Hi everyone!   

My name is Grace Martin and I am so glad you are visiting my page! I am a junior at Justice High School in Falls Church, Virginia. Here is just a little bit about me. I am on Justice's varsity lacrosse, field hockey, and swim & dive teams (and I'm the captain of the dive team and field hockey team)! I also love music! I play the violin, sing in choir and play handbells at church, and I play the guitar and piano in my free time. I participate in my school's Key Club and Girl Up Club, and I'm the Reporter of our Science National Honor Society, and Social Media Liaison of our National Honor Society. Alongside this, I do lots of community service through school, church, etc. I have been a lifeguard, swim instructor, and dive coach in the summer, and I babysit. 

I am so honored to be a candidate for Justice High School's SOY team Justice for a Cure again this year! This is my third year with the LLS Student of the Year program. I got involved with LLS five years ago when I began participating in Light the Night. I did it for Team InvincBill, which was my mother's former boss, PLASTICS' President Bill Carteaux's team. Two years ago, I decided to participate in the SOY program last year so that I could work with Mr. Carteaux, but sadly he passed away from his battle with AML. I now fundraiser in honor of Mr. Carteux and all of his efforts towards LLS. I am also fundraising for all the kids fighting their own battles with leukemia and lymphoma, in hopes of finding a cure for them, and everyone else with blood cancers! 

After having two successful and mind-opening campaigns, I have had a lot of time to reflect and prepare for this coming year. I know that I want to continue to fundraise for this cause because I know that it is truly helping those in need. I've decided that this is something I would like to do throughout high school, and hopefully throughout the rest of my life.

Over the past two years, my team has raised over $85,000 and I have personally raised over $20,000. I want to continue to be such a large part of such an amazing organization, which is why need your help. I hope you will be willing to donate to my campaign so that this money can go towards research to find a cure to blood cancer and to those who need help financially while fighting blood cancer. As we continue through this pandemic, LLS is helping to fund research for a COVID vaccine for cancer patients. Many patients fighting cancer cannot take the vaccine you and I will be given, so a lot of money and time has to go towards COVID research involving cancer patients.

Thank you for visiting my page and I hope you will donate to this amazing cause!

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