She is a Survivor!

If you would like to make a donation on Mackenzie's behalf you can download a donation form here

If you would like to make a gift in kind donation to be used at the next event you can download a gift in kind donation form here

National Transplant Assistance Fund 501-C-3 verification form

MacKenzie Clare is the sweet little red head that you see wheeling in and around Northern Virginia. On April 2, 2005 MacKenzie’s world as she knew it was changed forever. This once healthy, active child is now paralyzed from the chest down.

MacKenzie and her parents were on their way to a Girl Scout outing in Baltimore when a minimally-insured driver of a pick-up truck lost control and hit her car head-on at approximately 75 miles per hour. Although everyone in the car was seriously injured that day, MacKenzie sustained the most catastrophic of injuries.

At the young age of 13, she has a strong and fit body and mind and the innocence, optimism and spunk of a little girl trying to live as normal a life as possible as a 8th Grader. MacKenzie has endured a lot in the past 3 years. She wears a body brace 23 hours a day, and does approximately 1-2 hours of therapy after school each evening! Besides home therapy, MacKenzie also travels to Shriner’s Hospital in Philadelphia and Baltimore’s Kennedy Krieger Spinal Cord Injury Center every 3 months for follow-up visits and more intensive therapy. She is a motivated student who does very well in honors classes at her school, where she recently received an award for her enthusiasm and hard work in Adaptive PE!

Even with health insurance, Mackenzie and her family will face many life-long extraordinary uninsured medical expenses. Following the accident they had to move to a wheelchair accessible apartment. Now, after two years of emotional and physical healing, they have finally found a home in Leesburg that will accommodate MacKenzie and her wheelchair. The family is now faced with the financial burden of home modifications as well as the purchase of necessary handicapped equipment. To help offset these uninsured expenses, a fund-raising campaign in her honor has been established through the Catastrophic Injury Program of the National Transplant Assistance Fund (NTAF). NTAF has been assisting the transplant community with fund-raising for over 24 years. In 2000, they expanded their mission to assist those who have sustained a catastrophic injury. All donations are tax-deductible and are administered by NTAF for injury-related expenses only.

To order a bracelet, please use the Bracelet Order Form and please make all checks payable to

NTAF South Atlantic SCIF, In Honor of Mackenzie Clare

(National Transplant Assistance Fund) (Spinal Cord Injury Fund)

You can send the completed order form via email to Mark and Lisa Clare markandlisaclare@hotmail.com

Or

Send your order form via US Postal Mail to the following address

MacKenzie Clare

P.O. Box 1431

Ashburn, VA 20146-1431