National Capital Area Students of the Year
Eric Mitchell | Team Prep
Welcome to Eric Mitchell's SOY Fundraising Page!
Jan 16, 2018
Team Prep:
Patrick Jaeger (Candidate)
Welcome To My Fundraising Page.
I am honored to have been accepted as a candidate in the 2018 Students of the Year program, a seven-week initiative in which select high school students from around the country participate in a fundraising competition to benefit The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
I am raising critical dollars in honor of a young patient hero who is currently battling or is in remission from a blood cancer. Each dollar is a vote. The candidate team who raises the most money at the end of the seven weeks is named Student of the Year. My mission is to not only raise the most money but also to bring attention to blood cancers like leukemia, which is the most common form of cancer in children and teens.
Since the early 1960s, five-year survival rates for many blood cancer patients have doubled, tripled or even quadrupled. And many LLS supported therapies not only help blood cancer patients but are helping patients with other cancers and serious diseases. In fact, drugs first approved for blood cancers are now approved to treat patients with stomach cancers, skin cancers, and autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis.
We really are changing the face of blood cancer!
All donations are greatly appreciated and are tax deductible. They'll not only support LLS-funded research but will help provide critical information and support for patients, and support advocacy for laws to ensure patients can access the care and treatments they need.
Please visit our website often and bring friends who would also like to donate!
On behalf of blood cancer patients everywhere I thank you for your support!
For more information about LLS, please visit www.lls.org
9 Comments
Chip Baldwin
thank you. Chip Baldwin class of 1974 - current Lymphoma patient
Larry Allen
I am dedicating this to my daughter who is a Lymphoma survivor.
John Conley
Prep!
Anonymous
Honoring the memory of my father. He had chronic lymphocytic leukemia with which he lived for many years. He died in 2010, three weeks short of 107 years of age. The CLL ,however, never required treatment, but required recurring evaluation.
William Davin
Peter Davin referred me to this fundraising page. My donation is in memory of Peter's grandfather, who was taken by Leukemia.
Stefanie Waite
Good luck Eric! Great cause and perfect timing.
Michael Tarquinio
For a good cause.... The Tarquinios
Frank and Jean Clary
Happy to support such a worthy cause.
Tom and Colleen Jones
Go Team Prep. Proud of you all and keep up the great work! All the Prep teams from the past are rooting for you