Working Badger Concessions for LLS

This weekend was packed with UW sporting events! On Saturday La Follette volunteers worked concessions at the Nielsen Center for the Division 1 National Men's Team Indoor Championship. Then on Sunday we scooped loads of ice cream at the Kohl Center for the Badger Women's Hockey game against Ohio State. Our efforts paid off! A portion of the proceeds from these two busy events will support our campaign for LLS.

Welcome to the La Follette High School fundraising page! We are thrilled to be a part of 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. 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.

This team is made up of a dedicated group of La Follette students and teachers, led by candidate Mina Linsenmayer. The team, Mina's Miracles, has a 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. As teenagers ourselves, this issue hits close to home. 

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.