Bridging lives, One Legacy at a Time

About the Foundation

One Legacy's Foundation provides a complete range of services required.

To effectively recover donated organs and tissues, support donor families, and inspire our diverse communities to donate life.

To understand their goals to save and heal lives through organ, eye and tissue donation.

To focus on a system that envisions one day when they fulfill the needs of donor families and all who require organ, cornea or tissue transplants for their health and well-being.

Mission

To help others understand the needs of this organization because transplantation is still a relatively new and evolving science, it is understandable that people create and spread rumors about organ donation.

A donor’s family is never charged for organ donation. From the moment a family gives consent for donation, One Legacy bears the costs associated with the recovery of organs for transplantation.

However, the family is responsible for all hospital expenses incurred prior to the death of the donor and all funeral expenses.

Values

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Savannah Faith Sides was the daughter of Stephen and Sandy Sides. She was born August 26th 2001 and died May 15th 2007. A miracle from birth, she proved in her short life to be a special child with unusual compassion. A month before her death from a car accident, she chose to be an organ donor. She said, with wisdom beyond her years, "I won't need them in heaven". She was right, but there were more than 4 people here on earth that made good use of her gifts. In the spirit of her generosity and to celebrate her life, her mother and father host the Savannah Faith Miracle Ride to raise awareness and money for someone who is waiting for that gift today.

Her Life’s wish

To fundraise so that we have money to provide conferences, brochures, flyers, and many other things to our community so they will be well educated about organ donations.

We graciously accept charitable contributions in memory or honor of loved ones or in support of our efforts to inspire others to donate life.

INPUTS

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To identify and help the public understand the life-saving and healing benefits of transplantation

To explicate the importance of registering as a donor, and how organ and tissue donation strengthens families and communities.

Hospitals and One Legacy staff work together to provide emotional support to a family facing the loss of a loved one and guide them sensitively through end of life decisions, including the opportunity to donate.

Outputs

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Pro Rodeo Cowboy Ryan Rochlitz is alive today thanks to the generous gift of a donor. Because of his heart transplant, Ryan can still compete in team steer roping competitions and lead a life he loves!

Coming full circle

Hospitals and One Legacy staff work together to provide emotional support to a family facing the loss of a loved one and guide them sensitively through end of life decisions, including the opportunity to donate.

To connect with fundraisers on the importance of donations.

To give support in the aftercare program Putting together a monthly newsletter for donors and

recipients. To juxtapose one donors picture after another’s on

the Rose Parade Float. To be able to dissipate any feeling about donations.

Process

Donate Life has launched a bold new initiative to register 20 million people in 2012 on their state donor registries.

Each Donate Life state team will have a designated week in 2012 to promote

stories of hope about people from their state and share them through the Facebook pages and websites of Donate Life America.

The Goal

One Legacy reaches out to diverse communities with programs that inspire people to donate life.

The foundation focuses on helping the public understand the life-saving and healing benefits of transplantation.

To improving the information and importance of registering as a donor, and how organ and tissue donation strengthens families and communities.

Need in the Community

Community Events

To identify loved ones who lost and have received organ donations through different community events:

Donate Life Rose Parade Float   Donate Life Run/Walk   Niche de Celebration

de Done Vida   Donate Life Kingdom Day Para

de Entry   DMV/Donate Life California Mo

nth   Donate Life Hollywood Inspire

Awards   Frankie Hernandez Legacy of L

ife Baseball Tournament   JJ's Legacy Golf Tournament

To give the Donor families a chance to attend one ceremony, after which they are welcome to participate in various parts of the services.

To answer questions with a donor family newsletter that connects donor families through stories and shared experiences, addresses grief and the healing journey, and provides information about and invitations to participate in Donate Life community events.

How does this use critical thinking ?

To engage actively in a structured counseling and grief support for family and friends.

To propagate an aftercare program that includes bereavement literature, grief support counseling, referrals, follow-up letters, telephone calls, donor family gatherings, and events to honor and remember donors.

To have empathy when dealing with the family and friends of both the donor and recipients.

How does this Promote Critical Action

I personally do not know anyone who has donated to this organization , but it doesn’t mean I don’t have the passion to support this foundation. The presentation that I saw in my Death and Dying course changed my goal for what I wanted to do with my degree. The foundation answers any question you have to help you decipher if this is for you and your family.

The story about the little boy who was struck by a car and his family donated his organs , and saved a small child with terminal cancer; she is 15 years old now.

My Connection

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One Legacy Donate Life One Legacy strives to change the lives of many who need organ, tissue donations. They maximize the importance of this program, with the awareness of how controversy this issue is to most people.

How You Can Help

Performance Measure

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Organ Donors 433 395 401 382 349

Kidneys Tx 665 605 605 561 542

Livers Tx 328 304 295 277 258

Hearts Tx 138 125 138 133 122

Lungs Tx 120 126 136 150 126

Pancreas Tx 80 68 55 49 54

Sm Int Tx 7 5 5 9 0

Total Organs Tx 1338 1233 1233 1234 1101

ORGAN DONATION PERFORMANCE, 2006-2010

Total Registrants: 9,511,285 (As of Oct. 03, 2012, 11:21am PT)