LLS Woman of the Year honors go to Ann Cameron
Top honors went to Ann Cameron for the Man/Woman of the Year Campaign of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Eastern Pennsylvania & Delaware Region.
Breaking LLS Delaware’s record to raise $139,039, Cameron and her team will be granted the opportunity to choose, name and fund two $50,000 blood cancer research efforts to have a direct impact on finding the cure.
During the campaign, 15 individual nominees selected team members to assist them in raising funds in a spirited 10-week competition. Each team chooses its own individual fundraising methods.
Cameron dedicated her campaign on behalf of many loved ones who have lost their lives to blood cancer. She was particularly motivated by her desire to support her friend Bob Hughes of Rehoboth Beach, who is currently fighting multiple myeloma.
Cameron was nominated for this competition by Hughes’ wife, Margaret Colvin, who said she knew Cameron’s dynamic personality and competitive spirit would be the perfect combination to produce outstanding fundraising efforts. Cameron, Hughes and Colvin would all like to thank the local community which coalesced in support of Cameron’s team. It rose to the top of the fundraising charts not with large corporate donations, but through numerous smaller donations from family, friends and local small businesses. They said each donation and event felt like getting a big hug from the community.
In fact, unbeknownst to Cameron or her team at the final fundraising gala, Colvin was the recipient of the 2022 Man & Woman of the Year Community Involvement Award for facilitating high community engagement in their campaign. “She worked side by side with her candidate, rallying the cause and sharing her husband Bob’s story. She let everyone know that he is in the fight of his life, battling multiple myeloma, and how important it was to support LLS,” said Meg Malloy, LLS regional campaign development manager.
Every nine minutes, somebody in the U.S. dies of a blood cancer, and in today’s times of uncertainty, cancer patients need support more than ever. This year’s regional philanthropic competition raised $557,253 to fight blood cancer.
The funds raised through Man & Woman of the Year are used for research to advance lifesaving therapies like immunotherapy, genomics and personalized medicine; free blood cancer information, education and support for patients and families; and national and local advocacy efforts driving policies that accelerate new treatments and ensure patients have access to care so they can live longer, healthier lives.
To learn more about LLS’s goal of a world without blood cancer, go to lls.org and mwoy.org.
