How Transplant Recipients Help Promote Donation
How do I contact my Donor Family?
Resource Links for Transplant Recipients
   
Some of our best volunteers are transplant recipients who donate their time and energy to increase awareness of the importance of organ and tissue donation and the success of transplantation. By relating their personal stories, recipients provide compelling testimonies about the miracle of transplantation.

Through lively interactions with the public at community festivals, health fairs, service clubs and schools, for example, transplant recipients represent the "face of organ donation". They communicate impressions that are often powerful incentives for many to sign their donor cards on the spot!

As speakers, transplant recipients often share their stories with a variety of audiences. They visit high school classrooms, corporations, civic groups such as Rotary and Kiwanis, and professional conferences. Clearly, the opportunity to address an audience is one of the most effective ways to influence others to say "yes" to donation.
     
The anonymity of both the donor and the recipient(s) is protected by the transplant center and organ procurement agency at all times. If you wish to write to your donor family, please do one of the following:

1. For Northern California and the Reno, Nevada area, send all correspondence to:
   California Transplant Donor Network
   1000 Broadway Suite 600
   Oakland, CA 94607
   
   Include:
   • Name of Recipient
   • Date of transplantation
   • Organ transplanted
   • Hospital where transplantation occurred
2. Contact the Organ Procurement Agency (OPO) in your region.
   
   To find an OPO, click here.

Once the letter is received, we will match the information with appropriate family and will forward the mail onto them. Please understand that the individual receiving the letter may not wish to respond.
     
Transplant Recipients International Organization (TRIO)
National Transplant Assistance Fund (NTAF)
Children's Organ Transplant Association (COTA)
Transplant Living
Scientific Registry