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NewsletterLifeSharers Members
Newsletter MEMBERSHIP UPDATE As of April 30, 2008:
Please let us know if you are on the United Network for Organ Sharing waiting list for an organ. We will make available to relatives of deceased members the names of LifeSharers members who have qualified for preferred access to their loved one’s organs. Please tell your friends, family, and colleagues about LifeSharers. Every new member decreases the chance you’ll die waiting for an organ. Membership is free and open to all at http://www.lifesharers.org or by calling 1-888-ORGAN88. LIFESHARERS IN NEW ZEALAND We’re very pleased to announce that LifeSharers now has an affiliate in New Zealand. You can see a press release at http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0805/S00001.htm. It’s great to see the LifeSharers idea take root internationally. Andy Tookey is director of LifeSharers New Zealand. Andy is founder of GiveLife New Zealand and is New Zealand’s foremost organ donation advocate. The LifeSharers New Zealand web site is at http://www.lifesharers.org.nz. If you’d like to make a financial contribution to support LifeSharers New Zealand, you can do so at http://www.lifesharers.org.nz/contribute.htm. MYSPACE Do you have a MySpace page? If so, please join the LifeSharers group. The following message, received from a LifeSharers member, shows how you can help spread the word about LifeSharers on MySpace: I joined LifeSharers about 18 months ago and hopefully will never need it, but I strongly believe in your policy. I've been an organ donor for many years and one day I read about LifeSharers in our local newspaper and decided to join. GREAT IDEA! My entire family lives 900 miles from me and we decided the best way to see pictures of everyone and keep in touch was for all of us to get a MySpace page. There is a tab that allows for Groups for chatting, etc. You can either join one, start one, blog, whatever, so I entered LifeSharers.org as my group. Yesterday I was revising some areas of my page and clicked the Group tab by accident. Much to my surprise, 7 people I know who have viewed my MySpace page joined Lifesharers.org! What a great way to advertise for free and spread the word not only nationally, but across the globe! The more friends you make who view your page, the more people exposed to LifeSharers and your wonderful organization! Just thought you'd like to know of something that never occurred to me but was a pleasant surprise. MEDIA COVERAGE OF LIFESHARERS Organ donors should top
list for transplant, nonprofit says KTOK Oklahoma City Radio
1000 WICC Bridgeport Radio 600 WMT Cedar Rapids Radio 600 COMMENTARY LifeSharers approach to
organ donation OTHER NEWS Tennessee organ and tissue
donation registry goes online Medical marijuana patients
denied a spot on transplant list Statement by the President
on National Donate Life Month U.S. organ donor
registrations are up 10% in the last 18 months Immigration debate hits
home for liver transplant patients LIFESHARERS BLOG For breaking news and
commentary about LifeSharers, please subscribe to the LifeSharers blog. You can
see it here: Recent posts: Medical marijuana and organ
transplants Should need govern who gets
transplants? Organ transplants for
illegal immigrants Organ donor registrations
are up in the United States Organs for organ donors in
Israel FREE LIFESHARERS BUMPER STICKERS If you’d like a free LifeSharers bumper sticker for your car or truck, email us at info@lifesharers.org. Just tell us how many you want and where we should send them. LIFESHARERS GIFT SHOP The LifeSharers gift shop is open at http://www.cafepress.com/lifesharers. Please help spread the word about LifeSharers by buying and using products that carry our logo and message. Clothing, tote bags, mugs, buttons, magnets, and more are available. If there are other products you think we should add, please email us at info@lifesharers.org. We’ll add them if we can. When you make a purchase from the LifeSharers gift shop, $1 per item goes to support LifeSharers. The rest goes to CafePress.com. LIFESHARERS DISCUSSION GROUP You can communicate with
other LifeSharers members by joining the LifeSharers discussion group on Yahoo!
The purpose of the group is to facilitate discussion about organ donation and
the LifeSharers organ donors network. You can join here: PLEASE HELP SUPPORT LIFESHARERS LifeSharers is staffed by
unpaid volunteers, and we rely on financial support from our members to cover
our operating expenses. Please send us a financial contribution. We’ll put it
to good use recruiting new members and maintaining our web site and member
database. To see how easy it is to contribute to LifeSharers go here: LifeSharers is a qualified 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Contributions to LifeSharers are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law. TO CHANGE YOUR EMAIL SETTINGS If you want your LifeSharers newsletter delivered to a different email address, or if you want to stop receiving it, log in to the Member Services page of our web site at http://www.lifesharers.org/login.asp. Then follow the link for changing your member profile. If you have any questions, email us at info@lifesharers.org.
Thanks again for your support. Dave Undis |
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