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Gap’s Give & Get Campaign supports cancer research

July 27th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Fundraising Events, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

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Download a Coupon for 30% Off with 5% going to LLS

Leukemia survivor, Lance Bigelow, is someone who knows first-hand the importance of Gap’s Give & Get program benefiting The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS). He participated in the spring campaign. Lance and his family knew that taking advantage of the Give & Get program’s 30% discount, they would also be contributing to LLS’ blood cancer research efforts, research that helps kids like Lance — research that fights the number one cancer among children.

Thanks to the efforts of families like the Bigelows, the spring campaign raised $600,000 for research to find a cure.

By participating in our summer campaign you can help blood cancer patients live longer, better lives — and look good doing it!

Then visit any Gap, Inc. store from July 30th to August 2nd to take advantage of the 30% discount offer. Please note that this offer is good from July 30th through August 2nd only! The Gap Give & Get coupon is good for purchases at any Gap, Inc. store, including Gap, Gap Outlet, Banana Republic, Banana Republic Factory Stores and Old Navy. The coupon is for in-store purchases only and is good in both the United States and Canada.

Remember, when you download a coupon for discounted clothes from this site you’re helping The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society fight the number one cancer among children. Send this page to your friends and family and help our cause even more!

more info: http://www.leukemia-lymphoma.org//all_page.adp?item_id=552506

Lance’s Story: http://community.lls.org/blogs/atlls/2009/07/27/licking-leukemia-with-lls-and-gap

Coupon (English): http://www.gapinc.com/giveandget/lls/

Coupon (French): http://www.gapinc.com/giveandget/fr/lls/

Source: LLS.org

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Tina Fey Announced as 2009 Light The Night Walk National Spokesperson

April 30th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Light The Night

tinafeyThe 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.

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Save money and lives – Shop GAP, Old Navy

March 9th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

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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.

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Light The Night – Doing Our Best to Make a Difference

September 28th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in Light The Night, Team Captains

All too often we hear too much negative in our lives. We hear about crime, financial troubles, and so on. You can go to your e-mail and read about the new virus going around… those silly e-mails telling you that if you don’t forward it, your computer is going to blow up. It all seems so negative.

However, I still feel great inside knowing that we are taking a part as a large team and spreading some good news for a change. We are less than $4,000 away from $1,000,000 earned! That is a HUGE milestone! Something that we have been working hard on for the last 4 years!

It is truly amazing how a group of strangers can come together as a family and complete such a task. That is what Friends of Heroes is all about. We are a family…though many of us have never met. We are still linked together with a passion for a cure….the cure for cancer. We have grieved together, smiled together, and I know that there have been a few laughs in there as well.

You HAVE made a difference.

The first year that we started I looked at my fundraising and thought “I only made $50”….the dreaded word “only”. It should have been a positive “I made $50 and a HUGE difference”. Looking at it today, that $50 made us closer to a cure and to where our team is now.

As a team, I KNOW that we can make it well over $1,000,000! We just need that final push. We are all here to support each other. My five-year-old daughter gave me a quote to live by several months ago and I just keep repeating it when I feel discouraged “You know, just try your best because that is what we are made to do”. I know that we can do that. I know we can do our best. I can say this with all of my heart.

I hope in the near future, we won’t be here fighting for the cure for cancer, because we already helped find the cure! We will be here CELEBRATING the cure! But until that day, let’s stick together, fight for a cure and have fun in the process!

Written by Beck M.
Pictured above with Kelly, her Light The Night executive director, after receiving the Volunteer of the Year Award.

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Light The Night Walks – Week 1

September 3rd, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Light The Night

This weekend (Sept 5-7, 2008) we are sending a shout out to our friends up north! The following Light The Night walks will take place in:

State City Location Date
Alaska Anchorage Park Strip 09/05/08
Alaska Wasilla Iditipark 09/05/08
Illinois Lisle Lisle Community Park 09/06/08

It is not to late to join us! We need you! Register to walk with Friends of Heroes at http://teams.lightthenight.org/friendsofheroes

For a full list of Light The Night Walks, visit here.

Next week (Sept 10-14, 2008) we’ll be cheering for our walkers in 18 more cities:

State City Location Date
Alabama Hoover Hoover Met/Regions Park 09/11/08
Arizona Tucson Reid Park 09/13/08
California Los Angeles UCLA 09/14/08
Colorado Longmont Roosevelt Park 09/12/08
Illinois Chicago Grant Park 09/13/08
Kanasas Overland Park Corporate Woods 09/12/08
Kentucky Lexington Courthouse Plaza 09/13/08
Massachusetts Florence Look Memorial Park 09/14/08
Missiouri St. Louis Forest Park 09/12/08
Missiouri St. Peters St. Peters City Centre Park 09/12/08
Nebraska Lincoln Holmes Lake 09/11/08
Nevada Reno Wingfield Park 09/13/08
New Jersey Wildwood Wildwoods Convention Center 09/13/08
North Carolina Raleigh Raleigh 09/13/08
Oklahoma Jenks RiverWalk Crossing 09/13/08
Pennsylvania Lancaster Greenfield Corporate Center 09/10/08
Vermont Burlington ECHO at Leahy Center for Lake Champlain 09/12/08
Wisonsin Milwaukee O’Donnell Park 09/11/08

Remember – you can raise money until November (even after your walk is over)!

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