Hello everyone, my name is Gigi Nardo. I am currently an eleventh-grade student at Hershey High School, and I am honored to say that I am a candidate for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) Student of the Year campaign of 2020. Students of the Year is a philanthropic leadership development program for exemplary high school students. Each year Students of the Year candidates form teams made up of friends, family and colleagues to compete in their local community for the title of Students of the Year.  

My team’s motto is “One for a Cure” because if everyone donated then together we as a nation are one step closer to finding a cure to end cancer & save lives!  I'm asking you to help by making a tax-deductible contribution.  Every contribution, small or large matters! One extra dollar could be that little bit needed to find the cure!  We need to take action, and I know that as we come together and partner with LLS we will find a cure, not someday, but today!

Please donate to make a difference in this world, so you can be part of the cure for cancer.  The donation is also tax deductible. Your donation could prevent someone from losing a child, sibling, parent or loved one, and allow LLS to continue funding lifesaving research.

Please reach out to others you know and ask them to contribute as well.

I am honored to participate as a team member for the 2020 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 proud to support my candidate and 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 that raises the most money at the end of the seven weeks is named Student of the Year. Our 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, thank you for your support!

For more information about LLS, please visit www.lls.org.