Team Nichols

-Andrew Nichols

Dear Friends and Family,  

This year, I am honored to be nominated as a candidate for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s 2019 Student of the Year Campaign. 

The Student of the Year campaign is a seven-week fundraising competition to raise money to support LLS. The Mission of LLS is to find a cure for blood cancers and improve the quality of life of patients and their families through research, access to drugs, and advocacy. In 2017 alone, LLS funded 15 of the 18 FDA approved treatments and funded 227 research grants. This mission is dear to our family, and I am excited to be taking this challenge and doing my part to make a difference supporting a cause that is bigger than myself. 

Team Nichols, my fundraising team, and I have great ambitions to raise $35,000 with your help and support. We desire to make blood cancer a thing of the past!

I am passionate about this campaign because in August 2014, the day before I entered middle school, my mom was diagnosed with a rare form of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (also known as ALL) Her cancer required 2½years of aggressive treatment at MD Anderson. My mom’s battle with Leukemia deeply affected our family and every aspect of our lives. The only reason my mother is in alive and in remission is due to medical research breakthroughs and her clinical trial drug Ponatinib that she will take every day for the rest of her life. This breakthrough drug has been possible due to the help of LLS funding research. This campaign will help raise funds to pursue more research and develop more ways to save lives like my mom. Best of all, it gives our family and support system a chance to use our unfortunate experience to impact others in a way that offers hope and one day finds a cure for blood cancers! 

This is how you can help me! Make a tax-deductible donation by click on “Donate Today”. 

Over a million Americans are living with blood cancer and every three minutes someone is diagnosed.  Every nine minutes, someone dies from blood cancer. It doesn’t have to be like this. Every dollar is a step closer to finding the cure. Every dollar counts. Every dollar I raise goes directly to LLS in support of its longstanding mission.

Aside from donations, we would love to hear from you or someone you know who would be willing to donate goods or services for auction items, sponsorships, donation matching opportunities, tickets/tables to the Grand Finale on Friday, March 1^st at the Junior League in Houston, or other possible fundraising opportunities. 

Thank you in advance for supporting Team Nichols. I am looking forward to sharing my journey for the next 7 weeks through our Facebook page @TeamNicholsLLS and seeing the possibilities of my team making an impact on this terrible disease. On behalf of all blood cancer patients and families everywhere, thank you so much for your love and support!

Until there is a cure,