Hello, my name is Alayne Kraus!

I have the privilege of being asked to be a team member for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) 2025 Cleveland Student Visionaries of the Year campaign. Student Visionaries of the Year is a seven-week leadership development program that runs from January 17th, 2025, to March 8th, 2025 to raise money to help blood cancer patients not only survive but thrive after treatment. I am writing today to ask for your support of my team’s campaign and LLS’s mission to find a cure for blood cancers and improve the quality of life for patients. I am part of a team of committed friends and family and together, we have set a fundraising goal of $100,000! The money raised helps LLS, the largest nonprofit dedicated to creating a world without blood cancers, fund research to advance lifesaving treatments, drive advocacy for policies that protect patient access to these treatments, and provide patients and families with hope, guidance, education and support. Our team is particularly passionate about advocacy and will be representing this area of LLS during our campaign. LLS is relentless, agile, and determined to effect meaningful change in the fight against blood cancers and has raised its voice to put patients and families at the center of everything it does. LLS empowers advocates across the country to share their stories and prompt lawmakers to act on public policy issues that matter to blood cancer patients and survivors – from improving access to treatment to promoting meaningful insurance coverage for patients to accelerating new cure. Cancer affects people all over our communities and all over the world. I want to do my part to help raise money and awareness about this disease, to help those around us tackle this challenge. Our campaign has the ability to make a massive difference in the lives of those around us, but we need your help! Our campaign will provide support to the critical work of LLS in hopes that one day no one will have to grow up without the ones they love. I know that with your help, we can reach our goal and make a direct impact in the fight against blood cancers. There are several ways to make your tax-deductible contribution by March 8th, 2025:

● Make a contribution online by visiting our campaign website:

https://events.lls.org/noh/svoynoh25/AKraus

Mail your tax-deductible contribution to me at 2821 Crystalwood Drive, Broadview Heights, Ohio, 44147. Please make checks payable to “The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society” and print Alayne Kraus in the memo section.

All donations received will support LLS’s overall mission to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families. I thank you in advance for partnering with a campaign so close to my heart, and please remember, every bit counts.

Thank you for your generosity!

Alayne Kraus

Visionaries look to the future—and see infinite possibility.
They challenge the status quo—and make the impossible possible.
They boldly imagine a better world – and lead the charge to create it.

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society was built on that same vision - of a better world - one without blood cancers.

I am a visionary; I have a vision for a world without cancer, but I need your help.

This year, I’m proud to be a part of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) Student Visionaries of the Year Campaign, working to raise as much as possible for LLS’s mission.

As a global leader in the fight against blood cancer, LLS:

• Funds cutting-edge research leading to breakthroughs in immunotherapy, genomics and personalized medicine that are improving and saving the lives of patients
• Provides free education and support for blood cancer patients and families, including personalized, one-on-one support, assistance with identifying and enrolling in clinical trials, and more.
• Mobilizes thousands of advocates to drive policy changes that accelerate the development of new cancer treatments and break down barriers to care.

Please consider joining this fight by making a donation. All donations are greatly appreciated and tax-deductible. Please visit my website often and tell friends who would also like to donate!

Thanks to your support, my efforts will help ensure this generation is the last to see cancer.

On behalf of blood cancer patients everywhere, thank you!

For more information about LLS, please visit www.lls.org.