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POINTS EARNED
POINTS EARNED
Christine's Charitable Life
CROWDRISE ROYALTY
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Christine
SAYS...
Thanks to all who helped us raise $37,000 to fund LLS research into rare lymphomas.
via Crowdrise 12 months ago
CROWDRISE MEMBER SINCE: May 17, 2010
HOME: Santa Ana, CA, United States
ROCK PAPER OR SCISSORS: Paper
HOME: Santa Ana, CA, United States
ROCK PAPER OR SCISSORS: Paper
STUFF ABOUT ME:
I'm the oldest and only girl of five children. In May 2008, my youngest brother, Matt, was diagnosed with Epstein Barr Virus induced hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (EBV-HLH), a rare blood disorder, and that disease triggered the onset of Matt’s NK T-Cell lymphoma one month later. Feeling there was little I could do to help Matt physically battle the disease, I looked for other ways to help support him and make a difference in the fight against blood cancers. I found that one of Matt’s heroes, Andrew McMahon, the driving force behind the band Jack’s Mannequin and a leukemia survivor, was encouraging his fans to walk on Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) Light the Night teams throughout the country. I became the captain of the Orange County Jack’s Mannequin LTN walk team, and with help from Matt, my parents, our brothers Eric, Scott, and David, their wives, in-laws, children, extended family, old friends and new friends, we raised over $17,000 for Light the Night in 2008. In 2009, we raised over $33,000 to fight blood cancers and were the top OC LTN fund raising team.
On October 3, 2009, after a year and a half battle, we lost Matt to EBV-HLH and NK T-Cell lymphoma. Since Matt died, my family and I have renewed our determination to raise funds and awareness to fight against and find a cure for EBV-HLH and NK T-Cell lymphoma. This year I am captaining a new team formed in Matt’s honor, Mother of All T-Cell Takedowns (MATT), and we are looking for new and innovative ways to raise money for Light the Night and EBV research, and we think that Crowdrise might just be it.
Please donate what you can...I've seen what blood cancer can do, and we really need to stop it.
WHY YOU SHOULD VOTE FOR ME:
If you vote for me, and by chance I get enough points to actually win something, I will not keep it. I will auction it off and donate the money to LLS, regardless of whether it's a macbook, a shower cap or the original napkin featured on the home page. I'm not in this for me...I'm in it for all of the people like my brother who have the courage to fight blood cancer with grace and dignity, never asking why they got sick but simply persevering and doing what they can to kick cancer's ass and make things better for the next patient. Although he may have lost the battle, Matt lives on...we've raised $50000 in the past two years in honor of him, and we are going to raise at least that much this year in his memory.
Thanks so much for reading this.
I'm the oldest and only girl of five children. In May 2008, my youngest brother, Matt, was diagnosed with Epstein Barr Virus induced hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (EBV-HLH), a rare blood disorder, and that disease triggered the onset of Matt’s NK T-Cell lymphoma one month later. Feeling there was little I could do to help Matt physically battle the disease, I looked for other ways to help support him and make a difference in the fight against blood cancers. I found that one of Matt’s heroes, Andrew McMahon, the driving force behind the band Jack’s Mannequin and a leukemia survivor, was encouraging his fans to walk on Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) Light the Night teams throughout the country. I became the captain of the Orange County Jack’s Mannequin LTN walk team, and with help from Matt, my parents, our brothers Eric, Scott, and David, their wives, in-laws, children, extended family, old friends and new friends, we raised over $17,000 for Light the Night in 2008. In 2009, we raised over $33,000 to fight blood cancers and were the top OC LTN fund raising team.
On October 3, 2009, after a year and a half battle, we lost Matt to EBV-HLH and NK T-Cell lymphoma. Since Matt died, my family and I have renewed our determination to raise funds and awareness to fight against and find a cure for EBV-HLH and NK T-Cell lymphoma. This year I am captaining a new team formed in Matt’s honor, Mother of All T-Cell Takedowns (MATT), and we are looking for new and innovative ways to raise money for Light the Night and EBV research, and we think that Crowdrise might just be it.
Please donate what you can...I've seen what blood cancer can do, and we really need to stop it.
WHY YOU SHOULD VOTE FOR ME:
If you vote for me, and by chance I get enough points to actually win something, I will not keep it. I will auction it off and donate the money to LLS, regardless of whether it's a macbook, a shower cap or the original napkin featured on the home page. I'm not in this for me...I'm in it for all of the people like my brother who have the courage to fight blood cancer with grace and dignity, never asking why they got sick but simply persevering and doing what they can to kick cancer's ass and make things better for the next patient. Although he may have lost the battle, Matt lives on...we've raised $50000 in the past two years in honor of him, and we are going to raise at least that much this year in his memory.
Thanks so much for reading this.
$32,299
$ RAISED
DONATIONS
| lauren higgins | $21 |
| Bradley Gillespie | $30 |
| Elise Marie Myrvang Eikeland | $5 |
| Vicky Stiles | $25 |
| Kathy & Sunny Dory | $500 |
| Anonymous | $10 |
| Jaime Haughey | $10 |
| Sandra Sellani | $20 |
| Brenda Cotnoir | $10 |
| Shawna Ogden | $60 |
| Jasmin Henke | $6 |
| Linda and Zac Lee Beck | $24 |
| Patrick Webb | $10 |
| Constant... Tselios | $10 |
| Jim Stinson | $150 |
| Marion & Gerhard Triebel | $10 |
| Constant... L. Trela | $100 |
| Anonymous | $55 |
| Aunt Dot | $50 |
| Maximus Decimus | $25 |
| Michael Morris | $15 |
| Michael Morris | $15 |
| Jerome Van Husen | $11 |
| Jerome Van Husen | $29 |
| Christine Cwiertny | $47 |
| Allyson | $31 |
| Michele Cwiertny | $31 |
| Adam DeAngelis | $10 |
| Michael Maxsenti | $50 |
| Lidia Lopez | $20 |
| Anonymous | $25 |
| Ray McIntosh | $100 |
| Anonymous | $25 |
| Christine Murphy | $10 |
| Anonymous | $10 |
| Allyson Miller | $10 |
| James | $50 |
| Jerome Van Husen | $31 |
| BethAnn Bonner | $15 |
| Samantha Willis | $10 |
| Carlo Garcia | $10 |
| Kasia Januszew... | $10 |
| Bala Kolluru | $11 |
| Michele and Eric Cwiertny | $15 |
| Michele and Eric Cwiertny | $29 |
| Michele and Eric Cwiertny | $99 |
| Adrianne Wonnacott | $99 |
| Elise Marie Myrvang Eikeland | $20 |
| Brenda Cotnoir | $11 |
| lauren higgins | $40 |
| Adrianne Wonnacott | $11 |
| Jasmin Henke | $10 |
| Marc Viloria | $25 |
| Maximus | $25 |
| Mary Frank | $11 |
| Samantha Willis | $11 |
| Jaime Haughey | $24 |
| Jenna Roy | $11 |
| Valerie | $10 |
| Offline Donations | $576 |
| Offline Donations | $12,318 |
| Offline Donations | $521 |
| Offline Donations | $628 |
| Offline Donations | $313 |
| Offline Donations | $36 |
| Offline Donations | $60 |
| Offline Donations | $3,367 |
| Joshua Beatty | $50 |
| KELLY STEPHENSON | $20 |
| Chick-Fi... | $374 |
| Christine Hernandez | $240 |
| Evan Law Group | $100 |
| Michele and Eric Cwiertny | $50 |
| Adrianne Wonnacott | $25 |
| Elise Marie Myrvang Eikeland | $15 |
| Anonymous | $10 |
| Tiffany Lowe | $50 |
| Najia Arrihani | $10 |
| Jenna Roy | $11 |
| Jasmin H | $10 |
| Bala Kolluru | $10 |
| Evan Cwiertny | $99 |
| Ed Ludwig | $25 |
| Jerome Van Husen | $50 |
| Jerome Van Husen | $29 |
| Sandra Sellani | $20 |
| Elise Marie Myrvang Eikeland | $15 |
| Michele and Eric Cwiertny | $11 |
| Michele and Eric Cwiertny | $16 |
| Carol Williams | $25 |
| Samantha Willis | $35 |
| Samantha Willis | $25 |
| Jaimes Thorpe | $11 |
| Tiffany Lowe | $20 |
| Bala Kolluru | $10 |
| Can, bottle & book recycling | $228 |
| Bowling for Matt | $1,070 |
| Najia Arrihani | $11 |
| Jasmin H | $11 |
| Bala Kolluru | $11 |
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Happy February, Crowdrise friend! Thank you for your support, through your donations, votes, advocacy and friendliness. You probably know all about the amazing promos that CR runs. Right now, I think the most awesome is the chance to win an iPad 2. Every time you donate $26, you are entered to win.
Your $26 donation to a Reader to Reader project would help us send 2 boxes full of books to an under-resourced library here in the states, or support special education in the DR, or get a women's school built in Nigeria, or get books to families in transition... there are plenty of choices and who knows, you might get lucky!
Happy reading,
Kat
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint.... What I began by reading, I must finish by acting. ~Henry David Thoreau