Help us end leukemia and support patients & families.

Our mission is to improve outcomes and accelerate cures for high-risk leukemia, while eliminating the financial and logistical barriers that prevent patients and families from accessing life-saving care.

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The Heart Behind the Mission:

Our ‘Why’ has a name, a smile, and a story.

When we lost Jackson to leukemia, the world stopped. But in the silence and unbearable grief that followed, we realized that while Jackson’s personal battle had ended, the war against this terrible disease was still raging for thousands of other families, so we chose to stay in the fight.

We remember the crushing financial burden of the medical bills, co-pays, hotel stays, and maintaining two households during transplant and recovery.

We remember the exhausting physical and emotional toll of numerous six-week hospital stays, chemo infusions, transplant preparations, fevers, infections, late nights in the hospital’s urgent care center, and those 9-hour days for outpatient appointments and transfusions.

So we couldn’t just walk away. We took our love for Jackson, and turned it into a shield for others.

Why We Created the Jackson Copeland Foundation

The Jackson Copeland Foundation wasn’t built in a boardroom; it was built in a hospital room. We founded this organization to be the support system we learned was so desperately needed:

• Financial Relief: Helping families with the massive financial burden of a leukemia diagnosis so they can focus on their loved one’s treatment and recovery.
• Advocacy: Being a voice for patients who are currently in the thick of the fight.
• Research: Pushing for improved treatment protocols and accelerating treatments and cures for leukemia.
• A Legacy of Hope: Ensuring that no one has to walk this path alone.

What We Do:

• Raise money for leukemia research, and to provide financial support to patients and families, particularly AYA patients battling acute leukemia.
• Raise awareness for blood and platelet donations.
• Raise awareness for bone marrow/blood stem cell donor registries.

Jackson fought with a courage that redefined the word for us. Today, we carry that courage forward. We aren’t just a foundation; we are a family of fighters, survivors, and supporters dedicated to making sure that one day, no parent has to experience the loss we did.

About a week before Jackson passed, one of his doctors came into his hospital room on behalf of the hospital’s Ethics Committee, apparently concerned that Jackson wasn’t making his own medical decisions and that we might be pushing him to continue, which of course we weren’t.

Jackson was in end-stage leukemia, and he was in rough shape after his two-year battle. He had lost half of his body weight, he was deaf in one ear and half his face was paralyzed (due to CNS involvement). He had IVs in both arms, a PICC line in his bicep, a port in his chest, wires coming out of him everywhere, and alarms beeping constantly. But when it dawned on him what the doctor was asking, Jackson sat up, raised his hand to get the doctor’s attention, and explained:

“I have not yet begun to fight!”

So Jackson’s fight didn’t end. It just grew. Please join us!