Recently, a story about our team was featured on the front page of the Athens Banner Herald!

Read it here: https://www.onlineathens.com/news/20190226/athens-teen-raises-money-for-cancer-research-in-memory-of-stepfather 

Hello all!

Our silent auction is open for four more days! Go visit it at https://www.biddingowl.com/Auction/index.cfm?auctionID=17303. 

Items include a European Facial, a Starbucks Giftcard, a Wyoming Foodie Giftbasket, a number of art pieces, and more! 

Please visit the page and make a bid to support a good cause!

Heirloom Benefit Night!

Thanks to everyone who came to our benefit night at Heirloom Cafe and Fresh Market on February 21! We really enjoyed the night and we hope you did too. We'd also like to thank everyone at Heirloom for joining us in The Good Fight and making this night possible.

Above: From left to right, Kira Avolio, Clara Miller, and Kasey Ehrenreich enjoy dinner at Heirloom while supporting a great cause!

Where you unable to make it to the benefit night? Don't worry! Heirloom will be donating a portion of all highball cocktail sales through February.

Do you or someone you know own a local business that would be interested in partnering with us? Email us at thegoodfight.athga@gmail.com.

The Good Fight is honored to participate in the 2019 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. We are proud to be raising critical dollars in honor of those battling 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(s) 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.

Below, our candidate, Clara Miller, with her father during his battle with Acute Myeloid Leukemia.

We really are changing the face of blood cancer!

You might be wondering why we're called The Good Fight. Our candidate’s father fought AML, or Acute Myeloid Leukemia, for three and a half years. Throughout his battle with Leukemia, he always told his family “We’ll fight the good fight, and if we lose, we’ll go down swinging.” He ultimately passed away after three relapses, but nevertheless, this inspired our candidate, Clara Miller, to name her team “The Good Fight" in honor of him. 

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.

We are proud to say that our team is made up of a group of dedicated students in the Athens area. They are Clara Miller, Danielle Norris, Hayden Wood, Kira Avolio, Chip Scott, Kasey Ehrenreich, Lizzie Walker, Rob Sullivan, and Ingrid Nilson.

All of us have been impacted by cancer in some way. That's why we've joined The Good Fight, and we hope you will too.

Above, our team member , Kira Avolio, with her Uncle Henry, who passed away from Leukemia.

Please visit our website often and bring friends who would also like to donate!

Follow us on Instagram @thegoodfight.athga to stay updated, and like our Facebook Page, The Good Fight Athens.

Contact us at thegoodfight.athga@gmail.com.

On behalf of blood cancer patients everywhere, thank you for your support!

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