Thank you for visiting my fundraising page, welcome!

My name is Jayson Kaay.  I am currently a sophomore attending Torrance High School in Torrance, California.  My friend Trevor Lee has been nominated as one of the candidates for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Students of the Year Campaign.  I am one of the many people who have been asked to join his team, Buckets Against Cancer, and am participating in the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) Students of the Year Challenge (SOY).  The SOY program is a philanthropic leadership development program for high school students in the greater Los Angeles area.  As a team, our goal is to fundraise $50,000 to help LLS fund groundbreaking research to help cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease, and myeloma, as well as improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

I am participating in this campaign not only to help support Trevor, but also because of my younger cousin, Jordan.  Earlier this year, my 11 year old cousin was diagnosed with a rare form of acute myeloid leukemia also known as APML.  To this day, he is still going through different rounds of treatment and luckily everything is going as planned.  This impacted me personally  because I was able to experience what many families go through when hearing about this type of news.  After going through all of this, I knew I wanted to make a difference for this cause.  

I encourage you to join me in supporting The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) by making a donation to my fundraising campaign. By donating to LLS, you support the many facets of LLS’s mission work from investing in groundbreaking research, providing education and support to patients, and advocating at the state and federal level for legislation to help those living with cancer. My appreciation for your support cannot be overstated — each and every dollar donated to LLS brings us closer to our goal to end blood cancer and makes an impact for cancer patients and their families.

As a global leader in the fight to end cancer, LLS is committed to doing more for blood cancer patients and families than any organization in the world. LLS’s signature fundraising campaigns drive critical support for its mission, including a nearly $1.3 billion investment in cutting edge cancer research worldwide since it was founded in 1949. Since the 1960s, survival rates for many blood cancer patients have doubled, tripled, or even quadrupled.

Every facet of LLS’s mission – research, education and support, and policy and advocacy – work in harmony to put blood cancer patients and their families first. LLS has helped millions impacted by cancer throughout its more than 70-year history, even funding breakthrough blood cancer research to advance lifesaving treatments and cures that is now helping patients with other cancers and diseases. That is why at LLS we say that beating cancer is in our blood.

Please visit my website as often as you can and share it with everyone you know who would also like to join us in the fight against cancer. Together, we have the power, the passion and the resolve to achieve a world without blood cancer. All donations are tax-deductible.

On behalf of cancer patients and their families everywhere, I sincerely thank you for your support!

For more information about LLS, please visit lls.org