Welcome to our Hike for Discovery home page.
All of us have been touched by cancer in some way. Many of us have lost loved ones to this disease or know of someone who has successfully fought it.
The sad news: every 9 minutes someone loses their life to blood cancers. They kill more children than any other disease.
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) is the world's largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research, education, and patient services. The Society's mission: Cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families. Funding from LLS has resulted in the development of treatments that have tripled leukemia survival rates over that last 40 years!
This June, we will be taking part in the Society’s Hike for Discovery program. Hike for Discovery is one of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s nonprofit endurance training programs designed to raise money for funding blood cancer research. We are training to complete a 17-mile, 4800 ft vertical ascent over Yosemite National Park’s Half Dome Trail. Though we can spend hours training to do the hike, we need your help in reaching our fundraising goal of $4500. This is where, we're hoping, you come in.
Please help by making a 100% tax deductible donation! At least 75 cents of every dollar goes directly toward finding the cure!
Much love,
Justin & Bethany
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The Power of Your Money
$ 1000 supports one week’s salary for a medical researcher at Emory who may discover key information to developing curative treatments for blood cancers.
$ 500 provides a patient with leukemia, lymphoma or myeloma with patient aid to support medical treatment and to travel to medical appointments for one year.
$ 500 allows 10 patients to logon to a webcast and hear the latest information in treatment for their disease.
$ 200 provides a Family Support Group Program for one year.
$ 150 allows 5 patients to make a First Connection with a trained peer volunteer.
$ 100 provides 3 patients access to an informational teleconference.
$ 75 is the average cost of tissue typing to become a bone marrow donor.
$ 50 is the cost of a CT scan.
$ 40 is the cost of sending a comprehensive packet of information for children with cancer.
$ 35 pays for transportation expenses for a patient living in Northern California’s most rural areas to treatment at a comprehensive cancer center.
$ 25 covers a single prescription co-payment.
$ 5 is the cost of sending a newly diagnosed patient packet which includes information about their specific disease and support.
