The candidates Taylor Smith and Kendall Ferguson have truly inspiring stories behind why they chose to join the Students of the Year Campaign.

Taylor: We have all been affected by cancer in one way or another. For me, it was finding out my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was in 2nd grade. After losing her two years later, I’ve decided that I want to join this fight so other families can spare the pain and grief mine went through. Getting to our goal of $100k would mean the absolute most to me. Thank you for considering us and our fight to end cancer!

Kendall: My personal connection to LLS also involves my mom. My mom was diagnosed with Lymphoma in 2016; and underwent a year of chemotherapy and surgery. That year was the hardest year of my life and every since then I have devoted myself to help fight against cancer. This campaign means so much to me because it is not only helping patients just like my mom but the family members too who are dealing with the effects of this terrible disease. Thank you for your support it means more than you know!

Thank you for visiting my fundraising page, welcome!

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