Hi, my name is Taylor Motsinger and I am a part of the Leukemia Lymphoma Society (LLS) "No Bad Blood" fundraising team. I am a junior at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia. I am on my school's crew team, in the German club, participating in the Women's March Youth Empowerment T.C. Chapter, and waiting to hear about the National Honors Society. This is my first year helping to raise money for the LLS "Student of the Year Campaign" and I am beyond exited. When I first heard about LLS, I immediately thought about how much of an amazing opportunity it would be. Everyone is affected by cancer in some way and I have witnessed firsthand the horror that it is. It means the world to me that I can be a part of a society that recognizes people's suffering and is doing all they can to fund research for better treatments and cures. My father was diagnosed with tongue cancer when I was very young. He worried that he would lose his ability to speak after his procedure so he recorded him singing prior so that my siblings and I would be able to know what he sounded like growing up. Thankfully he was able to come out of the procedure with his voice, but the thought of something as small as losing my father's voice was terrifying. I am so grateful that he is alive and healthy today but cancer does not always end that way. I want to help to make a difference so that other people can have a similar outcome as my father. Every penny counts and is working to better someone's life who has been diagnosed with a blood cancer.

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