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Stripes® Convenience Stores Announces Fourth
Annual In-Store Campaign and Alliance with
MD Anderson Children’s Cancer Hospital
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Dallas, TX – September 2018 / Newsmaker Alert / Stripes® Convenience Stores is kicking off its annual “Stripes Stores Celebrates Tomorrows” fundraising campaign to help kids with cancer celebrate tomorrow. Benefitting the University of Texas MD Anderson Children’s Cancer Hospital, the campaign coincides with Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month and runs Sept. 5-30. This is Stripes stores’ fourth year to sponsor the popular fund-raising effort that supports programs spanning research and quality of life.

Stripes customers can choose to donate by purchasing a $1 paper pin-up while checking out at participating stores*. To show its appreciation of their donation, Stripes is giving participating customers coupons for a free 16-ounce Café de la Casa coffee and a buy-one-get-one-free original breakfast taco from Laredo Taco Company with their donation
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Stripes® Convenience Stores Announces Fourth Annual In-Store Campaign and Alliance with MD Anderson Children's Cancer Hospital
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Since 2014, Stripes and its customers have raised more than $4 million for MD Anderson Children’s Cancer Hospital. All of the funds raised in this year’s campaign will help save children’s lives by: providing safer, more effective treatments; keeping pediatric cancer patients in school during treatments; and funding quality-of-life programs like the recently developed Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology Center.

“Pediatric cancer is extremely underfunded, and by collaborating with MD Anderson and our customers, we can help make the lives of young patients and their families a little easier and offer hope through emerging treatments,” said Greg Kirian, Stripes Stores director of marketing. “Stripes Stores Celebrates Tomorrows was MD Anderson’s first in-store, paper pin-up campaign, and we are grateful to our customers who have shown incredible generosity in past years. We hope our customers will continue supporting this effort to help children with cancer.” “With Stripes’ continued support and the strength and resilience of our patients and their families, I am confident cancer doesn’t stand a chance,” said Richard Gorlick, M.D., division head and department chair, MD Anderson Children’s Cancer Hospital. “Cancer is the No. 1 one cause of death from disease in children, and currently only 3 percent of funding goes into pediatric cancer research. Stripes’ campaign will help fill a large gap of what’s needed to treat young patients.”

*excluding West Texas stores

About Stripes Convenience Stores
Stripes Convenience Stores operates more than 525 convenience stores in Texas and Louisiana. Food offerings are available in over 450 of its stores, primarily under the proprietary Laredo Taco Company™ brand. Stripes is owned by 7-Eleven, Inc. (“7-Eleven”), the largest chain in the convenience-retailing industry. Based in Irving, Texas, 7-Eleven operates, franchises and/or licenses more than 66,000 stores in 17 countries, including 11,600 in North America. For more information about Stripes Convenience Stores visit www.StripesStores.com.

About MD Anderson
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston ranks as one of the world’s most respected centers focused on cancer patient care, research, education and prevention. The institution’s sole mission is to end cancer for patients and their families around the world. MD Anderson is one of only 49 comprehensive cancer centers designated by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). MD Anderson is ranked No.1 for cancer care in U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Hospitals” survey. It has ranked as one of the nation’s top two hospitals for cancer care since the survey began in 1990, and has ranked first 14 times in the last 17 years. MD Anderson receives a cancer center support grant from the NCI of the National Institutes of Health (P30 CA016672).

Media Contact:
Jessica Davila-Burnett
361-290-3257
JDB Public Relations

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Publishing Dates: 09/06/18 – 11/06/18
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