Students of the Year Washington DC
Skylar Rothman | Team Patriots for a Purpose
Welcome to Skylar Rothman'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 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(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
23 Comments
Howard Rothman
Super Proud of you Skylar for joining this year's Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Student of the Year Campaign!! Go team Patriots for a Purpose!!
Anonymous
So proud of you.
Andrea Jacobson
Skylar, great cause!!! Very proud of you! Keep up the good work❤️
Michael Seidel
Great cause! Best wishes!
Ted Blankenship
Great work, Skylar! Your work will help so many people! Ted and Tom (Friends of Holly)
Laura Calabrese
Best of luck. This is a beautiful cause.
Spencer Pines
Let's find a cure
Carisa Rafael
A very special cause, so proud you are helping!
Shoshana Brandes
Congrats Skyler! Great cause...best wishes!
Frida Rafael
We are so proud of you Skylar!
Logan Campbell
Thank you for doing this, find a cure!
Claudia Walsh
Thank you Sky for representing such an amazing cause!! Love you! -claud
Andrea Morrow
Great work, Skylar!! Such a wonderful cause.
Brie Jeweler
Keep up the great work for a great cause!
Ben Zajdel
Good Luck!! You're a ROCKSTAR
Michelle Licht
Great job Skylar!
Stacy Ferguson
Wonderful cause... happy to support!
Scott Tydings
Congratulations Skylar on your nomination! Wishing you good luck on your fundraising campaign for such a great cause ;-)
Stephen Ritchey
Great cause to support! Good luck!
Pavel Sukhobok
Keep up the great work!
Wendy Raab
Congratulations on your nomination Skylar and all your efforts, along with your team, to raise money and bring awareness to blood cancer.
Greg J Baroni
Thank you, Skylar, for supporting such an amazing cause!
Richard, Kate, Rachel Pineda
Great Work, Skylar! Richard, Kate, & Rachel Pineda