giftoflivingdonation by Javier Luraschi

IMPORTANT: Create awareness of how important is to donate while living. Educate, Inspire, Unite! The Gift of a Living Donation | The GOLD | We have a plan, and we need your involvement. Welcome to The GOLD The GOLD is a 501.c.3 non-profit organization dedicated to spreading the word about the joy and emotional rewards about the voluntary bodily donation of one’s kidney, partial liver, bone marrow, and blood. We believe the key to saving lives is inspiring a cultural shift around donation. Through outreach, education, and positive messaging focused on the virtues of selfless giving, we aim to promote living donation as an act of love and human connection within our New York community. Learn more kidney-swaps-organ-donation 1.png The Mission OUR MISSION: At The GOLD we aim to inspire, educate, and unite our Greater New York community about the importance of living donations. Donations include partial liver, kidneys, blood, and bone marrow. We want to promote selfless giving as an inherent virtue, which will also make a life saving impact on the lives of those in need. OUR VISION: We aim to create a culture that believes living donation is part of what happiness, life, and community, are all about. We also envision a community where everyone who needs a life saving donation of blood, marrow, or organ receives one in time. SIGN UP Skip to Content The Gold Home Facts About Giving Resources About Us FAQ Get Involved Over 9,300 New Yorkers are waiting for a life-saving organ transplant (Donate Life New York State) Every 18 hours someone in New York dies waiting for an organ transplant (Donate Life New York State) New York transplant centers perform over 2,000 life-saving organ transplants from living donors every year (UNOS) New York transplant centers include NY Presbyterian, NYU Langone, Mount Sinai, Montefiore and others Living Kidney Donation Partial Liver Donation A 7 year old boy was the first person in the New York City area to receive a partial liver transplant in 2011 Since then, over 50 liver donor specialists have organized to share their research, data and experiences in order to have best practices available to the local medical community Blood Donation New York collects over 658,000 blood donations annually, but more donors are needed to maintain supply (New York Blood Center) Less than 2% of people in New York donate blood each year (New York Blood Center) New York has over 200 blood drive locations to make donating convenient (New York Blood Center) Blood Donation Doctor extracting bone marrow during a procedure Bone Marrow Donation Leukemia, lymphoma, and other blood cancers affect over 90,000 New Yorkers (New York State Department of Health) Over 1,200 New York patients with these blood cancers search the national registry for matches every year (Be The Match) Only 30% of national marrow registry members identify as non-Caucasian, reducing odds for diverse patients (Be The Match) The Gift of Living Donation - a registered 501.c.3 Nonprofit Organization Address P.O. Box 175, Edgewater, NJ, 07020 Contact info@giftoflivingdonation.org EIN: 27-0456145

IMPORTANT: Create awareness of how important is to donate while living. Educate, Inspire, Unite! The Gift of a Living Donation | The GOLD | We have a plan, and we need your involvement. Welcome to The GOLD The GOLD is a 501.c.3 non-profit organization dedicated to spreading the word about the joy and emotional rewards about the voluntary bodily donation of one’s kidney, partial liver, bone marrow, and blood. We believe the key to saving lives is inspiring a cultural shift around donation. Through outreach, education, and positive messaging focused on the virtues of selfless giving, we aim to promote living donation as an act of love and human connection within our New York community. Learn more kidney-swaps-organ-donation 1.png The Mission OUR MISSION: At The GOLD we aim to inspire, educate, and unite our Greater New York community about the importance of living donations. Donations include partial liver, kidneys, blood, and bone marrow. We want to promote selfless giving as an inherent virtue, which will also make a life saving impact on the lives of those in need. OUR VISION: We aim to create a culture that believes living donation is part of what happiness, life, and community, are all about. We also envision a community where everyone who needs a life saving donation of blood, marrow, or organ receives one in time. SIGN UP Skip to Content The Gold Home Facts About Giving Resources About Us FAQ Get Involved Over 9,300 New Yorkers are waiting for a life-saving organ transplant (Donate Life New York State) Every 18 hours someone in New York dies waiting for an organ transplant (Donate Life New York State) New York transplant centers perform over 2,000 life-saving organ transplants from living donors every year (UNOS) New York transplant centers include NY Presbyterian, NYU Langone, Mount Sinai, Montefiore and others Living Kidney Donation Partial Liver Donation A 7 year old boy was the first person in the New York City area to receive a partial liver transplant in 2011 Since then, over 50 liver donor specialists have organized to share their research, data and experiences in order to have best practices available to the local medical community Blood Donation New York collects over 658,000 blood donations annually, but more donors are needed to maintain supply (New York Blood Center) Less than 2% of people in New York donate blood each year (New York Blood Center) New York has over 200 blood drive locations to make donating convenient (New York Blood Center) Blood Donation Doctor extracting bone marrow during a procedure Bone Marrow Donation Leukemia, lymphoma, and other blood cancers affect over 90,000 New Yorkers (New York State Department of Health) Over 1,200 New York patients with these blood cancers search the national registry for matches every year (Be The Match) Only 30% of national marrow registry members identify as non-Caucasian, reducing odds for diverse patients (Be The Match) The Gift of Living Donation - a registered 501.c.3 Nonprofit Organization Address P.O. Box 175, Edgewater, NJ, 07020 Contact info@giftoflivingdonation.org EIN: 27-0456145