Thank you for visiting my fundraising page and joining the fight to end cancer!

My name is Tess Gardner and I am very honored to have been nominated to participate in The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's 2021 Student of the Year (SOY) campaign as I lead my team of fellow students from the Academy of the Holy Cross (The Red Elephants) in raising life-saving funds for LLS's misson of curing all types of blood cancers and improving the lives of patients and their families.

Did you know every 3 minutes someone is diagnosed with a blood cancer? Additionally, every 9 minutes someone loses their battle. 

Because of this, I encourage you to join me in supporting The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society by making a donation to my fundraising campaign and helping me reach a personal goal of $15,000 and a team goal of $75,000.  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 share this page with anyone 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