GRAND FINALE SILENT AUCTION

It is hard to believe that we are coming to the end of my Students of the Year Campaign to raise money for The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.  It has been an amazing and heartwarming experience, working with the exceptional people at LLS, and receiving donations and letters from so many kind and generous people. 

March 20th at 6 pm marks the end of my 7-week fundraising!!! Let's make these last few days really count!!!! Please consider donating via my fundraising page AND/OR bidding on our awesome Grand Finale Silent Auction Items!! By simply registering for the Grand Finale, you will have access to our teams' auction items!

Saratoga Springs NY Getaway & Saratoga Gift Basket (#112)

Hand-made Ceramic Sake Set & Wooden Stand (#113)

Week-long Snow Basin Ski Lake Escape (#114)

Wine Basket & Olive Basket (#115)

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER AND GAIN ACCESS TO THE SILENT AUCTION AND FINALE CELEBRATION!!!!

I cannot thank you all enough for your endless support of my campaign! You are ALL making a HUGE impact on the lives of blood cancer patients, their families, research, and treatments!

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.

More than a million Americans are fighting a battle with blood cancers and every 4 minutes another person unknowingly joins this fight. In this campaign, we are honoring those who have battled blood cancer, and are fundraising to help the LLS’ long-standing mission to find a cure and improve the lives of patients and their families. Sadly, cancer touches many families across the world, as it has to my own family and friends. Our team, BC We Care, is in honor of my family friend Bob Cusimano. In 2016, Mr. Cusimano was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia and received his first bone marrow transplant after a year and a half of treatments. His strength and determination ceased to fade when three months after his first bone marrow transplant, Mr. Cusimano caught Legionnaires pneumonia, requiring a second bone-marrow transplant. Mr. Cusimano’s ability to overcome not only one, but two, bone marrow transplants is truly incredible. Growing up, Mr. Cusimano showed me the importance of hard work and determination, and since then he’s continued to thrive as a businessman, husband, father, friend, and inspiration to all.

Team BC We Care would like to give a BIG thank you to our sponsors Della Pello Paving and Foley Inc.! Thank you so much for your support!!!

For other sponsorship inquiries, please email ohauck2022@pingry.org or elisad1@yahoo.com

Meet the Team!

Thank you so much for visiting the team BC We Care fundraising page! In this post, I will introduce all of the team members who have so graciously joined the fight against blood cancers. 

When Mr. Cusimano first nominated me to start a campaign for the LLS through Students of the Year, I was so incredibly grateful to have such an amazing opportunity to help the fight against cancer. Along this journey, I have found how passionate my friends, family, classmates, and teachers, are in this effort as well. With that being said, I chose people who I felt would bring the same level of passion, creativity, leadership, and activism to this campaign, and I would like to introduce them all to you!

Olivia Hauck & Elisa Della Pello - Team Leader/Parent

Kaitlyn DeVito, Ansley Higgins, Giles Burnett, Emily Samaro, Sandy Friedman - Pingry Students/Friends

Weiwei Yu - Pingry Teacher/Advisor 

Elaina Stout - Family

Gianna & Isabella Della Pello - Family

To learn more about each team member, visit our Instagram page @BC.WeCare!