St. Jude patient with a craft activity.

B. Associates’ families support St. Jude at the annual softball tournament.

C. Your team connected on a personal, individual level with St. Jude patients.

You displayed your dedication to saving the lives of kids at St. Jude through Averitt Cares for Kids. Through this remarkable program, you presented a $500,000 donation to St. Jude, an increase of $50,000 over last year.

The funds were collected from Averitt associate contributions, most of which were $1 weekly payroll deductions, with 81 percent of your associates giving weekly to St. Jude. This shared dedication proves your long-standing commitment to the research and care of children who suffer from childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases.

At your Averitt Annual Softball Tournament, St. Jude spoke to your associates and their families about our appreciation for your partnership. It was truly our pleasure to be with your group.

Your desire to connect on a personal level with St. Jude patients was reflected in a group of Averitt associates visiting the St. Jude campus. Not only did you tour the hospital and present St. Jude with the $500,000 donation, but you also brought fun to the patients at St. Jude by organizing and conducting winter wonderland- themed activities, which included helping the kids design a snowman and decorate snowflake cookies.

Your support helps lift the spirits of the kids of St. Jude as we pursue our ambitious, lifesaving mission. We look forward to watching our partnership flourish as we work together to change the course of childhood cancer. Averitt continues to be a critical part of our progress.

Executives and employees visited the St. Jude campus.

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ST. JUDE CHILDREN’S RESEARCH

HOSPITAL IS LEADING THE WAY

THE WORLD UNDERSTANDS,

TREATS AND DEFEATS

CHILDHOOD CANCER AND OTHER

LIFE-THREATENING DISEASES.

AS A WORLD-CLASS CHILDREN’S

HOSPITAL, CUTTING-EDGE

RESEARCH INSTITUTION AND

RESPECTED CHARITY, WE ARE

DEDICATED TO ONE GOAL:

FINDING CURES. SAVING CHILDREN.®

ST. JUDE PATIENT SAGR, AGE 8, EWING SARCOMA

THANK YOUFOR ALLYOU DOTO HELPST. JUDE

CHILDREN’S RESEARCH HOSPITAL.

A great HOSPITAL

Everyone at St. Jude is committed to providing the absolute best in patient care to the children who walk through our doors. We put every child and his or her family at the center of our efforts to fight the diseases that threaten young lives. Even before a family arrives at the hospital, a dedicated team is preparing to not only treat their child, but also support them during one of the toughest times that families ever face.

As innovators in patient care, we are by their side at every step, through every decision, providing a seamless network of support for our patients and their families. And the cost of this exceptional care is never a burden: No family ever receives a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food – because all a family should worry about is helping their child live.

And we want the kids of St. Jude to thrive – even while undergoing treatment. They are not just a patient, not just a medical chart number. They are children and teens with hopes and dreams and wishes, and so we celebrate their lives and milestones every day. We cheer them on as they master new school work, walk the red carpet at the St. Jude teen formal and dress up to go trick-or-treating throughout the hospital at Halloween.

We don’t stop there. We follow our patients’ progress after treatment ends, through the largest long-term follow-up clinic for childhood cancer patients in the country. We care about how their treatment affects their lives as adults, and so we are leading one of the country’s most ambitious studies of childhood cancer survivors.

We are committed to providing the very best patient care – because we want the very best for the kids of St. Jude.

ST. JUDE PATIENTS GAYATRI, AGE 7, ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIAAND ALAINA, AGE 11, HEMOPHAGOCYTIC LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS

ST. JUDE TREATS

PATIENTS FROM ALL

50 states AND AROUND

THE WORLD.

&2014 2015HEALTH NON-PROFITBRAND OF THE YEAR

(HARRIS POLL)

TREATMENTS

INVENTED AT ST. JUDE

HAVE HELPED PUSH

THE OVERALL

CHILDHOOD SURVIVAL

RATE FROM 20 PERCENT

WHEN THE HOSPITAL

OPENED IN 1962

TO MORE THAN

80 PERCENT TODAY.

BUT THAT IS NOT

GOOD ENOUGH –

NOT WHEN

CHILDREN DIAGNOSED

WITH CANCER WILL

NOT SURVIVE.

THAT’S WHY ST. JUDE

WILL NEVER STOP

UNTIL NO CHILD DIES

FROM CANCER.

WE FREELY SHARE

OUR RESEARCH

AND TREATMENT

DISCOVERIES.

WE WANT DOCTORS

AND SCIENTISTS

IN COMMUNITIES

EVERYWHERE –

IN COUNTRIES

EVERYWHERE –

TO BE ABLE TO USE

THAT KNOWLEDGE TO

SAVE THE LIVES OF

MORE CHILDREN.

ST. JUDE CREATES

moreCLINICAL TRIALS

FOR CANCER

THAN ANY OTHER

CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL.

ST. JUDE SHARED OUR

GROUNDBREAKING

RESEARCH RESULTS

IN MORE THAN

830 articles PUBLISHED IN 2015.

A great RESEARCH INSTITUTION

When St. Jude opened in 1962, cancer was a virtual death sentence for children – only 20 percent survived. In the case of acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the most common form of childhood cancer, the survival rate was a grim 4 percent. St. Jude tackled those somber statistics head on and forever changed the fates of children diagnosed with cancer.

Today, treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall survival rate to more than 80 percent and, at St. Jude, the survival rate for acute lymphoblastic leukemia is now 94 percent, the highest in the nation.

Until survival rates for childhood cancer reach 100 percent and every child treated is able to lead a full, healthy life, St. Jude will continue its quest for cures. We are constantly working at the leading edge of science to discover better ways to diagnose and treat childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases such as sickle cell disease. At St. Jude, we seek both cures and ways to prevent these diseases.

And we freely share our discoveries so that doctors and scientists around the world can use this knowledge to save thousands more children. Our laboratories may not be in every community, but our discoveries are.

ST. JUDE PATIENT TYLER, AGE 8, ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA

INTERNATIONAL outreach PROGRAM

Every year, about 175,000 cases of cancer will be diagnosed in children around the world. And 60 percent of them will not have access to adequate diagnosis and treatment.

Our International Outreach Program was created to help improve survival rates for children with cancer and other life-threatening diseases around the globe. Through the development of partner sites and regional networks, and our innovative cure4kids.org website, we are working with health care professionals across the globe to help erase treatment disparities and improve care for children.

ST. JUDE PATIENT ANGELICA, AGE 5, ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA

32,000

24partner sites in

17countries.

THE ST. JUDE

INTERNATIONAL

OUTREACH

PROGRAM HAS

CURE4KIDS.ORG

REGULAR USERS

FROM MORE THAN

160 COUNTRIES.

OF SPANISH-SPEAKING

AMERICANS HAVE

A FAVORABLE

IMPRESSION OF

ST. JUDE; THE

HIGHEST RANKING

COMPARED TO SELECT

SISTER CHARITIES.*

*2015 Brand Research Pulse Check, Socratic Technologies

%84

A great CHARITY

ST. JUDE PATIENT JORDYN, AGE 9, ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA

4 OUT OF 5 AMERICANS

RECOGNIZE THE

ST. JUDE BRAND.

2xST. JUDE DONORS

ARE UP TO

%

MORE LIKELY TO

SHOP BRANDS

THAT HAVE BEEN

PARTICULARLY VOCAL

IN THEIR SUPPORT

OF A CAUSE.

9 MILLIONACTIVE DONORS.

ST. JUDE HAS

There are great children’s hospitals. There are great research institutions. There are great charities. St. Jude is all three.

St. Jude won’t stop looking for cures for childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. St. Jude will share its research with the world so that children everywhere can benefit from these discoveries. And families will never pay St. Jude for anything. We cover the cost of treatment, travel, housing and food so that all a family has to worry about is helping their child live.

Unlike any other hospital, the majority of funding for St. Jude comes from generous donors. Thanks to people like you who support St. Jude, we have the freedom to focus on what matters most – saving kids regardless of their financial situation.

Your dedication to our mission comes alive in the 31,000 activities held throughout the country to raise funds and awareness for St. Jude.

Your commitment means St. Jude doctors and scientists can continue their search for cures and the best treatment for desperately ill children. Your help means no family ever receives a bill from St. Jude – for anything.

Your generosity and support makes this possible. Thank you for being part of our mission.

These words celebrate the spirit of our partnership – a much-valued relationship that has an immense impact on the lives of everyone served by the lifesaving work of St. Jude.

Together – with your ongoing generous support – we can continue to work toward one incredible goal: Finding cures. Saving children.®

A look at our successful partnership· Clear, aligned philanthropic focus

· Key executive champion drives partnership

· Galvanized employees committed to the cause

· Fully integrated marketing approach (advertising, direct mail, PR)

· Deep customer engagement (in-store, online)

· Sponsorship and event integration

TRUST. COMMITMENT. DEDICATION. PASSION.

IN THE ANNUAL HARRIS POLL

OF OVER 38,000 CONSUMERS

& MORE THAN 1,400 BRANDS.

QUALITY RANKING#

highestFAVORABILITY OF ALL MAJOR

CHARITIES AND HOSPITALS

TO OPERATE

ST. JUDE IN 2016.

IT WILL COST

MORE THAN

1$ BILLION

OF THE FUNDS NECESSARY

TO OPERATE ST. JUDE

MUST BE RAISED

BY PRIVATE DONATIONS.

MORE THAN

75%

thankyou!