Today we kicked-off the campaign! I am so excited for the 7 weeks ahead. LLS held a great kickoff event where we had great food and heard some awesome speeches. Thank you to everyone who has already donated and I can't wait to see how well our team does. Being able to raise money and awareness for such a good cause is so important, and I am honored to be able to participate in this! Thank you for everyone supporting me and team Justice for a Cure!

I am so excited for the campaign to begin! We are less than ONE WEEK away and I couldn't be more excited to start! My Co-candidates and I can't wait to see how our team does and how much we can do to bring awareness and support to blood cancers. I can't wait for the support from my community in this huge fundraising campaign. I know that what I am doing is going to help the research going towards finding a way to cure blood cancer and save so many lives, including those of children. Thank you so much for your support as I begin my campaign!!!

Hi everyone!

My name is Grace Martin and I am so glad you are visiting my page! I am a sophomore at Justice High School in Falls Church, Virginia. Just a little bit about me. I am on Justice's varsity lacrosse, field hockey, and swim & dive teams. I also love music! I play the violin, sing in choir and play handbells at church, and I play the guitar in my free time. I participate in my school's Key Club, Girls Up Club, Science National Honor Society, and National Honor Society. Alongside this, I do lots of community service through school, church, etc. I was a lifeguard, swim instructor and dive coach over the summer, and I babysit. 

I am so honored to be a candidate for Justice High School's SOY team Justice for a Cure this year! I got involved with LLS four years ago when I began participating in Light the Night. I did it for Team InvincBill, which was my mother's boss, PLASTICS' President Bill Carteaux's team. After participating in this incredible experience for a few years, I am honored to be selected for the SOY program as a team member last year!  Our team raised around $45,000 and I personally raised over $10,500. I decided to participate in the SOY program last year so that I could work with Mr. Carteaux, but sadly he passed away from his battle with AML. I now fundraiser in honor of Mr. Carteux and all of his efforts towards LLS. I am also fundraising for all the kids fighting their own battles with leukemia and lymphoma, in hopes of finding a cure for them, and everyone else with blood cancers! 

After having such a successful and mind-opening 7 weeks last year, I have had a lot of time to reflect and prepare for this coming year. I knew that I wanted to continue to fundraise for this cause, because I know that it is truly helping those in need. After last year, I decided that this is something I would like to do through the rest of high school, and hopefully through the rest of my life.

Thank you for visiting my page and I hope you will donate to this amazing cause!

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 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 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 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