Cold Spring Harbor, NY - April 12, 2017 - The Long Island Chapter of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) has announced Lina Gottesman of Altus Metal, Marble & Wood as the Corporate Walk Chair, Jan Gunther of Lantern Investments as Executive Challenge Chair, Debra Milano of Perfumania as Executive Leadership Committee Chair and Glen Wolther of All Round Foods as Presenting Sponsor and host of Corporate Breakfast of its 2017 Light The Night®, LLS’s annual fundraising event held each fall to find cures and provide access to treatments for blood cancer patients. This executive team will lead the effort in accelerating corporate support and driving revenue growth for Light The Night to support LLS’s ultimate goal of creating a world without blood cancers.
Light The Night is a fundraising campaign benefiting LLS and their funding of research to find blood cancer cures. Coming together for a common goal, friends, family and co-workers form fundraising walk teams. Millions of consumers also help by donating at retail outlets. Culminating in inspiration and memorable evening walks every fall, participants in 150 communities across North America join together carrying illuminated lanterns to take steps to end cancer – white for survivors, red for supporters and gold in memory of loved ones lost to cancer.
Companies interested in participating are invited to learn more at the Corporate Breakfast, hosted by All Round Foods, to be held at Cold Spring Country Club on Tuesday, May 9th from 7:30am-9am. RSVP to Jaclyn Sturtevant at 631.370.7537 or jaclyn.sturtevant@lls.org.
“I am honored to serve as the Corporate Walk Chair and look forward to encouraging local businesses and corporations to join me in supporting The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society by participating in Light The Night,” said Gottesman, LLS’s Long Island Chapter Light The Night Chair. “Together, we are taking steps to end cancer.”
This year, the Walk will be held on Saturday, October 21st at Eisenhower Park.
“When a loved one hears the words “you have cancer,” it is one of the darkest moments in your life,” said Sara Lipsky, LLS Executive Director. “At Light The Night, it is our aim to bring light to the darkness of cancer through research and cures, and reinforce the urgent need to raise more funds to fight cancer.”
LLS is the world’s largest voluntary health agency dedicated to finding cures for leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma and other blood cancers. Through its efforts it has invested more than $1 billion in cutting-edge research to advance therapies. Thanks to research, survival rates for patients with many blood cancers have doubled, tripled and even quadrupled since the early 1960s. Yet, despite these advances, about one third of patients with blood cancer still do not survive even five years after their diagnosis.
To become part of the Light The Night family, contact the Long Island Chapter at (631) 370-7540, or www.lightthenight.org/li.
About The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society ® (LLS) is the world's largest voluntary health agency dedicated to blood cancer. The LLS mission: Cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families. LLS funds lifesaving blood cancer research around the world, provides free information and support services, and is the voice for all blood cancer patients seeking access to quality, affordable, coordinated care.
Founded in 1949 and headquartered in Rye Brook, NY, LLS has chapters throughout the United States and Canada. To learn more, visit www.LLS.org. Patients should contact the Information Resource Center at (800) 955-4572, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. ET.
Long Island Chapter is located at 3 Huntington Quadrangle, Suite 202S, Melville, NY 11749. (631) 370-7530