Welcome to my fundraising page!!

I would greatly appreciate your support through my journey in raising funds for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) by making a donation to my fundraising campaign. Why should you support LLS? Well, LLS's mission work spans from investigating groundbreaking research to providing education to patients as well as advocating for them at the state and federal level in order to allow legislation to be passed that helps them live. 

Once again, why should you donate to my LLS Student of the Year campaign? Well, your money will not only help find a cure for blood cancer, but it will also help in the field of finding a cure for cancer overall because the research that LLS funds help move groundbreaking research forward that can be used for many types of cancer. Need another reason, well approximately every three minutes someone in the United States is diagnosed with blood cancer. That means in, let's say two episodes of a TV show, twenty people, TWENTY PEOPLE, just like you and me, are diagnosed with blood cancer. During these same two episodes, about 6 people will die from blood cancer. Ok, one more. Leukemia is the second leading cause of death by cancer in children and adolescents under the age of twenty.

Blood cancer is serious and we need your help to find a cure.

My appreciation for your support can not be put into words. Every single dollar and every single cent brings us closer to our goal to end blood cancer. With this being said, every dollar and every cent also contributes to the positive impact that we can make on cancer patients and their family's lives.

Please visit my page as often as you can to share it with everyone you know who would also like to join us in the fight against cancer. Sharing is super important as I can only spread the message to everyone I know, but if everyone I know shares my page with everyone they know, our potential supporters grow exponentially. With this being said, please use your ability to share my link on Facebook, with coworkers, etc. as it is a completely free way to help find a cure for cancer. Please use your ability to share to help us all. All donations are tax-deductible.

Thank you so very much for your support!!

Beating cancer is in our blood.

I am fundraising in honor of Jena Brodhead, a current teacher at our middle school. To me, Mrs.Brodhead is way more than a teacher of mine. She is truly like my second mother. Mrs.Brodhead’s journey with Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma started in ____ when she was diagnosed. ___ years later, in 2014, she had officially beaten blood cancer and has been in remission since, but has had to deal with lasting effects from treatments. Through many treatments and surgeries, which are researched and funded by LLS, Mrs.Brodhead was able to survive and then use her story to motivate others. Selfishly, I am grateful for LLS because, without their research and support teams, I would never have gotten to meet one of my best friends who is one of the most influential and valued people in my life; Mrs.Brodhead. She has helped me through the toughest times and is someone that I know is always there for me. Mrs.Brodhead is a person in my life that knows how I am feeling before I know how I am feeling and that could not mean more to me. She is there for me in school, through my leadership positions, and above all is there for me during life. This is the reason why this cause is so dear to my heart.

I believe that doing something with your heart and having a reason behind what you're doing makes you so much more dedicated and gives you a reason to always send that extra email, organize that extra event, etc. My dedication for this cause comes from me hoping that the funds we raise can advance research so much that people like Mrs.Brodhead never have to hear that she has cancer ever again, and that her husband never has to hear that his wife has cancer again, or her mom never has to hear that her child has cancer ever again, and especially so her son and daughter never have to hear that their mom has cancer again.

This is why this cause means so much to me. When thinking about donating I hope you consider how awful it would feel to not only be told that you have cancer but the feeling of your family member, son, daughter, husband, aunt, uncle, cousins, best friend, and so on being diagnosed with something that does not have a guaranteed cure.

I have signed up to save lives with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) and am working to raise as much as possible over the next 7 weeks. Every dollar raised counts as one vote for my campaign. The candidate(s) whose team tallies the most votes earns the prestigious title of Student or Students of the Year. Will you help me earn that title?
 
As you know, everyone wins when cancer loses. Thanks to your support, my efforts will help fund therapies and treatments that are saving lives. Over the years, support from people like you has been responsible for the blood cancer advancements that have doubled, tripled, and in some cases quadrupled the survival rate for some blood cancers.
 
Many LLS-supported therapies not only help blood cancer patients but are also now used to treat patients with rare forms of stomach and skin cancers and are in clinical trials for patients with lung, brain, breast, pancreatic and prostate cancers. And LLS-funded drugs like targeted therapies and immunotherapies are now saving thousands of lives every day.
 
We really are getting close to our goal of a world without blood cancers!
 
All donations are greatly appreciated and tax-deductible. They'll not only support LLS research, but patient services, advocacy, public and professional education, and community services as well.
 
Please visit my website often and tell 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