CLF is featured on Click on Detroit’s list of Michigan charities to donate to on Giving Tuesday.

CLF’s Holiday Toys program is featured in the Royal Oak Tribune’s round up of opportunities to help those in need in Oakland County during the holiday season.

View this story in the Farmington Voice Farmington Hills-based Children’s Leukemia Foundation of Michigan (CLF), which provides support, resources, and information for patients and families dealing with blood cancer, has launched a holiday toy drive. CLF is collecting unwrapped toys for children and teens affected by leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma, and other blood related disorders. Suggested toy donations include action figures, … Read More

MACOMB, Mich. (WXYZ) — Out of the 6,000 people in Michigan that are diagnosed with a form of blood cancer each year, 11-year-old Ameir Edmunds is one of them. It was back in 2013, when Ameir was only 6 years old, that he and his family knew something was wrong. Ameir had a persistent cough and was low on energy. … Read More

There is no need for Johanna Mahnke to tell another mother what it’s like to find out your son has blood cancer. It goes without saying such news would be devastating. What she has been sharing with parents and others during September’s Blood Cancer Awareness Month is how the Children’s Leukemia Foundation helped her after the news created a seismic shift in … Read More

Two local golf outings recently raised nearly $170,000 to benefit Children’s Leukemia Foundation of Michigan. Funds raised from the golf outings will immediately help the 3,200 patients and family members served each year throughout the state of Michigan, providing emotional support, disease and treatment information, education and referral services, financial assistance, support groups, social events and a holiday toys program. The … Read More

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Every 90 minutes, someone in Michigan is diagnosed with leukemia, lymphoma or another potentially cancerous blood disorder. To help meet the growing need for support and services, Children’s Leukemia Foundation of Michigan will host a new event called Scavenger Safari on Saturday, June 1 at the Detroit Zoo, 8450 W 10 Mile Road, Royal Oak. This inaugural family event and fundraiser … Read More

Betsy Crapps will tell you she doesn’t deserve the credit for Mom Prom. She says the idea came from the Holy Spirit, and she was just sort of singing along. What this suggests is that No. 1: Crapps is probably too modest, and No. 2: the Holy Spirit likes to shake it down. The original Mom Prom in 2006 was Crapps and 11 … Read More