This past year, my mother was diagnosed with lymphoma. On top of her pre-existing poor health conditions, she has to deal with this life-threatening disease. Thankfully, she is being treated and doing well so far with the help of research from The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), the world's largest nonprofit fighting blood cancer.

LLS has a program called Students of the Year, a seven-week fundraising campaign that lasts from February 4th-March 26th. I have been nominated as a 2021 candidate. My team, Race to the Cure, and I are working extremely hard to reach our fundraising goal of $15,000 so that I can help people like my mother.

In order to reach our goal and positively impact the lives of millions, we need you!

I am asking for your support of our team by making a generous donation to LLS via my fundraising website. All donations are 100% tax-deductible!

Why LLS you might ask? LLS has invested $1.3 BILLION into cancer research. In the last decade, over 40% of the cancer treatments and drugs came from LLS funded research, which is not only being used to treat blood cancer patients, but also those affected by other cancers and diseases, such as breast and liver cancers, Multiple sclerosis, and Alzheimer’s disease.

Like The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Team Race to The Cure is dedicated to finding a cure! I know that with your help, I can reach my goal and make a direct impact in the fight against blood cancers. Thank you very much for your generosity and joining us in making an impact!

There are two ways to make your contribution by March 26nd, 2021:

• Mail your tax-deductible contribution: Please make a check payable to “The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society” and print your name in the Memo section.

• You can also make a contribution online through this campaign website

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.

As a global leader in the fight to end cancer, LLS is committed to doing more for blood cancer patients and families than any organization in the world. LLS’s signature fundraising campaigns drive critical support for its mission, including a nearly $1.3 billion investment in cutting edge cancer research worldwide since it was founded in 1949. Since the 1960s, survival rates for many blood cancer patients have doubled, tripled, or even quadrupled.

Every facet of LLS’s mission – research, education and support, and policy and advocacy – work in harmony to put blood cancer patients and their families first. LLS has helped millions impacted by cancer throughout its more than 70-year history, even funding breakthrough blood cancer research to advance lifesaving treatments and cures that is now helping patients with other cancers and diseases. That is why at LLS we say that beating cancer is in our blood.

Please visit my website as often as you can and share it with everyone you know who would also like to join us in the fight against cancer. Together, we have the power, the passion and the resolve to achieve a world without blood cancer. All donations are tax-deductible.

On behalf of cancer patients and their families everywhere, I sincerely thank you for your support!

For more information about LLS, please visit lls.org

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