Our organization is a partner in a national initiative called the Workplace Partnership for Life.  You may have received information about organ, tissue, blood, or blood stem cell donation from us. You may already have decided to become an organ and tissue donor, or you may have signed up as a marrow/blood stem cell donor.  Or, you may still be making a decision about being a donor.

Whatever stage of involvement you are in concerning donation, we hope you will take a moment during National Donate Life Month to read the comments below, provided by the Division of Transplantation, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.  Learn what donation can mean to those whose lives it touches. 

• “I will be forever grateful for my second chance at life.”  Chris, transplant recipient
• “Sight plays such a wonderful and enriching part in our lives that the transplant has affected just about every facet of my life…  Thanks to the transplant I could be awestruck when I picked her up for our first date and saw how stunning she looked…And thanks to the transplant, I could see the tears in my mom’s eyes when I hugged her on graduation day…My eyes have seen things that have shaped who I am and what I want to accomplish, and all I can do in return is say thank you.  I say thank you and try to use my sight and my life to touch the lives of others and change the world for the better…”     Patrick, transplant recipient
• “Nothing hurts anymore. It feels good just to feel good.” Grace, transplant recipient
• “My son’s heart valves were transplanted to 3 different children…That alone demonstrated to me that Yes! That was the right decision... I’ve come to believe there’s a purpose on life and Michael’s purpose was not only to save 3 lives but to guide me to learn, educate myself to educate others and to bring happiness to others…My journey of grief has been alleviated thanks to that and somehow my heart is healing.  I thought I was left on my own after he left but I know somehow he’s still around!!!  Margarita, donor mother
• “…as fate would have it, some NY City mother had decided to do what very few moms were doing 10 years ago.  She consented to donate her newborn daughter’s cord blood to one of the very few public cord blood banking programs in the country. That single donation proved to be my one…my only…stem cell match…Stephen, cord blood recipient 

Nearly 100,000 people are on the national waiting list for an organ transplant. 
  Please consider signing up to be an organ, tissue, and marrow/blood stem cell donor.