Students of the Year Washington DC
Caroline Zaudtke | Team Gators Beat Blood Cancer
Welcome to Caroline Zaudtke's SOY Fundraising Page!
Welcome To My Fundraising Page!
I am honored to be participating in 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.
I am raising funds in honor of a fellow Stone Ridge student, Meaghan Kilner, who is thankfully in remission from her battle with Hodgkin's lymphoma. 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. This money brings so much awareness to what SOY and LLS can do for those battling Blood cancer. 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. Will you help the Gators fight in beating blood cancer?
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 me in supporting my campaign and LLS by making a donation to my fundraising campaign. Thanks to your support, my 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 my 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 I thank you for your support!
For more information about LLS, please visit www.lls.org
20 Comments
JOHN ZAUDTKE
Yo go Caroline!
Delaine Mazich
Go Caroline! Go Gators! Beat Blood Cancer! Miss you!
Susanne Mount
What a wonderful thing you’re doing, Caroline!
Rick Morstein
Good luck with this very worthwhile effort.
Tiffanny Gates
Well done Caroline ❤️
Deborah Levy
Nice job!!
Dan Robert Zaudtke
Proud of you Caroline!
Beth Freeman
You Go GIRLS!!! My daughter was a candidate last year. Such a wonderful experience for a great cause!
Meredith Beeg
Go Gators!
Roxanne Edwards
Nice work Caroline!
Lisa & Jim Hunt
Keep up the great work Caroline - so inspired by your commitment to others - Lisa & Jim Hunt
Susan M Washington
Commendable effort Caroline.
SolemEU
Congratulations Caroline and to all of the Gators for their hard work to beat blood cancer! SolemEU Dr Gabi Kothny, Jürgen Reiher, Pete Zaudtke
Holly Rothrock
Way to go Caroline!! keep up the great work.
Dean Erhardt
Thanks for working for such a worthy cause.
Mrs. Flood
We were Gatored! Go Stone Ridge!
Mark Larkin
Great job Caroline! From the team at Vitaccess (Oxford, UK)
Rich Kaelin
Great Cause!
Lund Miller family
Go Caroline!
Jennifer Leusch
Way to go Caroline ! Good luck !