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Workplace Partnership for Life Give 5 – Save Lives

The goal of the Give 5 – Save Lives campaign is to register 400,000 new organ donor designations by July 31, 2007. The campaign is bringing together organ procurement organizations and Donate Life America affiliates with companies and organizations that have agreed to educate their employees and members about organ donation and to give them the opportunity to register their donation decisions.

Spearheaded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Give 5 – Save Lives campaign will tap the 11,100 companies and organizations that have already agreed to become “Workplace Partners” in the “Workplace Partnership for Life,” a broader organ donor awareness program created in 2001.

Give 5 – Save Lives is needed because the fact remains that 96,000 Americans are currently awaiting a life-saving organ transplant. An average of 17 to 19 people on the national waiting list die every day because no organ is available. In addition, hundreds of thousands of people could benefit from tissue and eye donations.

The Give 5 – Save Lives campaign, which began on April 2 and runs through July 31, encourages all employers—at corporations, associations, and businesses large and small—to offer three brief, informative, 5-minute sessions to all employees. These can be offered on the web, through email, or through workplace health fairs and donor awareness programs. All are designed not only to provide each employee or member with the opportunity to learn more about the critical importance of organ and tissue donation, but also to make sign-up quick and convenient.

The Workplace Partnership for Life maintains a large database that can help connect Workplace Partners with their local organ procurement organizations and Donate Life America affiliates. The Give 5 – Save Lives campaign encourages partnerships that will help educate employees and the broader public about the need for organ donors. The initiative includes specific suggestions for how these partnerships can effectively encourage employees and others to register to become organ donors.

The campaign was developed by a national leadership team of representatives from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration, Donate Life America, United Network for Organ Sharing, Eye Bank Association of America, American Association of Tissue Banks, Association of Organ Procurement Associations’ PR/PE Council, and various organ procurement organizations and Workplace Partners.

For more information about the Workplace Partnership for Life Give 5 – Save Lives campaign, visit www.akoyaonline.com/wpfl or contact Shelly Morningstar at or 412-481-9800.