Since we first launched the Greatest Gift Foundation in October 2007, I’ve been doing what I can to get started on the good work we envision it can do. We held our first big fundraiser, we rocked the Transplant Games, I’ve talked to living donor/transplant care coordinators at several hospitals around the country, we’ve connected several [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Foundation activities’
The Greatest Gift Foundation gets “bona fide”
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, tagged Foundation activities, Living organ donation on August 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Anatomy of a transplant care coordinator
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Foundation activities, Networking on June 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Living donors, you know a lot about what I’m about to talk about. Transplant care coordinators, a required mainstay at every transplant program in the country, are an instrumental part of the experience we go through. They are our gatekeepers, confidants, blood-drawers and needle-pokers, our advocates, weight-measurers and phone call answerers. They are the ones [...]
On origins and organs
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Foundation activities on May 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Beginnings can be deceiving. Looking at this blog, you might read this post and see it as the entry that started it all. You might think my chronicles and commentary on living organ donation begin here, or that the Greatest Gift Foundation begins here. In a way, they do — because with this post, I officially [...]