Light The Night 2009 Walksites
02 years ago
by Jenn
in Light The Night
Friends of Heroes is a national Light the Night Friends and Family team for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society .
Register here: http://pages.lightthenight.org/2009/friendsofheroes
We are looking for individual walkers and other Light The Night teams to affiliate with us. Join us and become part of an amazing team!
If you live in or near one of the following cities, we’d love to have you become a team captain! To become a team captain or to walk for our team, click here or you can contact Team Captain Relations, at tcrelations@friendsofheroes.org
2009 Walksites & Dates
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Tina Fey Announced as 2009 Light The Night Walk National Spokesperson
12 years ago
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) is excited to announce that actress Tina Fey is lending her face and fame to help in the fight against blood cancers as the 2009 National Spokesperson for the LLS Light The Night Walk.
Tina Fey is an American writer, comedian, actress, and producer. She has won five Emmys, three Golden Globes, and three SAG Awards. Fey is best known for her work on Mean Girls, Saturday Night Live, her impersonation of Alaskan Governor and 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, and her work on 30 Rock, a situation comedy loosely based on her experiences at Saturday Night Live. Fey was also selected by Barbara Walters as one of America’s “10 most fascinating people of 2008.”
As National Spokesperson for the 2009 Light The Night Walk, Fey urges communities to “Walk the Talk” and join the fight against blood cancer through Light The Night Walks happening this fall across the country. “When you or someone you love has cancer, it can turn your world upside down and leave you in a dark and lonely place,” says Fey. “But there’s something you can do to bring light and hope to thousands of people battling blood cancers and their families. You can participate in Light The Night Walk and raise funds for lifesaving cancer research.”
Walks take place in communities across the U.S. and Canada, as walkers and teams of families, friends and co-workers come together for an evening overflowing with emotion and caring. The Light The Night Walk is open to the public. Teams and individuals are encouraged to pre-register and raise funds for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society throughout the summer months preceding the Walk. The funds will support vital life-saving research and patient services to support the nearly 900,000 Americans living with blood cancers.
More than a Walk, Light The Night includes music, entertainment, food and children’s activities for everyone to enjoy. Walkers carry illuminated balloons to spread awareness about the need to fund research to find a cure for blood cancer. Supporters carry red balloons, survivors carry white, and those who have lost a loved one to cancer carry a gold balloon in their memory. The event is supported by many local businesses who form Walk teams or offer corporate sponsorship. Corporate sponsorship and in-kind food donation packages that include a variety of marketing benefits are available. You can join Friends of Heroes and start making a difference today! For more information about the Light The Night Walk and how to participate, visit www.LightTheNight.org.
About The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Eastern N.C. Chapter serves patients battling leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma. The organization raises money to fund research leading to a cure for blood cancers and to enhance the quality of life for local patients through services such as family support groups, educational programs and financial assistance. Since its founding in 1949, LLS has invested more than $600 million in research specifically targeting leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma. For more information about The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, visit www.lls.org.
TAP Advancing Clinical Trials
02 years ago
by Jenn
in Announcements/News
The LLS Therapy Acceleration Program’s Academic Concierge Division continues to successfully leverage LLS research investments by helping select LLS-funded academic investigators move new therapies toward market approval. On April 22, 2009, LLS will present one of its Academic Concierge projects, headed by Principal Investigator Aaron D. Schimmer, F.R.C.P.C., M.D., Ph.D., Ontario Cancer Institute (shown here), at a meeting with Health Canada (the Canadian equivalent of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration) and discuss next steps toward opening a Phase I clinical trial. Barring any concerns from Health Canada, the program is on track to open LLS’s first AC Division clinical trial in the fall of 2009.
In conjunction with the LLS National Board of Directors meeting held March 13th in Newark, N.J., the Therapy Acceleration Program Governance Committee reviewed the progress of the Cleveland Clinic partnership in the Clinical Trials Program Division and approved a third LLS-supported trial to open at the Clinical Trial Center for Hematologic Malignancies. This Phase I/II trial will combine two approved therapies, Lenalidomide and Rituximab, for maintenance therapy following high-dose chemotherapy and autologous stem cell transplantation in patients with B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Also exciting is news that the Cleveland Clinic will utilize three of its community treatment centers when it becomes a trial site for LLS’s partner, Aegera Therapeutics, and the ongoing Phase I/II trial of a new drug (AEG35156). The Cleveland Clinic’s main campus and three regional hospital centers will begin recruiting patients with relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), small lymphocytic lymphoma or follicular lymphoma for treatment with Aegera’s AEG35156, that inhibits a molecule called X-Linked Inhibitor of Apoptosis (XIAP). This is a significant step toward LLS’s goal of enhancing access to clinical trials by “taking the trial to the patient.”
In order to leverage its successful clinical trial partnership with the Cleveland Clinic and to further address issues that currently limit clinical trial participation, LLS hosted a 1 1/2 day workshop this past February in San Francisco. Ron Levy, M.D., professor and chief, Division of Oncology at Stanford University, led discussions in which clinical trials experts reviewed ongoing models for early phase blood cancer treatment trials, including roles for-profit companies and government agencies can play, and considered how LLS can best use its resources to help increase participation in practice-changing trials. Workshop discussions provided many insights that will enable future partnerships for the LLS Clinical Trials Program.
Source: LLS.org (eNewsline)
Gap inc Give & Get for the Leukemia and Lymphoma society!
02 years ago
by BeckM
in Announcements/News
Save money with Gap Inc’s nationwide Give & Get coupon which will support The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS).
This Thursday March 12 -Sunday March 15 – Gap Inc‘s 30% discount coupons will also provide a 5% donation (of LLS coupon-holders’ net purchases) to LLS.
Send this today, to all your friends and families. Forward this email or copy this URL and pass it on. http://www.gapgiveandget.com/np/lls.html
Gap Inc stores include: Gap, Banana Republic and Old Navy. The coupons are for in-store purchases only and they are good in both the USA and Canada.
Simply go to the Give & Get coupon page, print a coupon and go shopping. You can print as many as you need, to shop at different Gap Inc stores.
Save money and lives – Shop GAP, Old Navy
02 years ago
Gap’s Give & Get Program – It’s Money in the Bank !!
We have 3 (THREE) days to save money with Gap Inc’s nationwide Give & Get coupon which will support LLS – and the Central California chapter directly. The funds generated will be zip-coded and attributed back to the related chapters, so the more your people shop, the more your chapter will make!
This Thursday March 12 -Sunday March 15 – Gap Inc‘s 30% discount coupons will also provide a 5% donation (of LLS coupon-holders’ net purchases) to LLS.
Send this link today, to all your donors, friends and families. Simply copy this URL and pass it on. http://www.gapgiveandget.com/np/lls.html
Gap Inc stores include: Gap, Banana Republic and Old Navy. The coupons are for in-store purchases only and they ARE good in both the USA and Canada.
Simply go to the Give & Get coupon page, print a coupon and go shopping. Share the link as widely as you wish. You can print as many as you need, to shop at different Gap Inc stores.
Looking for some team leaders
02 years ago
by BeckM
in Announcements/News
Have you always wanted to help out behind the scenes of Friends of Heroes? Do you think that you can contribute to our 2009 Friends of Heroes team? If so, we are looking for you! We are looking for members who are willing to help us with out 2009 planning efforts. Please send us a letter of interest to teamleaders@friendsofheroes.org
Please include the areas that you feel you are strongest at, such as social relations (myspace, facebook, twitter, etc), technical, fundraising, organizational, or just about anything you feel will help out our team as a whole.
