What else is out there?
While we have not listed them here as there are too many,
we work with OPOs and Donate Life branches nationwide to help eliminate the wait.
Organ Donation and Transplantation Partners
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Donor Alliance
As the regional Organ Procurement Organization (OPO), Donor Alliance facilitates the process of organ and tissue donation for transplantation throughout Colorado and most of Wyoming.
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Vitalant Blood Donation
Vitalant is the nation’s largest independent, nonprofit organization focused exclusively on providing lifesaving blood services. They have a network of about 120 donation centers across the U.S. and host approximately 60,000 blood drives annually.
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American Society of Transplantation
The American Society of Transplantation is a diverse organization dedicated to advancing the field of transplantation and improving patient care by promoting research, education, advocacy, organ donation, and service to the community through a lens of equity and inclusion.
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NMDP
At NMDP (formerly Be The Match), we believe each of us holds the key to curing blood cancers and disorders. Our vision is to create a world where every patient can receive their life-saving cell therapy. Over the past 30 years NMDP, has managed the most diverse marrow registry in the world.
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Transplant Families
Transplant Families offers families of pediatric transplant information about existing support groups and web pages that might help them during, before, and after the transplant procedure.
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Heartfelt Help Foundation
Heartfelt Help Foundation assists transplant recipients afford clean and safe housing during their recovery since expenses are often medically-required and rarely covered by insurance.
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American Liver Foundation
The American Liver Foundation supports the 100 million Americans impacted by liver disease through critical research, advocacy, education, and support services.
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Hearts for Russ
Hearts for Russ is dedicated to making a difference in organ transplantation by raising funds for non-profit organizations that are working to increase participation in the organ donation registry, and supporting patients and families undergoing transplants.
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World Transplant Games Federation
The World Transplant Games Federation celebrates successful transplantations through the Summer and Winter World Transplant Games. They also work to raise public awareness about the importance of organ donation by demonstrating health and fitness after transplantation.
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National Kidney Donation Organization
NKDO educates prospective living kidney donors to donate as safely and effectively as possible. They are devoted to helping end the kidney crisis in the United States.
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Living Liver Foundation
Living Liver Foundation focuses on increasing the number of living organ donations through increasing awareness by creating events that honor living donor pairs, educate the public on the need for it, and inspire others to become living donors to save lives and give hope to those awaiting transplant.
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Transplant Pregnancy Registry
The Transplant Pregnancy Registry International (TPRI) is an ongoing research study focused on the effects of pregnancy on transplant recipients and the effects of immunosuppressive medications on fertility and pregnancy outcomes.
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Project Donor
Project Donor is a nonprofit working to end America's organ shortage by helping living kidney and liver donor candidates achieve transplant eligibility and thrive after donating.
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Transplant Lyfe
Transplant Lyfe is a safe and moderated patient community for transplant recipients, caregivers, and donors. It works to connect individuals and help those going through the process.
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National Kidney Foundation
The National Kidney Foundation believes that everyone who needs a kidney should get a kidney. The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) is the largest, most comprehensive, and longstanding patient-centric organization dedicated to the awareness, prevention, and treatment of kidney disease in the U.S. For more information about NKF, visit www.kidney.org.
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Childrens' Organ Transplant Association
The Children's Organ Transplant Association helps children and young adults who need a life-saving transplant by providing fundraising assistance and family support.
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Transplant House of Cleveland
Transplant House of Cleveland provides affordable, temporary housing, and a welcoming, supportive community to organ transplant patients and their families.
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SODA
Student Organ Donation Advocates (SODA) is a nonprofit student-based organization that hosts organ donation awareness events throughout college and high school campuses.
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Nora's Home
Nora’s Home offers solid organ transplant patients and their families an affordable place to stay in the Texas Medical Center (TMC), where they can find support and share experiences with others, in the comfort of a home-like environment.
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Help Hope Live
Help Hope Live supports community-based fundraising for people with unmet medical expenses and related costs due to cell and organ transplants or catastrophic injuries and illnesses.
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National Foundation for Transplants
The National Foundation for Transplants provides guidance through the process and grant opportunities to help cover out-of-pocket transplant-related expenses.
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Caring Hands Village
The Village supports the Caregivers, Patients, and Families as they move through their journeys of Transplant, Cancer, CF, PH, Kidney Disease, Liver Disease, and so many more. Our Network of Mentors is offering their love, support, and prayers. Their mission is simple: help those in need who are going through what we had to endure, so we can ensure no one else has to go through it alone!
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Second Wind Lung Transplant Association
Second Wind is dedicated to improving the quality of life for lung transplant recipients, lung surgery candidates, people with related pulmonary concerns and their families, caregivers and friends by providing support, advocacy, education, information and guidance through a spirit of service, adding years to their lives and life to their years.
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Mantis BBQ
In 2019, a family member and Co-founder of Mantis BBQ, Spencer Mantis, successfully underwent a kidney transplant while still in his 20s. While Spencer was fortunate to have a living donor, many wait years for a kidney transplant. Proceeds from Mantis BBQ are donated to the Kidney Project which is working on developing a bioartificial kidney.
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Harboring Hearts
Harboring Hearts provides emergency housing, transportation, food, and emotional support programming to cardiac surgery and transplant patients and their families.
Watch, Listen & Read
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Transplant Talks
Podcast
In Transplant Talks, psychiatrist and living liver donor, Rachel Davis, MD, collaborates with Anastasia Henry, Executive Director of the American Transplant Foundation.
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Unpacking the Gift of Life
Podcast
Unpacking the Gift of Life shares inspiring, firsthand stories of hope, health, and emotional well-being from kidney disease patients, transplant survivors, and friends, Valen Keefer and Cristen Wathen.
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Donor Diaries
Podcast
Donor Diaries shares unfiltered stories of kidney donation through the voices of living donors and straight talk from transplant experts who are committed to bringing the conversation of living organ donation to the forefront of society.
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Growing the Gift
Podcast
Growing the Gift is all about pediatric transplant from the eyes of those who live it every day: caregivers, patients, the clinical team and our community.
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Clayton Sparks Leaves His Mark
Book
Clayton became an organ donor at the age of 24. This book is written by Abby Gray, the wife of Clayton’s liver recipient, to honor the incredible gift they received. Abby’s mother, Dee Everett, brings the story to life through her charming illustrations.
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Howl the Owl
Book
Howl the Owl® was created to inspire love and kindness, and also bring awareness to organ donation through his series of organ donation books.
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A Heart on Valentine's Day
Book
Howl the Owl® was created to inspire love and kindness, and also bring awareness to organ donation through his series of organ donation books.
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17 Again
Book
Inspired by real-life events in 1993, 17 Again tells the story of Andrea Michelle Boullt, 17, who passed away in a tragic automobile accident in Monroe, Louisiana, and imagines the lives of the people she saved.
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Ordinary Angels
Movies
A struggling hairdresser finds a renewed sense of purpose when she meets a widowed father working hard to care for his two daughters. With his youngest critically ill and waiting for a liver transplant, the fierce woman single-handedly rallies an entire community to help.
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Last Christmas
Book
Nothing seems to go right for young Kate, a frustrated Londoner who works as an elf in a year-round Christmas shop. But things soon take a turn for the better when she meets Tom--a handsome charmer who seems too good to be true.
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2 Hearts
Book
A college student falls madly in love with a classmate, while in another time and place, a Cuban exile falls for a beautiful flight attendant.
A romantic mystery based on real events that finds a positive outcome from tragedy.
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Confessions of a Good Samaritan
Book
Director Penny Lane’s decision to become a “Good Samaritan” by giving one of her kidneys to a stranger launches her on an unexpectedly funny, intimate, and provocative quest to understand why everyone seems to think she’s crazy.
Other Resources
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UNOS
The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) is a non-profit serving as the nation’s transplant system contracted under the federal government. UNOS is the force behind the transplant waitlist and continuously works to improve the transplantation system.
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Donate Life America
Donate Life America is a nonprofit organization leading its national partners and Donate Life State Teams to increase the number of donated organs, eyes and tissue available for transplantation.
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American Heart Association
The American Heart Association is dedicated to improving heart health and reducing deaths from cardiovascular diseases and stroke.
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American Transplantation Foundation
The American Transplantation Foundation works to save lives by reducing the transplant waitlist. They focus on promoting and encouraging living donation across the USA.
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Association for Multicultural Affairs in Transplantation
Saving more lives by increasing organ and tissue donation among multicultural communities.
Through professional development, cultural competency training, and other expertise born of front-line experience, AMAT’s members offer a valuable perspective to help our partners in the transplant field accomplish their life-saving mission in our diverse communities.
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Enduring Hearts
Enduring Hearts focuses on funding innovative research aimed toward increasing the longevity of pediatric heart transplants, improving the quality of life of children living with a new heart, and eliminating pediatric heart diseases that may lead to a transplant.
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Lung Transplant Foundation
The mission of the Lung Transplant Foundation is to improve the lives of lung transplant patients and their families. They are a nationally recognized advocate for lung transplant research.
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National Pancreas Foundation
The National Pancreas Foundation provides hope for those suffering from pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer through funding cutting edge research, advocating for new and better therapies, and providing support and education for patients, caregivers, and health care professionals.