Additional Links
Information and Advocacy
Donate Life America (formerly the Coalition on Donation): www.donatelife.net
The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN): http://optn.transplant.hrsa.gov
The official U.S. government site for information on donation and transplantation: www.organdonor.gov
The Gift of a Lifetime: www.organtransplants.org
The National Marrow Donor Program: www.marrow.org
The American Red Cross (blood and marrow donation): www.redcross.org
The National Kidney Foundation: http://www.kidney.org/
Accrediting and Oversight Organizations
United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS): www.unos.org
The Association of Organ Procurement Organizations (AOPO): www.aopo.org
The American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB): www.aatb.org
The Eye Bank Association of America (EBAA): www.restoresight.org
Public Education
Donate Life Northwest: www.donatelifenw.org
Oregon Donor Registry: www.donatelifenw.org/register
Idaho Donor Registry: www.yesidaho.org
Washington State and Montana Donor Registry: www.donatelifetoday.com
Transplant Information
The Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR): www.srtr.org
State Legislation
Oregon State: www.leg.state.or.us/ors/097.html
Idaho State: www.legislature.idaho.gov/idstat/Title39/T39CH34.htm
Washington State: apps.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=68.64.
Community Partners
Lions VisionGift: www.visiongift.org
Community Tissue Services: www.communitytissue.org
Idaho Lions Eye Bank: www.idaholions.org/programs/eye-bank.aspx
SightLife (founded by Northwest Lions Foundation, Seattle, Wash.): www.sightlife.org
Local Transplant Centers
Legacy Health System (kidney): www.legacyhealth.org/transplant
Oregon Health & Science University (kidney, heart, liver, pancreas) www.ohsu.edu/transplant
Portland VA Medical Center (liver, kidney): www.portland.va.gov/pto.asp
Nonprofit Whole Body Donation Programs
Oregon Health & Science University http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/education/schools/school-of-medicine/bodydonation/?WT_rank=1
College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific http://www.westernu.edu/osteopathy-wbp
Donor Families
National Donor Memorial: www.donormemorial.org
National Donor Family Council: www.kidney.org/transplantation/donorFamilies/index.cfm
GriefNet.org: www.griefnet.org
Crisis, Grief, and Healing: www.webhealing.com
Beyond Indigo — Death and Dying: Support for Grief and Loss: www.beyondindigo.com
The Compassionate Friends: www.compassionatefriends.org
Alive Alone: www.alivealone.org
The Dougy Center for Grieving Children and Teens:www.dougy.org
Rainbows Peer Support Group: www.rainbows.org
Sibling Grief and Healing: www.webhealing.com/forums
AARP: www.aarp.org/family/lifeafterloss
Parents Without Partners: www.parentswithoutpartners.org
ShareGrief.com: www.sharegrief.com
The Things You Would Have Said: www.wouldhavesaid.com