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INDIVIDUAL AND MAJOR GIVING

Show Your Love

This February, LRF supporters came together to show their love for lymphoma patients by raising $61,000 as part of the Foundation’s annual Show Your Love campaign. The funds raised help to power LRF’s Patient Aid Grant program, which is funded entirely by individual donors and provides critical assistance to patients struggling with financial toxicity caused by costs related to cancer care. This year’s gifts were made even more impactful when they were matched by a generous group of LRF donors, helping twice as many lymphoma patients offset costs related to their treatment, ensuring no patient has to choose between paying for basic necessities or receiving life-saving care.

National Cancer Survivors Day

On June 5, LRF celebrated lymphoma survivors and thrivers as part of National Cancer Survivors Day (NCSD). Our community joined us in celebration by raising over $12,000 to aid with cutting-edge research and critical resources for survivors and patients. This year, we also saw LRF donors becoming champions for survivors by starting their own NCSD fundraising campaigns using our peer-to-peer fundraising platform.

Donor Support

LRF’s patient support and education programs, in addition to the Early Career Research Grant program, are all made possible by donations from private supporters. When you give to the LRF, you are investing in the most promising research that has the greatest potential to improve the lives of those impacted by lymphoma, dramatically.

LRF was proud to establish the Kanti R. Rai, MD Clinical Scholar program for CLL research, in 2022, in recognition of Dr. Rai’s global leadership in the field and his commitment to LRF’s mission. Dr. Kanti Rai has been a global leader in the field of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) research for more than four decades. Elected to the LRF Scientific Advisory Board in 2007, Dr. Rai has helped to shape the LRF’s research portfolio and mentor the next generation of CLL clinicians and scientists. More than $650,000 has been raised in Dr. Rai’s name since announcing this initiative.

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