Leadership Circle
$1 million and above
In 2013, Barclays became the first team in the HISTORY of Light The Night to raise more than $1 Million in one year! Over the past seven years, Barclays has raised more than $5 million for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Light The Night, and we are excited to continue our commitment to fighting blood cancers.
Barclays is a major global financial services provider engaged in retail banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking and wealth and investment management with an extensive international presence in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. With over 300 years of history and expertise in banking, Barclays operates in over 50 countries and employs over 140,000 people. Barclays moves, lends, invests and protects money for 48 million customers and clients worldwide.
Barclays has a proud tradition of supporting and investing in its communities. By partnering with high-performing and innovative nonprofit organizations locally and globally, Barclays has demonstrated a commitment to and passion for philanthropic initiatives.
To learn more about Barclays please visit their website
Bristol-Myers Squibb is a global biopharmaceutical company whose mission is to discover, develop and deliver innovative medicines that help patients prevail over serious diseases. Our medicines are helping millions of people around the world in their fight against cancer, cardiovascular disease, hepatitis C, HIV/AIDS and rheumatoid arthritis.
BMS supports Patient Services, Public Policy/Advocacy and Campaign
Learn more at Bristol-Myers Squibb
Burlington Stores, a national off-price retailer with 567 stores in 45 states and Puerto Rico, continues to set the standard for the Light The Night National Partner program. Burlington has partnered with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) as our #1 Light The Night National Partner since 2003. Since our partnership began, Burlington has raised more than $25 million for the LLS mission: Find cures and ensure access to treatments for blood cancer patients.
In 2015 alone, Burlington raised $3.3 million with more than 1,000 Burlington associates participating in Light The Night Walks across the country.
In addition to their significant financial impact on our mission, Burlington has also provided an invaluable level of awareness of our patient services and research efforts.
Burlington is a shining example of corporate engagement, from their dedicated executive leadership and store associates to their amazingly generous customers. The results speak for themselves: Burlington is our most successful National Partner, achieving fantastic milestones each and every year.
Burlington is a national off-price retailer offering style for less with up to 65 percent off other retailer prices every day. Departments include ladies' dresses, suits, sportswear, juniors, accessories, menswear, family footwear and children's clothing. It also offers an assortment of furniture and accessories for baby at Baby Depot, home décor and gifts, as well as the largest selection of coats in the nation for the entire family.
To find a store and to learn more, visit Burlington.
Celgene is dedicated to developing and delivering innovative therapies. Today many blood cancers are managed as chronic diseases because of the development of novel therapies which may allow patients to treat their cancer without the limitations imposed by traditional treatments. The LLS commitment to research and patient outreach have both helped improve and prolong the lives of patients living with blood cancers and our continued support of their mission is crucial. Celgene supports Patient Services, Public Policy/Advocacy, Research and Campaign.
For more information, please visit our website.
Considered the founder of the industry, Genentech, now a member of the Roche Group, has been delivering on the promise of biotechnology for over 35 years.
At Genentech, we use human genetic information to discover, develop, manufacture and commercialize medicines to treat patients with serious or life-threatening medical conditions. Today, we are among the world's leading biotech companies, with multiple products on the market and a promising development pipeline. Genentech supports Patient Services, Public Policy/Advocacy, Research and Campaign
For more than 25 years, Gilead has been committed to developing medicines that address areas of unmet medical need for people around the world. We are now advancing a pipeline of novel therapies for a range of cancers, including certain blood cancers where new treatments are urgently needed. Gilead supports Patient Services and Campaign
Learn more at Gilead
Novartis is a global healthcare company based in Basel, Switzerland, with roots dating back more than 150 years. Our organization provides healthcare solutions that address the evolving needs of patients and societies worldwide. The Novartis portfolio focuses on pharmaceuticals, eye care products and generic medicines. Novartis products are available in more than 180 countries worldwide. Our products reached more than 1 billion people globally in 2014. About 23,000 people work for Novartis Group Companies in the US.
Novartis supports Patient Services, Public Policy/Advocacy, and Campaign. Learn more at Novartis
Olive Garden is proud to be the National Sponsor of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) Student Series. For more than 20 years, Olive Garden’s Pasta for Pennies program has rewarded elementary and middle school children for their participation in the LLS Student Series, a unique service-learning, philanthropy and character-building initiative in which students collect donations, including their own spare change, to support LLS’s efforts to find cures for blood cancers and ensure that patients have access to treatments. The top fundraising classroom in each school receives a pasta party courtesy of Olive Garden, which aims to bring its family dining experience to the classroom. With Olive Garden’s support, LLS Student Series has raised more than $288 million since 1994, and is just one of the many community and charity initiatives of the Olive Garden family of 800+ restaurants, which strives to bring hospitality and care to every community we serve.
For more information, visit Olive Garden.
Pharmacyclics:
We are the visionaries and innovators who believe anything is possible and we are not afraid to reach for the stars even when others see only darkness. We are changing the story for people impacted by cancer and immune-mediated inflammatory diseases. We are true allies of patients and caregivers who face serious unmet medical needs. We uphold our commitment through an unwavering determination to provide transformative medicines whose safety, efficacy, and tolerability outweigh their risks. We do this not because it is easy but because it is right, and because helping others is integral to what we believe. Pharmacyclics supports Patient Services and Campaign.
Janssen:
During the last half-century, we have brought together a number of innovative pharmaceutical companies with one overarching goal: to address and solve some of the most important unmet medical needs of our time. Today, we are united under a common name — the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson.
Together, we share a vision of providing innovative solutions that bring value to people, healthcare professionals and health systems around the world. Driven by our commitment to patients, we deliver products and services that offer hope and a healthier life to people throughout the world. Janssen supports Patient Services, Research and Campaign.
To learn more about Pharmacyclics and Janssen and what they are doing for patients with blood cancers, please visit. Pharmacyclics and Janssen
Takeda Oncology combines the innovative science of a leading American biopharmaceutical company with the global assets – both intellectual and fiscal – of Japan's largest pharmaceutical company.
Our mission is to deliver extraordinary medicines to patients with cancer worldwide through our science, innovation, and passion.
We are focused exclusively in oncology to improve the treatment of cancer around the world. Our pipeline has more than 15 oncology investigational compounds that target a broad range of cancers. Takeda Oncology supports Patient Services, Public Policy/Advocacy, Research and Campaign.
Additional information about Takeda Oncology is available through its website,
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) has been a powerful voice for LLS for an amazing 32 years! Thanks to the continued generous commitment of the UFCW, over $77 million has been raised since 1983 to support blood cancer research. The UFCW and its 1.3 million U.S & Canadien members shine as an example of the kind of impact their solidarity with the LLS cause can make. In 2015 alone, the UFCW raised $1.9 million in the United States and over $2.5 million in Canada. The UFCW fundraising activity included successful charity golf tournaments, auctions, bottle drives, and sporting clay shooting events along with participation in LLS campaigns such as Light The Night, Team In Training and other activities. Of the $2.5 million raised in Canada, $1.7 million was raised through a bottle drive called "Returns for Leukemia." Among some of the other outstanding milestones is the effort of UFCW Local 328, representing workers in Rhode Island, southern Mass. and eastern Connecticut. The local reached the $1 million milestone recently through its annual golf tournament for LLS. In addition, UFCW Local 75, located in the Cincinnati/Dayton area, raised an incredible $110,000 with their charity golf tournament along with a Shoot for a Cure event and their participation in Light the Night. The majority of UFCW's members are primarily employed in the grocery industry. They also represent workers in nursing homes, retail clothing stores, poultry, meatpacking and food processing plants and in numerous other retail and food manufacturing areas.
In 2016, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) and Walgreen Co. announced the launch of an innovative collaboration designed to further advance cancer therapies and address the changing treatment model facing patients with blood and other cancers. The collaboration builds on the heritage of Walgreens in serving its communities, and the 66-year history of LLS, which has invested more than $1 billion in research to advance blood cancer treatments and cures.
As new blood cancer therapies come to market and patients are able to manage their disease with oral medications at home, pharmacists are well-positioned on the front lines of patient care to help facilitate this treatment transition and play a significant role in providing access to these new therapies.
This Shared Value partnership will help patients, families and caregivers in three key ways:
- Provide educational tools and resources for enhanced patient support
- Implement a pharmacist education and training program to ensure pharmacists are knowledgeable about aspects of the cancer care continuum and can provide additional care
- Community engagement and corporate support for LLS's iconic Light The Night Walk national fundraising campaign
Learn more at Walgreens.
Champions
$500,000 - $999,999
Amgen is proud to be a National Sponsor of the Light the Night Walk, a nationwide fundraising campaign of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
Across the United States, Amgen employees will form teams to raise funds and disease awareness for blood cancers by joining Light the Night Walk events in their communities.
At Amgen, we strive to serve patients by transforming the promise of science and biotechnology into therapies that have the power to improve the lives of patients who suffer from diseases. In everything we do, we aim to fulfill our mission to serve patients. Participating in the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Light the Night Walk is another way we can demonstrate this promise.
We invite you to learn more about Amgen.
Pfizer Inc.: Working together for a healthier world®
At Pfizer, we apply science and our global resources to bring therapies to people that extend and significantly improve their lives. We strive to set the standard for quality, safety and value in the discovery, development and manufacture of health care products. Our global portfolio includes medicines and vaccines as well as many of the world's best-known consumer health care products. Every day, Pfizer colleagues work across developed and emerging markets to advance wellness, prevention, treatments and cures that challenge the most feared diseases of our time. Consistent with our responsibility as one of the world's premier innovative biopharmaceutical companies, we collaborate with health care providers, governments and local communities to support and expand access to reliable, affordable health care around the world. For more than 150 years, Pfizer has worked to make a difference for all who rely on us. To learn more, please visit us at www.pfizer.com.
PVH has been a supporter of the Light The Night walk since 2010 and has raised $2.5 million collectively for the LLS mission. Every summer PVH (Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein and Van Heusen) stores in the US and Canada, engage their customers in a in-store customer donation campaign. PVH employees also forms Walk Teams across North America.
PVH is one of the largest global apparel companies with a diversified portfolio of iconic lifestyle brands led by Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger.
To learn more about PVH please visit their website
The Sarah Cannon Blood Cancer Network is proud to partner with LLS in 2015 as a “Leading Light” and for the renewed opportunity to give back to the community by raising awareness about blood cancer, its incidence and the significant research that is sponsored by LLS.
One of the largest providers of blood cancer care including blood and marrow transplantations in the United States and United Kingdom, The Sarah Cannon Blood Cancer Network conducts more than 900 transplants per year and has treated more than 10,000 patients since its inception. Through its commitment to the highest level of quality standards, infrastructure, training and research, we provide an unparalleled experience for patients and are recognized as a leader in patient care and outcomes.
It is an honor to work with LLS and help advance their mission of curing leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families. The Sarah Cannon Blood Cancer Network and LLS are a perfect fit as Sarah Cannon provides research support services to oncologists, hematologists and drug development sponsors.
To learn more, visit Sarah Cannon.
Subaru of America and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society are working together to provide much needed support and “warmth” to those fighting cancer and their families, nationwide. Throughout the month long Subaru Loves to Care initiative in June, which is a part of the larger Subaru Love Promise commitment to making a positive impact in local communities, visitors to participating Subaru retailers wrote 12,770 messages of hope to help support those fighting cancer.
The campaign made an incredible impact, as 54 LLS chapters across the country partnered with 393 participating Subaru retailers to deliver over 30,000 blankets to patients undergoing cancer treatment at over 270 local hospitals and treatment centers nationwide. Together, LLS and Subaru are reaching and supporting patients, families and caregivers in their time of need. Through this initiative to raise awareness and funds for the urgent need to find cancer cures and ensure patients have access to lifesaving treatments, Subaru is helping LLS make someday, today, for blood cancer patients.
For more information, visit Subaru.
People are at the heart of what drives Teva Oncology. As a top 10 oncology company in the US, we strive to improve the lives of people affected by cancer. Our focus is to provide solutions in hematologic malignancies, solid tumors and supportive care. At Teva Oncology, our vision is to change the course of cancer care one patient at a time.
For more information, visit Teva Oncology.
Visionary
$250,000 - $499,999
BDO has been a supporter of Light The Night since 2005 at the local level and nationally since 2013. By volunteering their time, talent and resources, BDO strives to positively impact their communities, while building a firmwide culture of giving back that strengthens their business, inspires their people, and helps achieve their core purpose of helping people thrive every day. To date they have raised more than $530,000 for the Light The Night Walks.
For more than 100 years, BDO USA has been recognized as a premier accounting, tax and consulting organization. They are the fifth largest accountancy network in the world with 58 offices across the U.S. and 1,264 offices worldwide. Learn more about BDO and its services
Carter's, Inc., is proud to partner with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society help find cures for blood cancers. Since joining the first Light The Night Walk in 2000, Carter's and their employees have raised nearly $3.7 million in support of this important research.
Carter's Inc., (CRI) is the largest branded marketer in the United States and Canada of apparel exclusively for babies and young children. Carter's and OshKosh B'gosh are two of the most well-known and trusted brands in young children's apparel, known for quality and value by generations of customers.
Carter's, Inc., cares about the health and well-being of children and is committed to making a difference in the lives of children with cancer. As a Light The Night national team, Carter's has helped The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society make great progress in finding a cure for childhood cancers. For example, in 1964, the five-year survival rate for children with the most commonly diagnosed pediatric leukemia was 3%. Today it's approximately 90%.
Carter's is honored to once again be a national team at the Light The Night Walk. Our employees, families and friends, are proud to join with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society to help find a cure for childhood cancers.
To learn more about Carter's please visit their website.
Elbit Systems of America and its employees has been walking in Light The Night since 2008. Since then, Elbit Systems of America employees have raised $1.6 million for the LLS mission.
Elbit Systems of America is a leading provider of high performance products, system solutions, and support services focusing on the defense, homeland security, commercial aviation and medical instrumentation markets. With facilities throughout the United States, Elbit Systems of America is dedicated to supporting those who contribute daily to the safety and security of the United States.
To learn more about Elbit Systems of America please visit their website.
Global Franchise Group (GFG) has been a partner of Light The Night since 2012, and has collectively raised more than $1.6 million for LLS's mission. Global Franchise Group is the strategic brand management company behind Great American Cookies®, Marble Slab Creamery®, MaggieMoo's Ice Cream & Treatery®, Pretzelmaker® and Hot Dog on a Stick®. Each August and September, Global Franchise Group engages their franchisees and customers in a donation-at-checkout campaign that they call "A Bite for the Fight."
To learn more about Global Franchise Group and its brands please visit their website.
Salesforce and its employees have been a National Team of Light The Night since 2012. In three short years, Salesforce employees have raised more than $800,000 for the LLS mission by forming Walk team across North America. Founded in 1999, Salesforce is the Customer Success Platform and world's #1 CRM company. Salesforce has six core product lines—Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Community Cloud, Analytics Cloud and the Salesforce1 Platform—empowering companies of every size and industry to connect with their customers in a whole new way.
The Customer Success Platform, which bridges the gap between companies and their customers, today is giving companies the ability to go as fast as the evolving technology world around them.
To learn more about Salesforce please visit its website at: www.salesforce.com
At Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Inc., we bring the expertise and passion for excellence of our team to acquire, develop and commercialize pharmaceuticals for unmet medical needs while building value for our shareholders. Spectrum supports Patient Services and Campaign. Learn more at Spectrum.
Stater Bros. Charities has been a Light The Night partner since 2008. Since that time, Stater Bros. employees and customers have raised nearly $2.4 million for the LLS mission. Each June, Stater Bros. engages their customers in a donation campaign by selling the special Light The Night paper mobile for $1 or $5 at checkout. Stater Bros. also forms a 1,000+ person walk team for the Orange County, CA Light The Night Walk each September, and in 2014 became the first team to raise $100,000 for this Walk.
Stater Bros. is the largest privately owned Supermarket Chain in Southern California. Stater Bros. currently operates 168 Full Service Supermarkets located in San Bernardino County, Riverside County, Los Angeles County, Orange County, San Diego County and Kern County. There are 18,000 members of the Stater Bros. Supermarket "Family".
To learn more about Stater Bros. please visit their website.
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