Students of the Year Madison
Grace Cooper | Battle with Grace
Welcome to Grace Cooper's SOY Fundraising Page!
Last year I was talking with my Phy Ed teacher, Mr. Diercks, about my future goals and career aspirations. He remembered this conversation that we had when he heard about the LLS Students of the Year Campaign. Mr. Diercks nominated me to participate as a candidate for the 2020 campaign, and I am so glad that he did! The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society is such a great organization that is working really hard to find a cure for blood cancer and provide support for everybody involved in the battle with cancer. I decided in 8th grade that I wanted to be a doctor, and since then, my goal to become a pediatric oncologist hasn't wavered. I want to work with kids, because I know that it is so much harder for kids to go through cancer. Kids don't understand what is happening to their bodies and thier blood cells. Imagine going through treatment and going in and out of the hospital due to cancer when you are a child. It is so hard to think about what would be going through their minds. In the future, I want to be there for kids as more than just their doctor. I want to give them emotional support and help them feel safe when they are going through their treatments and fighting this terrible, scary disease. I want to help kids with cancer feel love and support from their medical community. I am so thankful that I have this opportunity to start making a difference in the world of cancer. I want to be a part of finding the cure to cancer someday, and this is just the beginning of my journey!
Noah and Grace
Welcome to Grace Cooper's SOY Fundraising Page!
I am honored to participate as a candidate for the 2020 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 raise support and critical funds in honor of our honored hero, 7 year old Noah Sanger who has a couple months left of treatment from leukemia. Each dollar is a vote. The candidate 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.
Since the early 1960s, five-year survival rates for many blood cancer patients have doubled, tripled or even quadrupled. 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.
7 Comments
Regan Bush
Keep up the great work toward finding a cure, Grace!
Joann Nowka
Wishing much success as you follow your passion and dream!
Keith Hampton
Good work, Grace!
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Peggy Atkins
Love you Grace.. granny and grandpa Atkins.
diana m hutchinson
Thank you for letting me be a part of this, Grace!
Ben Temeyer
GOOD LUCK GRACE!