About Us
How We're Helping
We are a Wisconsin 501 (c) (3) nonprofit focused on saving lives through organ, eye, and tissue donation. With the help of our tireless executive board, donors, supporters and volunteers, we organize fundraisers, community-building events, and in-depth educational sessions.
Get Involved
Are you passionate about what we're doing? Let us know! We are always looking for volunteers to help us make our vision a reality. We'll help you find a way to volunteer that best suits you. We're excited to have you join the team!
Thank You
Whether you help through monetary donations, volunteering your time, or spreading our mission through word-of-mouth, thank you. We couldn't accomplish our goals without the help of supporters like you.
Organ Donation Information & Facts
How to Register
You can register to be an organ, eye, and tissue donor at DonateLifeWisconsin.org. Always make sure you register at the DMV and add the orange "donor" sticker on your license as well! Signing the back of your license is not enough, so make sure you register online too!
How does donation work?
Organ donation can be procured through living donors and deceased donors. Living donation is determined based on extensive medical matching. Deceased donation occurs once the donor has passed. The surgical team removes the organs and tissues from the donor's body in an operating room. Organs are recovered, and then additional authorized tissues such as bone, cornea, and skin.
(Information: organdonor.gov)
Statistics & Numbers
- 8 LIVES can be saved when you register!
- 22 people die every day while waiting for a transplant.
- 120k+ people are on the waiting list.
- Every 10 minutes another patient is added to the waiting list.
- Organ donation doesn't cost the donor's family any money. (More information at organdonor.gov)
Important Facts
Fact: Organ donation is consistent with the beliefs of most major religions.
Fact: Living donation increases the existing organ supply.
Fact: An open-casket funeral is possible for organ and tissue donors.
(Information: DonateLife.org)
What can be donated?
Organs and tissue that can be donated include: heart, kidneys, lungs, pancreas, liver, intestines, corneas, skin, tendons, bone, nerve and heart valves.
Talk to your family & friends
Share your decision to be an organ and tissue donor with family and friends. Make sure they know your wishes and what you want to donate for transplant. You have the power to save up to 8 people's lives!
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$100.00
Your generous gift will help us promote organ, eye and tissue donation in the State of Wisconsin; register organ donors; educate the community about the importance; and save lives, one donor at a time.