Organized by Donate Life Arizona as part of Donate Life Month, last week transplant recipients and donor families gathered at the AZ State Capitol in celebration of Donate Life Day. “The event served a special purpose this year, providing an opportunity for state lawmakers to meet those who have received a second chance at life through [...]
Only famous or wealthy people get organ transplants. My religion does not support organ, tissue and eye donation. No one will want my organs because of my medical history. Besides, I’m too old to be a donor. These are just a few of the myths dispelled in the article Setting the Record Straight About Organ [...]
Please read this remarkable story from the New York Times about a young man’s kidney transplant, and his deep connection to his donor. The recipient, Antwan Hunter, received the transplant at just 16 years old, from then 21-year-old Jason Kendall Ray, who sustained massive brain injuries after being hit by a car while walking along a [...]
This article from the McCook Daily Gazette includes an important statistic: 98 percent of all adults have heard about organ donation and 86 percent have heard of tissue donation While the number of adults who have heard of tissue donation is definitely climbing, it still lags behind awareness of organ donation. The uses for donated [...]
April is National Donate Life Month (NDLM) and was instituted by Donate Life America and its members in 2003, and grew out of the federally proclaimed National Organ, Eye and Tissue Donation Awareness Week (NOTDAW). NDLM features an entire month of local, regional and national activities to help encourage Americans to become donors. Additionally, this [...]
In a story published by The Cypress Times today, LifeGift reminds everyone that the need for organ and tissue donors is still critical. According to LifeGift, an organ and tissue recovery agency in Texas, there are 110,000 people in the United States waiting for a lifesaving transplant. On average,18 people die of organ failure due [...]
The Associated Press reported that this week Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White has denoted March as National Kidney Month. White’s sister is a kidney recipient, and at the designation ceremony held at the Weiss Memorial Hospital in Chicago, he spoke about the importance of organ and tissue donation. To find out how to become a donor [...]
The California Department of Motor Vehicles and Donate Life California announced yesterday that more than eight million Californians have now registered as organ and tissue donors through the state’s Donate Life California Organ & Tissue Donor Registry, a 33 percent increase in 12 months. The orgainzations attribute the surge in registrations to continuing education about [...]
We are now in our second year of operating this educational site AllograftPossibilities. We started this site with the lofty goal of becoming the premier source for straightforward tissue donation and transplant information, and through feedback from our readers we have evolved the site to focus on the humanization of that topic, as well as [...]
We are excited to unveil the new and improved AllograftPossibilities, the premier Web source on tissue donation and transplantation. We overhauled the site to make it more user-friendly and better tailored for our numerous audiences including: donor families, tissue recipients, OPO personnel, students/young people that attend educational programs on donation and AlloSource personnel. The blog [...]
A behind-the-scenes peek at the construction of the 2011 Donate Life float for the Tournament of Roses Parade: Watch as the beautiful 2011 Donate Life float passes in the annual Tournament of Roses Parade
The AlloSource-sponsored Donate Life float rider and employees who attended the parade share their thoughts on the powerful experience The opportunity to be a float rider in this year’s 2011 Rose Parade was certainly once in a lifetime. This was an experience I’ll never forget and was definitely the largest arts and crafts project I’d [...]
We were thrilled that myriad local media took an interest in the story of Colorado Rose Parade float rider and tissue recipient Parker Simpson. It was a great way to kick off the New Year: with a reminder of the amazing possibilities of tissue donation. Follow the links below to check out some of the coverage [...]
Please check out this touching story from the Denver FOX affiliate about 19-year-old tissue recipient and cancer survivor Parker Simpson, who just returned from participating in the Donate Life Float in the 2011 Tournament of Roses Parade. Parker reflects on what it means to be a recipient of donated tissue:
We are thrilled to share a wonderful profile on tissue recipient and cancer survivor Parker Simpson, from reporter Brittany Anas with Boulder’s Daily Camera. Parker is in Pasadena now, gearing up to ride aboard the Donate Life Float in the 2011 Tournament of Roses Parade. Parker is participating in honor of tissue donation. LINK TO [...]
Students for Organ Donation at CU, CSU wager friendly bet and generate staggering results In the fall of 2007 I took over a student group, Students for Organ Donation, on the campus of the University of Colorado. For all intents and purposes, this group was dormant – there were no members. It was relayed to [...]
Darlene Aymerich shares her story – including her family’s three generations of donation and her choice to work for an organ procurement organization On Sunday October 27th, 1996 at about 7:30 am, I received a phone call from the State Police telling me that my 27-year-old daughter Shannon had been injured in a car accident. [...]
National Donor Sabbath is part of an organ donation initiative launched by the United States Department of Health and Human Services in 1997. Observed November 12-14, donation and transplant professionals collaborate with faith communities to focus on the life-saving and enhancing gifts of organ, tissue and blood stem cell donation. Faith leaders and congregations participate [...]
This enlightening article from CNN discusses the myriad ways you can choose to put your body to use after you die. Tissue donation is highlighted, mentioning: “your bones, ligaments, heart valves and corneas might not be of use to you in the hereafter, but they can certainly help someone else … tell your family members you’ve [...]
I am proud to announce that this month AlloSource was named Colorado’s top healthcare company as judged by the local business magazine ColoradoBiz. That said I know that this honor is not ours alone, but rather speaks to the overall impact of tissue donation and transplantation. We share this distinction with a handful of important [...]
National Hispanic Heritage Month celebrates the culture and traditions of U.S. residents with Hispanic roots. It is also used as an opportunity to celebrate and honor the gifts of life made by Hispanics through organ, eye and tissue donation and to encourage Hispanics to commit to donation. According to the US Department of Health and [...]
We are so pleased to see media coverage of tissue transplantation, because it can have life-saving and life-enhancing benefits just like organ transplantation. However, tissue donation is still lesser understood. Kudos to the Lubbock FOX network for shedding light on this issue, noting “a tissue donor has the ability to help a burn victim or [...]
We are thrilled to see that students across the country are joining the cause of organ and tissue donation and donor registration through the Students for Organ Donation organization. Here in Colorado two universities (University of Colorado and Colorade State University) have made the quest to register donors a friendly competition – what a great activity! Check [...]
We are pleased to introduce our 2011 Tournament of Roses Donate Life float rider In 2006 Parker Simpson was an active teenager, ambitious academically and involved in a number of sports including football, lacrosse and wrestling. It was that year, as a high school sophomore, that a sports injury to his ankle soon landed him [...]
Run for Life Honors, Celebrates and Recognizes those waiting for Lifesaving Transplant Donor Alliance hosted its signature event, the Donor Dash — a 5K run/walk to honor those who have given the gift of life, celebrate those who have received the gift of life and recognize those still waiting for a transplant. The Donor Dash [...]
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