Students of the Year Washington DC
Gigi Jacobsen | Team Fire Hearts
Welcome to Gigi Jacobsen's SOY Fundraising Page!
Gigi Jacobsen
Hi! I am a junior at The Madeira School in Mclean, VA and live in Washington, DC. At school, I play field hockey, manage the basketball and lacrosse teams, and am in student government. In my free time, you can find me watching movies with my friends or at one of the many major landmarks or museums in the city. I am so grateful to have been introduced to LLS and SOY by my friends and candidates, Gabrielle Russo and Lilly Evans. I am so excited to continue fundraising and for my team to be a force of change in the world of blood cancers and am honored to be part of such a life-changing campaign.
SOY 2019
I am 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. I joined the campaign because I love to work in a team for a greater purpose. I am proud to be 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(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.
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.
18 Comments
Rhoda and Dan Glckman
Good luck Gigi in raising money for this worthy cause! Aunt Rhoda and Uncle Danny
JACOB M GLICKMAN
Yay GG! xoxo
Joel & Heidi Kallett
Good luck Gigi! Great organization and cause.
Grace and Liam O'Grady
Way to go Gigi!
Norman Glickman
Way to go Gigi Great gGrandma and Grandpa would be so proud too
Simon & Ruth Jacobsen
Thank you for taking this important challenge on, Gigi. The world needs more people like you! Dad & Ruthie.
Anonymous
Great project Gigi, Good luck !!!!!
Bob and Beth Ann Newton
Thank you for giving us the opportunity to support you and this worthy cause. You are one-in-a-million!!
MailyBrewer
Keep up the good work Gigi! We love you - Your California Mom
matt cornad
Love u Toni !
Sharon Glickman
For Gigi Jacobsen
Eva Malhotra
We are very proud of the initiative shown by you ,Gigi.Your efforts are an embodiment to the fact that “One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.” Good luck to the Future. Eva and Rahul Sharma
Toni Glickman
SO PROUD OF YOU, DAUGHTER!! LOVE YOU!!!
Jason Seligman
To support Gigi’s fund raising effort!
Mary Ellen Matheson
Supporting Gigi and Gabrielle in these efforts to help combat these diseases.
Nicolette Brewer
I love you Gigi <3
Jackson Merrick
Never met my grandmother because of Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The cause is noble as hell, keep doing your thing.
Anonymous
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