Posted on 09/16/2020 11:56:14 AM PDT by rktman
Dominos Pizza donated $110 million to St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital, making it the largest donation the hospital has seen in its history.
Dominos and its franchisees have pledged to raise the money over the next ten years.
The money will go towards 140 apartments St. Jude is developing on its Memphis campus for families of children who are receiving treatment, and the facility will be called The Dominos Village to honor the companys gift, WATE reported.
The Dominos Village will provide a home-away-from-home for the thousands of kids and families who come to St. Jude from around the world, said Richard Shadyac, president and CEO of ALSAC, the fundraising arm of St. Jude. They will forever be transformed by the generosity of Dominos in their greatest time of need.
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St Jude is an incredible hospital, its a wonderful donation.
Too bad she’s married to @$$hole Phil Donahue!
In 1987 he received the “Maggie” Award, highest honor of the Planned Parenthood Federation, in tribute to their founder, Margaret_Sanger.
In June 2013, Donahue and numerous other celebrities appeared in a video showing support for Chelsea Manning.
Never knew that. But doesn’t take away from her.
DON JR RAISES MILLIONS FOR ST JUDE’S YEARLY. IS THIS A 1 TIME TAX WRITE OFF?
ST JUDE’S is 1 of our yearly charities. We got to old to work the Marathon.
“towards”. Makes it sound like the $100 million won’t even cover it all?
Oh FGS. Its good pizza. And Dominos was the first I ever experienced putting bacon on pizza. That was a revelation!
They have GREAT Parmesan bites! Fantastic!
Just seems like a crazy number. Every apartment is $786K?
I am sure there are plenty of internal facilities and infrastructure (that are NOT “apartments”)... like a cafeteria and the food prep gear, an admin area, janitorial, HVAC, etc; etc;...and maybe the building(s) have to be built to hospital standards, which are far beyond residential-apartment standards.
It’s surely a bigger number than I am used to dealing with; but if the apts are 1K sq feet each (140K sq ft) and the cafeteria/kitchen is say 6K sq ft and admin is 3K sq ft and mechanicals are 3K sq ft and hallways are 6K and it has to be built to hospital standards @ $1K/sq ft you’re talking $170 MM to build, plus buying the land.
All said and done, it could well cost nearly $200MM to build and build out.
Looks like Debra Messing.
Free ethnic realignment surgery for woke white children?
“Looks like Debra Messing.”
Yep and there is a post on here today about her calling Trump a ped!
So, they didn’t really donate that amount, they just pledged to raise and THEN give that amount....
Yeah - add in a Cafeteria (rec halls, gym??) etc. it all starts to add up. It is great that the “evil capitalists” step up.
In disasters they step up too. Like that huge earthquake and tsunami in SE Asia that one Christmas. The USA government chipped in a lot of money and resources to help. But individual US folks donated something crazy like 10x more!
Why look for something “objectionable” as a knee-jerk reaction to something really good?
IO thought it was the Left that saw something good and had the obsession to loo back through history (the same history they try to destroy) to see if there was ever a tort they could sink their teeth into.
We don’t eat Domino’s very often - been several years since last time - but will probably use their good works as a reason to make our own donation.
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