MEMPHIS, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct 29, 2025--
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital ® has been named the most trusted nonprofit in Morning Consult’s annual Most Trusted Nonprofits report for the fourth year in a row, this year earning the highest trust ranking across all demographic segments surveyed. St. Jude also achieved the highest reputation score of all 3,000 for-profit and nonprofit brands in the U.S. studied by Morning Consult.
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The Morning Consult report, the definitive guide on which nonprofit organizations have earned Americans’ confidence based on daily tracking across key audiences, concludes the St. Jude reputation is unparalleled. The reputation score combines measures of trustworthiness, ethics, social responsibility, relevance, and stakeholder value.
“Being named the most trusted nonprofit for the fourth year in a row is a profound honor and a testament to the unwavering belief our supporters have in the St. Jude mission,” said Ike Anand, president and CEO of ALSAC, the fundraising and awareness organization for St. Jude. “This trust empowers us to pursue bold goals — from accelerating research to expanding global access to care — all in effort to improve childhood cancer survival and help make lifesaving treatments available to more children in more places and ensure families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing, or food. We are deeply grateful and remain committed to earning this trust every day.”
“This recognition reflects the deep and lasting connection people have with the mission of St. Jude: Finding cures. Saving children.,” said Samantha Maltin, chief marketing and brand officer for ALSAC. “Trust is the foundation of everything we do, and it’s built through decades of scientific breakthroughs, compassionate care and the generosity of millions who believe in our work.”
The recognition follows a series of accolades for St. Jude in brand strength and purpose. Earlier this year, YouGov named St. Jude one of the top 10 best brands in the United States — the only nonprofit on the list and the brand with the highest reputation score. In 2023, Fast Company included St. Jude in its Brands That Matter list, which honors organizations that communicate and live their purpose.
Treatments developed at St. Jude have helped increase the survival rate for children with cancer in the United States from 20% to more than 80%. Globally, however, survival rates remain much lower, with only one in five children surviving cancer in many countries. St. Jude is committed to ensuring that no child dies from cancer, no matter where they live.
For philanthropists and impact-driven investors seeking to align their giving with measurable outcomes and enduring trust, St. Jude offers a unique opportunity to advance global health equity and scientific innovation — all while ensuring families never receive a bill for care.
To learn more or support the mission, visit stjude.org.
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital ®
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Its purpose is clear: Finding cures. Saving children. ® It is the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center devoted solely to children. When St. Jude opened in 1962, childhood cancer was largely considered incurable. Since then, St. Jude has helped push the overall survival rate from 20% to more than 80% in the United States, and it won't stop until no child dies from cancer. St. Jude shares the breakthroughs it makes to help doctors and researchers at local hospitals and cancer centers around the world improve the quality of treatment and care for even more children. Because of generous donors, families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food, so they can focus on helping their child live. Visit St. Jude Inspire to discover powerful St. Jude stories of hope, strength, love and kindness. Support the St. Jude mission by donating at stjude.org, liking St. Jude on Facebook, following St. Jude on X, Instagram, LinkedIn and TikTok, and subscribing to its YouTube channel.
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado comes to the White House on Thursday to discuss her country's future with President Donald Trump even after he publicly dismissed her credibility to take over after an audacious U.S. military raid captured then-President Nicolás Maduro.
Trump has raised doubts about his stated commitment to backing democratic rule in Venezuela. His administration has signaled its willingness to work with acting President Delcy Rodríguez, who was Maduro’s vice president and, along with others in the deposed leader’s inner circle, remains in charge of day-to-day governmental operations.
In endorsing Rodríguez so far, Trump has sidelined Machado, who has long been a face of resistance in Venezuela and sought to cultivate relationships with Trump and key administration voices like Secretary of State Marco Rubio among the American right wing in a gamble to ally herself with the U.S. government.
The White House says Machado sought the face-to-face meeting with Trump without setting expectations for what would occur. Her party is widely believed to have won 2024 elections rejected by Maduro. Machado previously offered to share with Trump the Nobel Peace Prize she won last year, an honor he has coveted.
Machado plans to have a meeting at the Senate following her lunch with Trump, who has called her “a nice woman” while indicating they might not touch on major issues in their talks Thursday.
Her Washington swing began after U.S. forces in the Caribbean Sea seized another sanctioned oil tanker that the Trump administration says had ties to Venezuela. It is part of a broader U.S. effort to take control of the South American country’s oil after U.S. forces seized Maduro and his wife at a heavily guarded compound in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas and brought them to New York to stand trial on drug trafficking charges.
The White House says Venezuela has been fully cooperating with the Trump administration since Maduro’s ouster.
Rodríguez, the acting president, herself has adopted a less strident position toward Trump and his “America First” policies toward the Western Hemisphere, saying she plans to continue releasing prisoners detained under Maduro — a move thought to have been made at the behest of the Trump administration. Venezuela released several Americans this week.
Trump, a Republican, said Wednesday that he had a “great conversation” with Rodríguez, their first since Maduro was ousted.
“We had a call, a long call. We discussed a lot of things,” Trump said during an Oval Office bill signing. “And I think we’re getting along very well with Venezuela.”
Even before indicating the willingness to work with Venezuela's interim government, Trump was quick to snub Machado. Just hours after Maduro's capture, Trump said of Machado that “it would be very tough for her to be the leader. She doesn’t have the support within or the respect within the country.”
Machado has steered a careful course to avoid offending Trump, notably after winning last year’s Nobel Peace Prize, which Trump wanted to win himself. She has since thanked Trump. Her offer to share the peace prize with him was rejected by the Nobel Institute.
Machado’s whereabouts have been largely unknown since she went into hiding early last year after being briefly detained in Caracas. She briefly reappeared in Oslo, Norway, in December after her daughter received the Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf.
The industrial engineer and daughter of a steel magnate began challenging the ruling party in 2004, when the nongovernmental organization she co-founded, Súmate, promoted a referendum to recall then-President Hugo Chávez. The initiative failed, and Machado and other Súmate executives were charged with conspiracy.
A year later, she drew the anger of Chávez and his allies again for traveling to Washington to meet President George W. Bush. A photo showing her shaking hands with Bush in the Oval Office lives in the collective memory. Chávez considered Bush an adversary.
Almost two decades later, she marshaled millions of Venezuelans to reject Chávez’s successor, Maduro, for another term in the 2024 election. But ruling party-loyal electoral authorities declared him the winner despite ample credible evidence to the contrary. Ensuing anti-government protests ended in a brutal crackdown by state security forces.
Garcia Cano reported from Caracas, Venezuela, and Janetsky from Mexico City. AP Diplomatic Writer Matthew Lee in Washington contributed to this report.
FILE - U.S. President George Bush, right, meets with Maria Corina Machado, executive director of Sumate, a non-governmental organization that defends Venezuelan citizens' political rights, in the Oval Office of the White House, Washington, May 31, 2005. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
FILE - Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado gestures to supporters during a protest against President Nicolas Maduro the day before his inauguration for a third term, in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, file)
