This week, we are participating in the 50 State Challenge! Help us get donations from all 50 states by donating and telling your friends!

Thank you so much to everyone who has already donated! We are off to a great start! It's been a little over a week since kickoff, and we have some exciting things ahead. Pictured here are some of my team members and Skylar, who is LLS' local honored hero and currently in remission from Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia. Continue to let us know if your company matches gifts or if you are willing to donate a silent auction item. Scroll down to the first post to read more about our mission. Thanks! Go Team Monarch!  

I am honored to participate as a candidate for the 2019 Students of the Year program, a seven-week initiative in which select high school students from around the country participate in a fundraising competition to benefit The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. I am proud to support LLS and am raising critical dollars in honor of a young patient hero who is currently in remission from a blood cancer. Each dollar is a vote. I will be leading a team of my friends and family, and the team that raises the most money at the end of the seven weeks is named Student of the Year. 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. I am doing this because my grandma has Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, and I have seen first hand the assistance that LLS provides. Whether it is thorugh financial assistance, reasearch, or treatment therapies, LLS improves the quality of life of their patients and their families as they battle blood cancers. My team is named Team Monarch in honor of my grandma and her love for the monarch butterfly. With your help, we can beat blood cancer!

Since the early 1960s, five-year survival rates for many blood cancer patients have doubled, tripled or even quadrupled. And many LLS supported therapies not only help blood cancer patients but are helping patients with other cancers and serious diseases. In fact, drugs first approved for blood cancers are now approved to treat patients with stomach cancers, skin cancers, and autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis. 

We really are changing the face of blood cancer!

All donations are greatly appreciated and are tax deductible. They'll not only support LLS-funded research but will help provide critical information and support for patients, and support advocacy for laws to ensure patients can access the care and treatments they need.

Please visit our website often and bring 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.