Students of the Year Washington DC

Sara Hayes | Team No Bad Blood

Welcome to Sara Hayes' SOY Fundraising Page!

Jan 17, 2020

Friends and family, 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.

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. 

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

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.

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!

With love, 

Sara 

 

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

 

 

25 Comments

  • Susan Hayes

    Thanks for getting involved in such a worthy cause Sara! Kudos to you and your team.

  • Marjorie Egarian

    Sara, Your fundraising project is surely making a difference. Facing cancer is hard enough but those who can't afford treatments are most vulnerable. Good luck reaching your personal and collective goal for this effort. Marjorie

  • Culwell family

    Good luck and I hope you raise lots of $$ for a great cause

  • Brock Hayes

    Thanks for making us aware of a great cause!

  • Vic and Laura Bergan/Rivera

    A great cause and an equally great organization. Thanks for your Service, Sara!

  • Susan Siemietkowski

    Great job, Sara!

  • The Winters Family

    Sara, Great job promoting such a great cause. Keep up the great work! The Winters

  • David and Mary Beth Mooney

    Thank you for giving us the opportunity to support your service to a great cause . Keep up the good work , Sara

  • Winfield Donoho

    I'm happy to donate to this worthy cause. A dear friend of mine suffers from Multiple Myeloma. Best of luck in meeting your goal.

  • Amy Rivera

    Good work Sara! Xxoo

  • Silvia Holschneider

    Great that you are doing this!

  • Ricardo Torres

    Thanks for doing this and reaching out!

  • Jayne O’Donnell

    Happy to do it for you and the cause, Sara!

  • Anonymous

    Fabulous cause and great fund raising Sara !! 💞

  • Diego Quijada

    Great Job Sara!!

  • Jen and Dave Stricklin

    Keep up the good work Sara! Such an important cause!

  • Hilda Cortes Riv

    Mi Linda, Estoy muy orgullosa de que estés involucrada en esta causa tan valiosa. Te quiero mucho, Abuelita,

  • Ann and Bill McGurn

    Thank you Sara for supporting an important cause. You are making a difference - excellent work! Hugs, Ann and Bill McGurn

  • Scott Keenum

    Sara, Proud of you

  • Mary Catherine Toker

    Sara -- all the best to you with your campaign. This is important work.

  • Cindy Kang

    So proud of you for getting involved with such a great cause. Good luck Sara!

  • Pete Hayes

    Go Sara, this is a great cause!

  • Diane & Bob Sykes

    Good luck Sara. Love, Diane and Bob Sykes

  • Thomas Klatko

    Sara, I am very happy to contribute to this most important cause. Congratulations on your involvement and work on this project!

  • Les & Natalie Abrams

    Sara, Thanks for doing this!

Contact us by email or call 888.LLS.7177.