Welcome to our Team's Homepage

Welcome to the Portland, Oregon Jack's Mannequin team homepage.

"With each new day it becomes more apparent to me that everything and everyone in this world is connected in some beautiful and inexplicable way, and the more I accept that, the more my world seems to come together." - Andrew McMahon

Light The Night Walk is The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's evening walk and fundraising event. It is the nation's night to pay tribute and bring hope to thousands of people battling blood cancers and to commemorate loved ones lost.

The Jack's Mannequin team is made of people who are fans of the band Jack's Mannequin and it's front man Andrew McMahon, who survived acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 2005 after a successful stem-cell transplant from his sister Katie in August of that year. The Jack's Mannequin teams across the nation are commited to rasing awareness about cancer, raise funds for cancer research, and help find a cure (and to prevent) cancer. In 2008 the Jack's Mannequin team raised over $100,000 having a research grant named in it's honor. Andrew McMahon has been very active in the cancer community raising awareness and funds through his charity the Dear Jack Foundation (www.dearjackfoundation.com).

-A donation of $25 provides patients and their loved ones with FREE booklets that contain up-to-date information on their disease and help them make informed decisions about their treatment options.

-A donation of $50 makes possible a Family Support group with a trained facilitator where comfort can be found and experiences can be shared among patients and family members.

-A donation of $100 helps supply laboratory researchers with supplies and materials critical to carrying out their search for cures.

-A donation of $1,000 makes possible one- on-one conversations with health care specialists who provide patients with information about their disease, treatment options, and helps prepare them with questions for their health care team.

Please join us on October 9, 2009 at the Portland walk and be part of the Jack's Mannequin team. If you cannot be at the walk or would not like to walk then then please make a donation to our team. Every little thing counts in helping saving lives. A night at the walk or a donation is a big step. Please join us or donate to the Portland, Oregon Jack's Mannequin team.

Thank you.

"People in the hospital ... call me the wellest man on the ward. That's what's going to sustain me. I have these energy reserves that I somehow can't seem to deplete." -Andrew McMahon