Students of the Year Washington DC
Gaston Finger | Team SMASH Cancer
Gaston's Students of the Year Fundraiser
I am honored to participate in the 2022 Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Students of the Year campaign! This 7-week fundraising initiative consists of teams led by high school students across the country competing to benefit the LLS. I am searching for donations in honor of Juliana Clarkson, an Arlington local who would be a junior in college this year if she had not been taken by mixed-phenotype acute leukemia just before she was to start high school. The team that collects the most money at the end of the seven weeks is named Student of the Year. My goal is not only to raise the most money but to bring awareness to LLS and its mission! My team's goal is to raise $50,000 and we need your help!
All donations will aid enormously in the LLS's mission: curing leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improving the quality of life of patients and their families.
Gaston's Students of the Year Fundraiser
I have signed up to save lives with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) and am working to raise as much as possible over the next 7 weeks. Every dollar raised counts as one vote for my campaign. The candidate(s) whose team tallies the most votes earns the prestigious title of Student or Students of the Year. Will you help me earn that title?
As you know, everyone wins when cancer loses. Thanks to your support, my efforts will help fund therapies and treatments that are saving lives. Over the years, support from people like you has been responsible for the blood cancer advancements that have doubled, tripled, and in some cases quadrupled the survival rate for some blood cancers.
Many LLS-supported therapies not only help blood cancer patients but are also now used to treat patients with rare forms of stomach and skin cancers and are in clinical trials for patients with lung, brain, breast, pancreatic and prostate cancers. And LLS-funded drugs like targeted therapies and immunotherapies are now saving thousands of lives every day.
We really are getting close to our goal of a world without blood cancers!
All donations are greatly appreciated and tax-deductible. They'll not only support LLS research, but patient services, advocacy, public and professional education, and community services as well.
Please visit my website often and tell friends who would also like to donate!
On behalf of blood cancer patients everywhere, thank you for your support! For more information about LLS, please visit www.lls.org
6 Comments
Jennifer Armstrong
Very pleased to participate in this initiative! Bravo Gaston.
Jennifer Cooper
Thank you Gaston!!!
June elizabeth Rives
Keep up the good work!
Rick and Tanja Holtzapple
Science matters! We wish you luck.
Char Beales
Go Gaston!
Jill Bartholomew
Thank you for helping to raise awareness about these cancers. Research matters!