“Blogging for Blood Cancer” Event Brings Bloggers Together for a Cure

(Princeton, NJ)  The first annual “Blogging for Blood Cancer” event will take place from August 11-18, 2008.  This first time event will bring bloggers from across the United States together to raise awareness for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and its mission to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.  

The event is being hosted by Goodies for Mom (http://www.goodiesformom.com) in conjunction with the Friends of Heroes National Light The Night Team (http://www.friendsofheroes.org).  Bloggers will be posting on their blogs throughout the event about the importance of the LLS mission and share personal stories of those they have come to know who have been affected by blood cancer.  All bloggers participating will be entered to win prizes donated by event sponsors.  Visitors to the Goodies for Mom and Friends of Heroes blogs will also have opportunities to win as they learn more about the importance of LLS’s  research and patient services in the fight against blood cancer.

Thank you to the “Blogging for Blood Cancer” Event Sponsors: (A list of sponsors/donors to be included here)

·         Blue Top Hat

·         Goodies for Mom

·         Sara Rose Tutus

·         Susan Murphy, Inc.

About Goodies for Mom

Goodies for Mom is a blog designed to highlight new innovative products, contests, news, and articles that are of interest to moms. Both new and experienced mothers will find something of interest.  For more information, visit http://www.goodiesformom.com/.

About Friends of Heroes (FOH)
Friends of Heroes (FOH), formerly Friends of Allie, is the first and largest national Friends and Family Team for Light The Night Walk to benefit The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. FOH  has enlarged its scope to include affiliate teams—both corporate and Friends and Family teams—who share their passion for finding a cure for pediatric blood cancers and making a difference in the lives of families stricken by pediatric blood cancer. Their tagline is “Putting a Face on Childhood Cancer.”  Since August 2004, FOH has raised over $960,000 in support of LLS’s mission.  The team’s overall goal for 2008 is to bring its team grand total to one million dollars raised in just over 4 years. For more information, please visit:  www.friendsofheroes.org 

About The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, headquartered in White Plains, NY, with 68 chapters in the United States and Canada, is the world’s largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research and providing 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. Since its founding in 1949, the Society has invested more than $600 million in research specifically targeting leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma. Last year alone, the Society made 5.1 million contacts with patients, caregivers and healthcare professionals.

Light The Night Walk is The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s nationwide annual evening fundraising walk, held each fall to celebrate and commemorate people whose lives have been touched by cancer. Light The Night is open to all—it does not require a particular level of fitness. In 2007, thousands of people in approximately 230 communities in the United States and Canada participated in a Light The Night Walk event, raising nearly $39 million for research and patient services.

For more information about blood cancer, visit www.LLS.org or call the LLS Information Resource Center (IRC), a call center staffed by master’s level social workers, nurses and health educators who provide information, support and resources to patients and their families and caregivers. IRC information specialists are available at (800) 955-4572, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. ET.

Contact:
Lois Whittaker
National Team Co-Captain
609-844-1061
lois@friendsofheroes.org