Virtual 5k for Clean Blood

As part of our fundraising efforts, we are hosting a virtual 5k, from February 20th-March 7th, in which participants can run or walk, at their own pace, anywhere and at any time within the 15-day period. There will be a raffle with prizes from many local businesses! For more information and to sign up, please visit our website: https://runsignup.com/Race/VA/AnycityAnystate/RunforCleanBlood. 

Welcome to Warhawks for Clean Blood!

Our Candidates: 

Matthew Wilken is a senior from James Madison High School in Vienna, Virginia.

Ainona Black-Planas is also a senior from James Madison High School.

Our Team Members:

Claire Knowles, Kate Shuab, Carina Mezheritsky, and Mayra Rios are all sophomores from James Madison High School.

Aryana O'Neill is a senior from Los Gatos High School in Los Gatos, California.

Jessica Barker is a junior from Atlantic High School in Boca Raton, Florida.

Kathy Buckley is an adult team member from Alton, Illinois.

Mary Black is an adult team member from Carbondale, Illinois.

Susan Frederick is an adult team member joining us locally from Vienna, Virginia.

Dan Schnapp is an adult team member from Greenwich, Connecticut.

Linda Schnapp is an adult team member from Silver Spring, Maryland. 

Thank you for visiting my fundraising page, welcome!

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Ainona Black-Planas (Candidate)

Matthew Wilken (Candidate)

Team James Madison

Aryana ONeill

Carina Mezheritsky

Claire Knowles

Jessica Barker

Kate Schuab

Kathy Buckley

Mary Black

Mayra Rios

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