Friends,

We never set out to start a foundation.

We were a family nearly undone by addiction and despair. We found our way back. We found better than before.

Story is what got us there. It's what we do now — we tell ours, we get other people telling theirs, and change happens.

So we started the Magee Foundation. We go into schools, onto campuses, into churches and towns across the country, and we battle addiction and mental illness by building joy.

Stigma loses when somebody says it plainly. Then we help people and whole communities build what our family built: Connection and joy that lasts.

This isn't abstract to us. We know what it costs to lose. We know what it feels like to get a life back.

No family should have to feel as lost as we once did.

Blessings,

David Magee