Students of the Year Washington DC
Katie Mathews | Team No Bad Blood
Welcome to Katie Mathews' SOY Fundraising Page!
So grateful to have the amazing Christine Thayer as our mentor!!
I am beyond grateful to have Kathleen Le from Salon Meraki in Old Town as an official team member on Team No Bad Blood!
Welcome to Katie Mathews's Fundraising Page!
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Katie Mathews (Candidate)
Welcome to my fundraising page!
I am honored to be participating in The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) 2020 Students of the Year (SOY) campaign, a seven-week initiative in which high school students from around the country are nominated to participate in a fundraising competition to benefit LLS’s mission: to find a cure for leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma, and to improve the quality of life of patients and their families.
I am raising funds in honor of my truly inspiring friend and teammate, who is an amazing survivor. I also honor my uncle, who our family lost to cancer after a brave battle, and my grandfather, who also has fought this terrible fight. Each dollar is a vote and the team that raises the most money at the end of the seven weeks is named Students of the Year. As a team, our mission is to not only raise the most money but also to bring attention to blood cancers like leukemia, which is the most common form of cancer in children and teens.
We are changing the face of blood cancer! Will you join us?!
Because of campaigns like Students of the Year, LLS has seen tremendous success discovering new and more effective treatments for blood cancer patients and has created a new exciting initiative focusing on treatments for pediatric patients.
- LLS funded 43 of the 49 FDA approved treatments for blood cancer patients since 2017
- Since 2000, more than 40% of the new cancer therapies approved by the FDA started as blood cancer research
- In 2019, LLS established The LLS Children’s Initiative, a comprehensive $50 MILLION multi-year endeavor, to help children with cancer through every facet of LLS’s mission:
- More than doubling our investment in pediatric cancer research grants
- Expanding education and support service for children and their families
- Advocating for and driving policies to accelerate the development of new treatments and break down barriers to care
- Launching LLS PedAL (Pediatric Acute Leukemia), a groundbreaking global precision medicine clinical trial in acute pediatric leukemia
And many LLS supported therapies not only help blood cancer patients but are now used to treat patients with rare forms of stomach and skin cancers. They're even being tested in clinical trials for patients with a range of cancers including lung, brain, breast, pancreatic and prostate cancers. LLS funded drugs are now being tested for patients with other non-cancerous diseases like Diabetes, Rheumatoid Arthritis and Multiple Sclerosis.
Please join me in supporting my campaign and LLS by making a donation to my fundraising campaign. Thanks to your support, my efforts, will help fund the therapies and treatments and help save lives today.
LLS's continued advancements over the years, are responsible for the blood cancer survival rate doubling and tripling; in some cases, the survival rate has even quadrupled.
All donations are greatly appreciated and are tax deductible. With your donation, you’re not only support LLS research but patient services, advocacy, public and professional education, and community services as well. Together WE CAN FIND A CURE!
Please visit my fundraising webpage(s) often and pass along the link to family, friends, neighbors, colleagues, etc. who might donate! I recognize I need lots of support to reach my fundraising goal!
On behalf of blood cancer patients everywhere I thank you for your support!
For more information about LLS, please visit www.lls.org
33 Comments
Jeanne Grasso
You go girl!
Denise and Bill
Great Job, Katie. You will nail this.
Jim Hermens
Great campaign Katie! Good luck.
Holly Cannon
Good luck!
Danna Leahy
Good luck Katie with the fundraising. It is a fabulous cause and I am honored to support your efforts! Danna Leahy
Sarah Conrad
My brother, my only sibling, died of CML (an aggressive Leukemia) in April 26, 2017. This is for him.
Anonymous
Well done Katie.
Jonathan Mathews
Super Bowl
Alyssa Diz
Superbowl!
Heather Bowman
Good luck, Katie!
Lacye Tennille
Great job, Katie!
Liddy & Seen Kelly
Great job, Katie! Happy to support this cause!
Nancy Thurmond
Honoring Katie Matthews with love
Zile Bemis
For Katie Mathews and her team!
Dede and Joe Stanko
Great work Katie!
Liz Holland
So glad to see you setting such a great example for other ACDS students and alumni!
Lara Mathews
Could not be more proud of you and the little team that could! We honor Alexandra and Vishav and remember our Uncle Flip with love.
Linda Kelly
Good luck Katie and Team No Bad Blood! I am inspired by your passion to do good in the world!
Bob and Trixie Kelleter
In honor of Flip Ingeneri
Steven Amter
Great cause!
Liz Bialecki
Great work Katie!!
Lois & David Bernstein
In memory of Philip (Flip) Ingeneri
Sarah Field
Go, Katie!
Charles Rigler
Happy to support Katie from Montana!
Karinna Papke
You’re a superstar!!
Jan McConnaughey
Appreciate your efforts on behalf of others!
Anonymous
Superbowl!
Wendie White
Super Bowl
Elizabeth Lockwood
Thanks Katie for taking on this important cause!
Jenny and Gordon Lubold
Go Katie!
Carrie Moore
Go Katie! Proud of you.
Sara and Paul Mathews
Go, Katie! My uncle Jim Donahoe is a Lymphoma survivor. Proud to support your effort! - The Mathews
Amy Truly
Great campaign, Katie! Your hard work and enthusiasm are an inspiration.