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16th Annual Joshua's Wish 5K Run/Walk & Kids Fun Run is on Saturday, September 20, 2025
Get in touch with us at joshuaswish@yahoo.com
Making the Wish for a Cure a Reality

OUR DONATIONS

September 2024
Joshua’s Wish donates $25,000 to Dr. Amar Gajjar's brain tumor research program at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Christopher Beck, Senior Philanthropic Advisor at ALSAC/St. Jude, was on hand to accept the donation.

March 2023
Joshua’s Wish donates $20,000 to Dr. Amar Gajjar's brain tumor research program at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

2022
Joshua’s Wish donates $25,000 to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital for Pediatric Brain Tumor Research. Read this Thank Letter from Dr. Amar Gajjar!

2021
Joshua’s Wish donates $20,000 to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital for Pediatric Brain Tumor Research.

2020
Joshua’s Wish donates $25,000 to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital for Pediatric Brain Tumor Research.

2019
Joshua’s Wish donates $20,500 to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital for Pediatric Brain Tumor Research.

March 2018
Joshua’s Wish donates $20,000 to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital for Pediatric Brain Tumor Research.

November 2017
Joshua’s Wish donates $5,000 to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta for Pediatric Brain Tumor Research.

April 2016
Joshua’s Wish donates $18,000 to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital for Pediatric Brain Tumor Research.

March 2016
Joshua’s Wish donates $16,000 to Dr. Amat Gajjar brain tumor program at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

March 2015
Joshua's Wish donates $15,000.00 to the brain tumor program at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Dr. Amar Gajjar Director of Neuro-Oncology department at St. Jude presents check on behalf of Joshua's Wish.
Dr. Amar Gajjar Director of Neuro-Oncology department at St. Jude presents check on behalf of Joshua's Wish.

May 2014
Joshua's Wish is proud to present its first $5,000 Summer Undergraduate Research Award in DIPG to a Mercer University student! Congratulations to Rachel O'Keefe! Rachel will do her summer research at Cincinnati Children's under the supervision of Dr. Mariko DeWire, co-principal investigator for the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium, at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital this summer.
This is the first year Joshua’s Wish has presented its research award to a Mercer student. Past award-winners have come from institutions such as Duke University and the University of Ontario Institute of Technology.
This is the first year Joshua’s Wish has presented its research award to a Mercer student. Past award-winners have come from institutions such as Duke University and the University of Ontario Institute of Technology.
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