It’s official: I reached my $10,000 fundraising goal for LIVESTRONG at 10:30 last night! Now it’s time climb Kilimanjaro with Survivor Summit to fight cancer. I’m very happy to be doing my part to help others. $10,000 is a lot of money, and I’m grateful for the support from so many wonderful people and organizations. Thanks to everyone for donating to such a great cause. This couldn’t have come at a better time; I leave next Saturday for the the charity expedition!
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Thanks to all my supporters who helped make my climb up Kilimanjaro to fight cancer a reality. Right now, my online fundraising total reads, “$9.934.41,” and there’s a $100 check in the mail that’s going to be a part of that total soon. I can’t wait for the online total to update and reflect this amazing milestone. We made it; I can’t believe it! THANK YOU again to everyone!
With over 100 different donations, this has truly been a grassroots effort. Donations to this cause will support cancer programs and services at LIVESTRONG. At the same time, this constant outpouring of generosity has also helped me meet the $10,000 fundraising requirement to participate in the climb.
I remember from my Texas 4000 ride how often I thought of my supporters. I’d think about their words of encouragement and stories about loved ones who had fought cancer, and all those memories helped make riding through terrible heat, crosswinds, and cold worth it. I’ll be sure to think of all my supporters and their stories when I begin the 38 mile trek to head 19,341 high in altitude. I still can’t believe that it’s so soon; I leave June 23 on a plane bound for Tanzania, and the official summit day is July 2. I hope I make it to the top, so I can honor everyone.
Thanks for helping to make the lives of cancer fighters and survivors a little easier through access to LIVESTRONG’s premiere programs and services. Today, I climb for everyone who has supported this charitable endeavor.
And just so you know: because you all will be in my mind, you’ll be making the trek up the mountain with me, too. I can’t wait to have all of you with me at the top :)
$9,724.41 raised, with an extra $100 check in the mail = I AM SO CLOSE to REACHING the $10,000 minimum fundraising requirement to climb Kilimanjaro to fight cancer! All my gear is ready to go and I’ve bought my plane tickets. Now it’s time to knock this fundraising goal out once and for all and help survivors and fighters as much as I can. Please donate to the climb, which supports cancer programs and services at LIVESTRONG!
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My 28th birthday is coming up in a few weeks, and you’d better believe that it would make me so happy to complete my $10,000 fundraising goal for cancer programs and services at LIVESTRONG. The only gifts I’m thinking about to mark this special day are donations to support this cause.
In honor of my upcoming birthday, please consider donating $28 for the 28 million people around the world living with cancer today. Your gift helps me get closer to the minimum amount required to do my charity climb. And more importantly: your donation also helps fighters and survivors take serious action against cancer.
I can’t wait to climb Kilimanjaro to honor new and old friends, family, and loved ones who have faced this disease with courage, strength, and hope. Help me meet the minimum fundraising requirement with plenty of time to spare before I leave for Africa!
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Well, an email I just got in my inbox says that our $10,000 minimum fundraising requirement with Survivor Summit is due in less than 2.5 weeks by June 15. I’m $675 away from this important goal.
So please donate if you are able! You won’t just be helping me meet the requirement to climb Kilimanjaro, you’ll be supporting LIVESTRONG’s programs and services for cancer fighters and survivors everywhere.
I hope one of the next updates I can make is that I made the fundraising goal! Thanks so much to everyone for the support so far!
I’m taking off for Tanzania on June 23 to go climb a little mountain called Kilimanjaro, so I can help take down an even bigger challenge: fighting against cancer, which 1 in 2 men and 1 in 3 women will develop in his or her lifetime. Money donated to my climb benefits LIVESTRONG’s cancer programs and services—which aids fighters, survivors, and caregivers in making informed decisions about important obstacles, such as treatment, fertility, medical bills, and life after cancer.
I’m less than $780 away from meeting my $10,000 minimum fundraising requirement. Help me finish up my fundraising in time to go hike for a great cause! Click “donate” on the right side of the screen, or visit my personal fundraising page. And spread the word to anyone you think might be able to help—no donation is too small!
I’m definitely over the hump of the work week, as well as over the hump of my fundraising requirement. In fact, I’m up to over $9,100 fundraised for LIVESTRONG! That’s not too far to go until I meet the $10,000 fundraising total to climb Kilimanjaro with an awesome and inspiring Survivor Summit 2012 team. I’m almost at the summit of this fundraising mountain, and I would love to have your help with these last $900!
Thanks so much to everyone for the kind donations so far. With each passing day, I’m getting more and more ready to take on this 19,341 foot challenge. I hope that the fundraising and awareness generated from my climb will help make the lives of cancer fighters, survivors, and caregivers a little easier with support from LIVESTRONG’s incredible cancer programs and services.
Only six weeks left until I take off for Tanzania to climb Kilimanjaro! I’ve bought my plane tickets, my immunizations are done, almost all my gear has arrived, and most importantly, my $10,000 minimum fundraising requirement for cancer programs and services at LIVESTRONG is in sight.
The next high priority items on my long list of things to do before I leave are: keep training; break in my hiking boots; fill my malaria and altitude sickness medications at the pharmacy; and make sure I have photos to process my Tanzanian visa when I arrive at JRO.
Needless to say, these last few weeks are going to fly by, and I’ll be standing on African soil soon! If you want to help me cross “fundraising” off my to do list, click “donate” on the right side of my blog, or visit my personal fundraising page.
Every day, I’m getting closer to climbing Kilimanjaro to raise money for cancer programs and services at LIVESTRONG. Since losing my grandmother, college mentor, and uncle—and watching so many people take on this disease—I feel like the least I can do is try to make the lives of survivors a little easier by going on this adventure.
Last night, I was fortunate enough to hold an event and raise some more money for this cause. But the deadline for my fundraising goal is coming up and I still need to finish what I started back on January 15. So please donate in honor or memory of a loved one, and I’ll be honored to climb for them. With less than 45 days to go, your support would mean a lot to me!
Lisa's reflections on summitting Kilimanjaro and raising over $10,000 for cancer programs and services at LIVESTRONG.
