Hey everyone, my name is Allison Wright and I work with the LIVESTRONG Challenge team here at the Foundation.

In an earlier blog, Doug referenced a young man by the name of Jimmy Fowkes who was waiting to hear back about a possible cancer recurrence. We recently received word that Jimmy’s cancer has indeed returned and he’s now facing chemo for 4-5 months, with the last 4-6 weeks being a stem cell rescue where he’ll be hospitalized for 28-42 days.

To give you an idea of the type of young man Jimmy is, read the story he wrote last year about his initial cancer experience.…

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Wisconsin is taking a leadership role in the fight to reduce the health consequences of smoking and tobacco use. Current Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle supports a comprehensive tobacco cessation plan for the state. Governor Doyle would increase the tax on cigarettes to fund a tobacco prevention and control program, a program that is drastically underfunded at this time. He also supports legislative efforts to make Wisconsin a smoke free state, but time is running out at the state capitol.

I am well aware that there are many concerns in addition to public health issues that need to be weighed in state-wide…

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Aloha! Been in Hawaii for 10 days now and have had a truly great time enjoying the people and the beauty of this place.

The boat you see in the shots is a six-man outrigger canoe, a very traditional boat that has been modernized. People race them between the Hawaiian Islands and all over the South Pacific. It’s a traditional sport out here and I had fun trying my hand at it. The guys here at Kukio are among the best in the world, if not THE best.

As a gesture to LIVESTRONG and all it represents, they painted up one of their…

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Hey everybody √¢‚Ǩ‚Äú My name is Brendan and I’m the Grassroots Advocacy Manager here at the LAF. Right now it seems like grassroots has become a buzzword, everybody keeps talking about it, but so often I feel like nobody really understands what it means. Grassroots is about getting everybody involved in the process; grassroots is about change from the bottom up, not the top down.

Grassroots is exactly what LIVESTRONG Day is supposed to be about. This year the foundation decided that we need to stray from the normal formula of sending a bunch of people to Washington DC to make change,…

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Hi folks! I did something I’ve never done before yesterday, despite having worked in politics for longer than I care to remember. I was one of the sign-holding people in the crowd at UT, surrounded by my fellow LIVESTRONG Army volunteers. I usually see these events from the spin room or backstage. This was my first time in the crowd and I totally loved it.

Everyone else’s signs were for Clinton or Obama and there we were – a group of yellow-wearin’ die hards with signs like “Show Me the Money (for Cancer)!!!”. It was awesome. It was especially cool to talk…

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