Hello! My name is Cate Tarr and I am a candidate for the Sidwell Freinds School Foxes for a Cure Team. I am thrilled to be a part of LLS and to help make a difference in so many peoples lives. I wanted to get involved in Students of the Year because of the unique platform it gives to high school students to directly make a difference. When my co-candidate and I held an interest meeting about LLS at school, we were so surprised by how many students and their families had been impacted by cancer. We became eager to lead and organize a team to make a difference and help fellow students make a difference. Several of my family members have been affected by cancer and almost everyone knows someone who has been diagnosed with cancer. By donating to LLS, YOU can make a serious difference in someone's life. Your donations can fund new research projects to find more cures to cancer. 

Hi! My name is Laney Tarr and I am a team member on Foxes for a Cure Team at Sidwell Friends School. My sister approached me with the opportunity to be a part of this campaign, and I was so excited. There are so many clubs, teams, and classes you can be a part of in high school, but doing something like LLS is what really matters. Cancer is something so many people are affected by, no matter who they are or where they are from. I joined LLS because I realized this could be some of the most important work I ever do. Everything counts, so please do your part and donate!

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) 2020 Students of the Year (SOY) campaign, a seven-week initiative in which high school students from around the country are nominated to participate in a fundraising competition to benefit LLS’s mission: to find a cure for leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma, and to improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

We are raising funds in honor of those who are currently battling or are in remission from a blood cancer. Each dollar is a vote and the team that raises the most money at the end of the seven weeks is named Students of the Year. As a team, 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.

We are changing the face of blood cancer! Will you join us?!

Because of campaigns like Students of the Year, LLS has seen tremendous success discovering new and more effective treatments for blood cancer patients and has created a new exciting initiative focusing on treatments for pediatric patients.

• LLS funded 43 of the 49 FDA approved treatments for blood cancer patients since 2017
• Since 2000, more than 40% of the new cancer therapies approved by the FDA started as blood cancer research
• In 2019, LLS established The LLS Children’s Initiative, a comprehensive $50 MILLION multi-year endeavor, to help children with cancer through every facet of LLS’s mission:
  • More than doubling our investment in pediatric cancer research grants
  • Expanding education and support service for children and their families
  • Advocating for and driving policies to accelerate the development of new treatments and break down barriers to care
  • Launching LLS PedAL (Pediatric Acute Leukemia), a groundbreaking global precision medicine clinical trial in acute pediatric leukemia

And many LLS supported therapies not only help blood cancer patients but are now used to treat patients with rare forms of stomach and skin cancers. They're even being tested in clinical trials for patients with a range of cancers including lung, brain, breast, pancreatic and prostate cancers. LLS funded drugs are now being tested for patients with other non-cancerous diseases like Diabetes, Rheumatoid Arthritis and Multiple Sclerosis.

Please join us in supporting my campaign and LLS by making a donation to my fundraising campaign. Thanks to your support, our efforts, will help fund the therapies and treatments and help save lives today.

LLS's continued advancements over the years, are responsible for the blood cancer survival rate doubling and tripling; in some cases, the survival rate has even quadrupled.

All donations are greatly appreciated and are tax deductible. With your donation, you’re not only support LLS research but patient services, advocacy, public and professional education, and community services as well. Together WE CAN FIND A CURE!

Please visit our fundraising webpage(s) often and pass along the link to family, friends, neighbors, colleagues, etc. who might donate!  I recognize I need lots of support to reach my fundraising goal!

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

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

The power of your donation!! 

$25 helps fund an episode of The Bloodline with LLS, a free podcast series that provides information to patients and caregivers.
• $50 helps fund educational booklets for healthcare providers and their patients.
• $200 helps fund general lab supplies for one week, allowing researchers funded by
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society to conduct critical blood cancer research.
• $300 helps fund one week of an online support group on www.LLS.org for patients and
caregivers coping with a blood cancer diagnosis.
• $500 helps defray the costs of treatment-related travel for a patient.

$1,000 helps fund one day of nurses providing patients and caregivers with clinical trial search

• $2,000 helps fund one week of blood cancer research conducted by a scientist funded by
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
• $5,000 helps support a one-day, free regional blood cancer education conference for patients,
survivors, caregivers, family members and healthcare professionals.