Hi everyone!! My name is Jonathan Ferrell and I have been nominated to represent Round Rock High School for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Student of the Year campaign!!! If you don’t already know, The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society is the largest nonprofit dedicated to creating a world without blood cancers. As a nominee and as well as someone who has had to deal with cancer from a young age, I’m honored to be apart of this mission and give back to the community by raising funds for blood cancer patients.  I am honoring those who have battled cancers and raising money that will go directly to LLS in support of its longstanding mission to find a cure and improve the quality of life of patients and their families. Cancer research of any kind helps ALL cancers. Since both my parents have had to fight cancer, this is a very personal mission for me. I know how devastating cancer can be and I want to help find a cure! Thanks to the advancements in cancer research, my parents are still alive today. I need your help to reach my goal of $50000. You are able to help me by making monetary donations using this link, https://events.lls.org/ctx/austinsoy21/jferrell, you can help spread the word out on social media by sharing my story as well as my link, you can show up to a future event in support of my campaign, you can donate a raffle item for the end of the campaign, and you can email me at jonathanferrell512@icloud.com to discuss any further options you might have. I’m open to anything you have to offer! Thank you so much for your time and I hope that we can go along this mission together and get one step closer to making this crazy world we live in one without blood cancer.

I am honored to participate as a team member for the 2021 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.