UFCW members all across the country are excited for the 2015 Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) Light the Night Walks. We hope you will consider joining us this year at this great event.

Light the Night Walks happen in communities all across the country. During these evening walks, participants carry illuminated lanterns – white for survivors, red for supporters, and gold in memory of loved ones lost to blood cancer. The walks are inspirational and memorable for all involved.

Funds raised by your team will go towards discovering breakthrough therapies and cures for people suffering from blood cancers like Leukemia, Lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease, and Myeloma.

To get started, talk to your local to see if there is already a Light the Night team. If not, ask about forming one and make sure your local’s team is registered on the UFCW Light the Night page. After your team is registered, you can recruit walkers and send them to your team page to register.

The UFCW Light the Night website will track our fundraising progress as well as keep a list of the top-performing UFCW locals and fundraisers. So be sure to check this page often.

For more information about the LLS, please visit www.LLS.org.

Make sure your team is "Gold and Bold" at your Light the Night Walk with team UFCW t-shirts!

The UFCW is one of the top 25 donors to the LLS so wear your shirts with union pride during your fundraisers and walks.

Get your team t-shirts today from the UFCW online store.

To date UFCW Light the Night teams have raised: $33,620

Our first Light the Night Walks are only two weeks away!

LLS Factoid of the Week

Since the early 1960s, five-year survival rates for many blood cancer patients have doubled, tripled or even quadrupled.

Fundraising Tip of the Week

If your local building has other tenants, ask them if they want to donate. 

Mission Moment of the Week

Ellie Koerner

It was literally overnight that Ellie went from a vibrant, energetic, “normal” four-year-old to a child diagnosed with cancer. Ellie was an inpatient for the first month of treatment, and then was discharged to go home, already in remission! Ellie spent long hours in chemotherapy and missed her friends a lot during that time.

Ellie is now a healthy, very active ten-year-old about to enter 5th grade. She loves to play softball, do gymnastics, play with her friends and go to the beach. Ellie is thanking everyone who participates in Light The Night and helps kids like her fight cancer.

Congratulations to UFCW Local 1994 on a successful Light the Night Walk!

Remeber to submit all of your team's Light the Night photos to Amy Gray and agray@ufcw.org to have your Light the Night Walks featured!

Louis J. DeGennaro, Ph.D., President and CEO of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society wrote a special letter of thank to the UFCW community for our dedication and hard work that is helping to save lives.

"Thanks to their steadfast dedication in helping blood cancer patients, we can thank the UFCW and their members for donating more than $77 million. This support has helped fund some of the most promising discoveries in cancer treatments to date, such as a therapy that reengineers a patient's own immune system to treat their particular blood cancer and kill cancer cells without damaging healthy ones."

To read the full letter, click here.