Students of the Year Washington DC
Alex Pope | Team Coyotes for a Cure
Welcome to Alex Pope's SOY Fundraising Page!
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Welcome to Alex Pope's SOY Fundraising Page!
Welcome To My Fundraising Page!
Hello, my name is Alex Pope. I am participating as a member of the Coyotes for a Cure team, comprised of ten students from four high schools in Montgomery County, Maryland. I am currently a junior in the Humanities magnet at Poolesville High School, where I am a varsity baseball player and a member of the National Honor Society. I am running in honor of my great grandfather Charles Lewis and other family members and friends who have passed away from leukemia and Hodgkin's disease.
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.
My team has an ambitious goal to raise $100,000 as part of the Student of the Year campaign. We will be competing against other student teams in the Washington, DC area to see which team can raise the most money for LLS. 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 LLS by making a donation to my fundraising campaign. Thanks to your support, my efforts will help fund cancer 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 supporting 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
15 Comments
Kyle Pope
Great job Alex! I’m proud of you!
Anne and Joe Alberti
Good luck to you and your team!
Donna Cutting
Love, Aunt Donna
Ellen and Tom Pope
Thank you for your desire to help find a cure! Love, Grandma and Grandpa
John and Sue McDonald
We hope you reach your goal and you will be personally rewarded with a great sense of accomplishment!
Gerry and Bob McDonald
Best of luck to you and your teammates. Great work so far!! Love, Nana and Grandpa
Darren McDonald and Trish Baumer
Good luck with your fundraising efforts!!
Sam & Deanna Adamczyk
Congrats Alex, very proud of you being a leader is this effort. Good Luck & God Bless!
Gordon Groisser
So critical to raise funds to try to eradicate these deadly cancers.
Cindy and Don Jones
Good job and good luck on your fundraising!
Patrick and Joanne Daly
Thank You Alex Pope and your fundraising teammates, the “Coyotes for a Cure!” It is with great care and concern for others that you are all participating in this tremendous event. You are making the world better just by your example. Being able to support you in this endeavor also allows us to share in helping others. We are very appreciative and proud of your efforts and talents. Congratulations!
Ron and Carolyn Klinger
We are happy to support this worthwhile cause! Best of luck with your continued fundraising!
Kathie Roberts
Thanks to Alex Pope for supporting such a great cause!
Alex Laffman
Camp for Alex
LINA M OCAMPO
Great Work!