Students of the Year Washington DC

Emily Ahmed | Team Panthers Against Cancer's Campaign Team

Emily's Students of the Year Fundraiser

Jan 20, 2021

 

The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease, and myeloma and improve the quality of life of patients and their families. LLS’s signature fundraising campaigns support research, education, and advocacy, including a nearly $1.3 billion investment in cutting edge cancer research worldwide. LLS helped advance 52 out of the 60 FDA-Approved blood cancer treatments since 2017 and has continued to provide free educational resources for patients and their families. LLS has helped millions impacted by cancer throughout its more than 70-year history, even funding breakthrough blood cancer research to advance lifesaving treatments and cures that is now helping patients with other cancers and diseases. 

Each year, LLS dedicates the Student of the Year Campaign to honor a local patient or survivor. This year’s honored hero, Kory Coates, was a 15-year-old boy diagnosed with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML) at the age of 15 after suffering from a mild stroke. Kory battled AML for seven months after his diagnosis, but he continued to excel in school despite the obstacles against him. After two years, Kory relapsed on August 26th, 2019, but he continued to fight and had a bone marrow transplant as his next course of treatment. Although he fought hard, he, unfortunately, passed away this December before completing his junior year of high school. Kory is the reason I am so passionate about fundraising for this campaign and why I am so dedicated to the LLS mission. 

Similar to many others LLS is a foundation that resonates deeply with me. I am so excited to be apart of this team and have the opportunity to help so many others. I have already learned and grown so much by being involved with LLS, and I can't wait to continue my journey. I am thrilled to see what myself and my team will be able to accomplish in the coming weeks! Thank you for your generosity and support, it means so much to me!

By donating to LLS, you support the many facets of LLS’s mission work from investing in groundbreaking research, providing education and support to patients, and advocating at the state and federal level for legislation to help those living with cancer. 

Please visit my website as often as you can and share it with everyone you know who would also like to join us in the fight against cancer. Together, we have the power, the passion and the resolve to achieve a world without blood cancer. All donations are tax-deductible.

On behalf of the Panthers Against Cancer team and everyone affected by cancer, I sincerely thank you for your support!



 

 

Emily's Students of the Year Fundraiser

Aug 24, 2020

Thank you for visiting my fundraising page, welcome!

I encourage you to join me in supporting The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) by making a donation to my fundraising campaign. By donating to LLS, you support the many facets of LLS’s mission work from investing in groundbreaking research, providing education and support to patients, and advocating at the state and federal level for legislation to help those living with cancer. My appreciation for your support cannot be overstated — each and every dollar donated to LLS brings us closer to our goal to end blood cancer and makes an impact for cancer patients and their families.

As a global leader in the fight to end cancer, LLS is committed to doing more for blood cancer patients and families than any organization in the world. LLS’s signature fundraising campaigns drive critical support for its mission, including a nearly $1.3 billion investment in cutting edge cancer research worldwide since it was founded in 1949. Since the 1960s, survival rates for many blood cancer patients have doubled, tripled, or even quadrupled.

Every facet of LLS’s mission – research, education and support, and policy and advocacy – work in harmony to put blood cancer patients and their families first. LLS has helped millions impacted by cancer throughout its more than 70-year history, even funding breakthrough blood cancer research to advance lifesaving treatments and cures that is now helping patients with other cancers and diseases. That is why at LLS we say that beating cancer is in our blood.

Please visit my website as often as you can and share it with everyone you know who would also like to join us in the fight against cancer. Together, we have the power, the passion and the resolve to achieve a world without blood cancer. All donations are tax-deductible.

On behalf of cancer patients and their families everywhere, I sincerely thank you for your support!

For more information about LLS, please visit lls.org

 

 

20 Comments

  • Julia McKeon

    Good for you, Emily, to step forward to address this disease with such compassion for those who have suffered and those who have lost loved ones prematurely. I am sure that you will be successful! Julia

  • Julieta Acebal

    Good luck, Emily and thank you for doing this important work! Xoxo, Julie & Jacey

  • Justin Osofsky

    Emily, good luck and thanks for supporting this important cause! -Justin

  • Lydia Dolan

    Thank you for raising awareness and funding to help combat blood cancers - this is really important work!

  • Manju Malkani

    Thank you so much for helping with such a noble cause, Emily. Best of luck to you and your team.

  • Dicker Family

    Emily, we are so proud of you for stepping up and supporting this important cause. The Dicker Family

  • Christine Dowling

    Best of luck with your fund raising campaign! The Dowlings

  • Mr. and Mrs. George Kappaz

    Good luck, Emily!

  • Kathy & Hunter McKay

    Emily, We are happy to support your efforts for this worthy cause. All the best, Kathy & Hunter

  • The Child Family

    Great job, Emily!

  • Brooke & Sandi Leatherman

    Hi Emily, your passion to make a difference, and commitment to improving the lives of others is inspiring. The lives of many will be positively impacted by your work on this campaign. All the best! Brooke & Sandi

  • Caroline Daggitt

    Best of lucky with the campaign, Emily!

  • Angela Messersmith

    So proud of you Emily and happy to support your campaign. Xoxo

  • Liz and Mark Ordan

    Great cause and great work Emily!

  • Janice van Stolk

    Congratulations, Emily! I support you in this noble effort. I can't imagine a better advocate than you for this worthwhile cause! Your fundraising efforts are bound for success. All the best, Janice van Stolk

  • Suzette O'Connor

    Way to go, Emily! Good luck with the fundraising!

  • The Risser Family

    Great job on your fund raising efforts, Emily!😊👏🏻

  • Ki & Hea Jin Yoon

    Great work Emily! Ki & Hea Jin

  • Rachel Ahmed

    Good job. Keep making up proud.

  • Molly Hamilton

    Great job Emily! Molly and Pete

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