Dear donation partners and advocates As you are aware, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and state and local governments and health agencies are responding to an outbreak of respiratory disease caused by a novel (new) coronavirus that was first detected in China and which has now been detected in more than 100 locations [...]
Gift of Hope Raises the Bar on Donation - 3,200 Tissue Donors Sets New Mark Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network helped save and enhance more lives through organ and tissue donation in 2019 than in any other year in its history. During the year, 450 people offered the gift of life through organ [...]
ITASCA, Ill. (Jan. 10, 2019) – In 2017, Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network made history by offering a record number of people the opportunity to say “yes” to becoming organ and tissue donors. Those records were shattered in 2018, with a 67 percent increase in tissue donors and 14 percent increase in organ [...]
Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network applauds the Obama administration announcement to implement key actions to reduce the organ waiting list. Itasca, Ill. (June 13, 2016) - More than 120,000 people are currently on the waiting list for a lifesaving organ. Today’s announcement outlined a new set of actions intended to improve outcomes for [...]
Gift of Hope Offers Thanks to North Suburban Business For Support of Organ and Tissue Donation In a twist on Giving Tuesday, Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network, normally on the receiving end of things in its work to recover and place donor organs with waiting recipients, publicly thanked a Highland Park, Ill., business on [...]
