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The 8th Annual Drives For Lives benefitting Jill Just Wants 2 Help will be held on Monday, October 10, 2011. The morning will feature free clinics at Brian Quinn's Golf Academy at Tee's Golf Center, followed by a team scramble, best ball tournament at Green Valley Country Club in Lafayette Hill. Cocktails, dinner and an awards program round out the day. Come out and support Jill Just Wants 2 Help as we award the tournament proceeds to a local family needing financial assistance while their child is receiving cancer treatment. Presented by Lucky Dog Saloon & Grille Outings Inc. and Jill Just Wants 2 Help. Please see LDSG Outings for sponsorship and registration information.

Pediatric Dental Associates 2010 Annual Christmas Charity - This year, as in the past 6 years, the employees of Pediatric Dental Associates, located in Philadelphia, Fort Washington and Southampton, chose a charity to which they would make a contribution for the Holidays. This has been a great way for our employees to say thank you to the doctors for their generosity to us during the year. For the second year in a row that charity was one that is close to our hearts— Jill Just Wants 2 Help. A total of $1,300.00 was collected from employees in the five offices.

Many of our employees knew Jill and we hope that our contributions allow
other families to know that her spirit of generosity continues in us all.

Please read the announcement and list of contributing Pediatric Dental Associates' employees.

Saturday November 6, 2010, 7:00 PM - Martinis & Motown a fabulous evening of Cocktails, Dinner, Live Entertainment & Dancing at Green Valley Country Club. ALL proceeds will benefit Jill Just Wants 2 Help. Visit our Events page for more information.

Sat, Nov. 6, 2010 - Blue Bell couple continues daughter's work in nonprofit to help families of seriously ill - By Kristin E. Holmes, Inquirer Staff Writer

The moment when Phil and Nancy Siegel realized their daughter had found a new calling came in a hospital room. Jillian A. Siegel, 20, was battling acute myeloid leukemia at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, but the Pennsylvania State University sophomore was working the phones and writing letters to help organize Thon, the giant annual charity dance marathon at her school. "We thought, 'We've got to stop this, she's got to rest,' " said Nancy Siegel, of Blue Bell. "But then we thought, this is the passion that you want your child to have."

Photo by LAURENCE KESTERSON / Inquirer Staff Photographer

Read the full story at Philly.com

In 2008, at the age of 20, Jillian Aggie Siegel, a sophomore at Penn State, Main Campus, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) during her final semester exams. Acute myeloid leukemia is cancer that starts inside bone marrow, the soft tissue inside bones that helps form blood cells. The cancer grows from cells that would normally turn into white blood cells.

Jill persevered through months of treatments in the hope that she would be able to be given a second chance at life through a bone marrow transplant. She coped with courage; never losing her resolve. Jill was determined that through her own illness she could help others. From her hospital bed, she spent her time raising funds for a charity that supports childhood cancer.

Sadly, in February 2009, Jillian Aggie Siegel lost her battle. Watching her and other adolescents in the hospital suffer through the arduous process of trying to conquer the disease, Jill's parents saw the financial and emotional toll that the disease takes on the families of the patients. It is in Jill's memory that Phil and Nancy have set up Jill Just Wants 2 Help, a public charity organized to assist those families.

Jill Just Wants 2 Help recently formed an alliance with the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) to provide financial resources for the families of young adults suffering from leukemia. Eventually, with the generous support of people like you, Jill Just Wants 2 Help hopes to establish Jill's House, a supportive housing facility, in close proximity to HUP, for patients undergoing treatment and their families. To become part of this special endeavor, go to Penn Medicine and complete the giving form for the Jill Just Wants to Help Fund.