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  • Donor Support

    • Matching Donors
      MatchingDonors.com is a web site created to give people in need of transplant surgery an active way to search for a live organ donor. Their goal is to increase the number of transplant surgeries and improve awareness of live organ donation.
    • LifeSharers
      LifeSharers helps organ donors donate their organs to fellow organ donors. Everyone is welcome to join, and membership is free. If you join, you'll get preferrred access to the organs of other LifeSharers members.
    • National Living Donor Assistance Center
      Providing financial assistance to those who want to donate an organ, priority is given to individuals not otherwise able to afford the travel and subsistence expenses associated with living organ donation
    • Alliance for Paired Donation
      Kidney paired donation matches one incompatible donor/recipient pair to another pair with a complementary incompatibility, so that the donor of the first pair gives to the recipient of the second, and vice versa.

  • Transplant Data

    • Organ Procurement and Transplant Network
      The sole repository of all national transplant data. Data can be viewed by state, by OPO or nationally and can be broken down by specific organ. Extremely valuable.

  • Transplant Policy

    • Chicaco Transplant Ethics Consortium
      Provides a forum and format for open, interdisciplinary discussion of social and ethical issues germane to transplantation in general and living donor transplantation in particular

  • Living Organ Donation

    • Transplant Living
      Official UNOS site providing information regarding living organ donation.
    • Living Donors Online
      The online community for living donors, potential donors, their families and the medical community.
    • Living Organ Donor
      Website dedicated to providing the most current information for people considering donating a solid living organ - a kidney, liver, or lung - sharing life. It is also for those who may be considering receiving or are waiting for a living organ transplant.

  • Transplantation Info

    • TransWeb
      Provides information about donation and transplantation to the general public in order to improve organ and tissue procurement efforts worldwide.
    • National Kidney Foundation
      The NKF is the major voluntary health organization dedicated to preventing kidney disease, improving the health and well-being of individuals affected by kidney disease, and increasing the availability of all organs for transplantation.