Lisle Donor Awareness Day and Organ Donation News Roundup

Yesterday officially marked Donor Awareness Day in Lisle, Ill. Spearheaded by Donate Life Illinois volunteer Colette Jordan, the city of Lisle is helping call attention to the more than 100,000 people waiting for lifesaving organ/tissue transplants. In addition, Colette has pulled together a symposium (Crisis in the Community – Issues Relating to Organ Donation) at College of DuPage to engage the campus community in discussion around the issue.

College of DuPage is also flying a “Donate Life” flag all month to help call attention to the gracious donors and family members that have helped save other people’s lives. Check out this story from last week’s College of Dupage Courier student newspaper (pg. 14).

In other news, Chicago Tribune columnist  Dawn Turner Trice writes today about the importance of registering to be an organ donor.

In addition, the Southtown Star wrote a nice article this week about Angelique Marseille’s volunteer leadership and efforts to promote donation.

Big thanks to Kristen down in St. Louis as well for this great blog post and for doing what she does as a transplant nurse!

-Scott

Donors Are Sexy!

A pair of California graduate students have recently launched a new organ/tissue donation awareness campaign under the theme  “Donors Are Sexy!”

The mission of their effort?

Simple – utilize social media to help people focus on “how good it feels to be an organ donor…by showing in a funny way that organ donors are sexy, smart, savvy and sweet.”

You can hop over to their Web site at donorsaresexy.org as well as check out their blog, Facebook group and YouTube channel.

-Scott