Welcome To My Fundraising Page!

I am so honored to be participating in The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) 2020 Students of the Year (SOY) campaign! The 2020 SOY campaign is a 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 blood cancers such as 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. 

I am so happy to be working with the team No Bad Blood to raise money for this amazing cause! Our team candidate (leader) is Katie Mathews, one of my good friends and a classmate from Alexandria Country Day School. You can visit her fundraising page here:

 Katie Mathews 

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.

Some of LLS's accomplishments include...

• Funding 43 of the 49 FDA approved treatments for blood cancer patients since 2017
• Making it possible for more than 40% of the new cancer therapies being approved by the FDA started as blood cancer research since 2000
• Continued advancements, which are responsible for the blood cancer survival rate doubling and tripling; in some cases, the survival rate has even quadrupled 
• Establishing The LLS Children’s Initiative in 2019, 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

In addition, 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, our efforts will help fund the therapies and treatments and help save lives.

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 and my team's fundraising webpage(s) often for updates and I would be grateful if you would pass along the link to family, friends, neighbors, colleagues, etc. who might donate! Thank you for all of your support for No Bad Blood's Student of the Year campaign!

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