Tessa's Students of the Year Fundraiser

Feb 12, 2021

Thank you for visiting my fundraising page, welcome!

My name is Tessa Uviedo and I am a junior at Keystone School. I am honored to say that The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) has nominated me as a candidate in their Student of the Year fundraising challenge, and I could not be more excited to make a difference in the lives of patients across the country. I am proud to lead my campaign team and work towards our goal to raise $35,000 during the next 7 weeks - from January 8, 2021, to February 27^, 2021.

 

Unfortunately, most of us know someone who has been affected by cancer. You might not know, but my grandfather, Charlie Cortinas, is a lymphoma survivor. He was diagnosed in 2012 but through the advances in blood cancer research was able to overcome the cancer. I chose to join this campaign to help others like my grandfather to win their fights. 

 

  

 

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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