Students of the Year Washington DC
Mary Katherine Dean | Team Cubs 4 a Cure
Welcome to Mary Katherine Dean's SOY Fundraising Page!
Welcome To My Fundraising Page!
My name is Mary Katherine Dean, I am a junior at Georgetown Visitation, and I am honored to be participating in The Leukemia & Lymphoma Scoiety's (LLS) 2020 Students of the Year (SOY) campaign as a team member for Team Cubs 4 a Cure!
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.
Personally, I am trying to find a cure for my grandfather, Bobby Dean, who faced his battle of lymphoma with constant bravery for ten years.
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
31 Comments
Antoinette Angotti
Good Luck MK. What a great cause.
Kathleen Maynard
Go get ‘em MK!!~The Maynards
MacMillan Family
Mary Katherine, Congratulations on your nomination for the SOY Challenge! We wish you Good Luck on your goal and efforts to make a difference. Regards from Chicago and the MacMillan Family
The Leachmans
Thanks for participating in this great cause mary Katherine! -Maxi and Tommy leachman
Martha Hastings
Great work and great cause!
Amy and Bob Dean
We are proud of you Mary Katherine. Thank you for all you are doing to raise money for LLS. Love you - Mom and Dad.
Bill and Lynn Roohan
Mary Katherine, Keep up the good work--your grandfather i am sure is very proud of you!!!
Trish Bonebrake
Good luck with your campaign!
Dave & Regina DiLuigi
Best of luck in the campaign Mary Catherine. Raising money for to find a cure for blood cancers is a tremendous cause. Your grandfather was a great man, who touched the lives of many people. Regina and I are fortunate to have been among them.
Michael Rudolph
What a great cause and good luck with the fundraising.
Dean D'Angelo
Great work !!
Kemp Broujos
Good luck, MK.
Jason Tompkins
Mary Katherine, Thank you for your leadership. What an inspiration!
Jackie Bradford
Mary Katherine ! Wow, impressive and congratulations to you....Please say hello to your Mom and Dad for me. Jackie
bobby meehling
for my brother, i miss you everyday
Richard and Lisa White
Good luck
David Moore
Go get 'em MK!!
Harmon Handorf
Mary Katherine, thanks for leading the charge on this!
Erica White
Great cause! Good luck!! :)
Kristi Dean
Keep up the good work, Mary Katherine!! LLS is a great organization - your hard work and dedication to this campaign is great to see! I'm very proud of you and I know Paps is smiling down on you and very proud of you, too! Love you! Aunt TiTi
Gema and Paul DeCain
Congratulations Mary on your initiative and heartfelt dedication to a wonderful cause, we can all learn from your purpose and conviction. We wish you the very best.
Fanning Family
Best of luck Mary Katherine in your fundraising efforts for LLC! What a great cause.
Preslava Kovatchevska
This is an amazing undertaking for a great cause. Good luck, Mary Katherine!
Brad Coburn
Good work Mary!
John Fee
Mary Katherine, I was blessed to know your Grandpa and have many wonderful memories of our times together in Valley Lee and at the Mount. Your Grandpa and my Dad were good friends also, they laughed a lot together, both were bad golfers, but boy did they have some good times ! Sadly both had to fight lymphoma.. Your leadership and fundraising efforts will directly support those most in need and lead to innovative new treatments that provide hope and increase cure rates. I wish you all the best in your campaign and always know that your Granpa, Bobby Dean, is surely smiling from heaven & proud of you Sincerely, John Fee aka "FeeDawg" (as your Grandpa called me)
Michael Martinez
Great work Mary Katgerine
Greg & Kathleen Forester
Congratulations on your hard work!
Tom Alm
Glad to contribute to a great cause. Good luck Mary Katherine.
Tom and Karen DeTulleo
Thank you for your hard work and commitment to this mission. As a blood cancer survivor, former MOY candidate, and eternal fan of your mom, I am happy and honored to support you. Best of luck.
Paws for a Walk
We are very proud of you, Mary Katherine! What a great cause! The PFAW Team (& Jasper, too!)
Thomas Hogan
Great job MKD! The Hogan Family