An Evening for the Children: Elite Household HR at the FedEx/St. Jude Angels & Stars Gala
When Elite Household HR supports the St. Jude gala in Miami, it is not philanthropy at arm’s length. It is personal — and it runs through blood. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital was founded by Danny Thomas, a Lebanese-American entertainer whose fundraising organization, ALSAC — the American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities — he created in 1957 to honor his Middle Eastern heritage and a single vow: that no child should die in the dawn of life. Our founder, Thalya Olmos, is Colombian-Lebanese. The heritage that built St. Jude is, quite literally, her own.
A Heritage That Runs Deeper Than a Donation
Most companies choose a cause. Ours chose us, generations ago. Danny Thomas built St. Jude on a Lebanese immigrant’s promise and a Middle Eastern conviction that a community protects its most vulnerable children — and named its charitable engine to carry that heritage forward in its very title. For a Colombian-Lebanese founder whose own family carries that same lineage, supporting St. Jude is not a campaign. It is a way of honoring where she comes from, in the most meaningful way she knows: by helping children live.
Miami’s Night for the Children
The FedEx/St. Jude Angels & Stars Gala is Miami’s own tribute to that mission. Co-founded in 2002 by model and entrepreneur Daisy Fuentes and held each year at the InterContinental Hotel in downtown Miami, the gala has grown into one of South Florida’s most beloved charitable evenings, raising millions for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. It is an evening of glamour in service of something profound: the children and families fighting childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases.
Why a Firm Built Around Families Gives to a Hospital for Families
There is a reason a household-staffing firm feels so at home in this cause. Everything we do is built around families — protecting them, supporting them, helping them thrive. St. Jude is built around families too, in the most extraordinary way: families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing, or food, so that all a family has to worry about is helping their child live. A firm devoted to family life and a hospital devoted to saving children’s lives are, at heart, moved by the same thing.
Showing Up for the Evening
Belief is easy to declare and harder to live. Our founder gives her time in support of the gala and the families it serves — standing alongside the volunteers, donors, and St. Jude families who make the evening what it is. It is a small way of returning something to a mission her own heritage helped set in motion more than half a century ago.
Family: The Thread Through Everything We Do
Look closely and the same thread runs through all of it — the placements we make, the causes we support, the heritage we carry. Family is the reason this firm exists, and the reason we give. It’s the standard behind every match at Elite Nannies Miami, and the spirit behind our support of the neurodiversity community and organizations like UM-NSU CARD. Caregivers who share that devotion to family can register with us.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the FedEx/St. Jude Angels & Stars Gala?
An annual Miami charitable event benefiting St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, co-founded in 2002 by Daisy Fuentes and held at the InterContinental Hotel in downtown Miami. Over the years it has raised millions for the hospital’s mission.
Why does Elite Household HR support St. Jude?
Because the cause is personal. St. Jude was founded by Danny Thomas, a Lebanese-American, through ALSAC — the American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities — and our founder is Colombian-Lebanese. Supporting St. Jude honors that shared heritage and our devotion to families.
Do families pay for care at St. Jude?
No. Families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing, or food — so that all a family has to worry about is helping their child live.
Family is the thread through everything we do.
If you’re seeking household staff placed by a firm that puts family first — in its work and its values — we’d welcome a confidential conversation. Begin a private inquiry with Elite Household HR.
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