This year’s funding marks the largest single-year total in the nonprofit’s 23-year history, including $1 million awarded to Cincinnati Children’s for the first time.
The surprise gift kicked off the annual Jersey Mike’s Month of Giving fundraiser. Donations throughout the month will support the battle against pediatric cancer.
On March 27, the more than 2,700 Jersey Mike’s Subs shops across the United States donated 100% of every dollar their customers spent that day to roughly 200 nonprofits and causes across the country.
CancerFree Kids received another record-breaking donation from local Jersey Mike’s Subs restaurants during their month of giving in March, which raised more than $278,000.
CancerFree KIDS said it granted $1.2 million to fund 21 research studies at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Avondale and Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus.