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LifeSharers Members Newsletter
February, 2012

MEMBERSHIP UPDATE

As of January 31, 2012:

• LifeSharers has 14,921 members. This is a 3% increase over last January’s total of 14,425 members. We have members in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.

• 111 LifeSharers members are on the United Network for Organ Sharing’s transplant waiting list. Of these, 104 have qualified for preferred access to the organs of fellow LifeSharers members. Members are eligible for preferred access 180 days after joining LifeSharers.

Please tell your friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues about LifeSharers. Every new member decreases the chance you’ll die waiting for an organ.

LifeSharers membership is free and open to all at http://www.lifesharers.org or by calling 1-888-ORGAN88. There is no age limit, parents can enroll their minor children, and no one is excluded due to any pre-existing medical condition.

SONG ABOUT ORGAN DONATION BY LIFESHARERS MEMBER DAVID KAWIKA CROWLEY

Dave Crowley has been a songwriter for over 40 years in Hawaii (he spent four years in Nashville) with a number of his songs turning into classics over the years in the Hawaiian music scene. He has been a registered organ donor since 1976. Due to the sensitivity of the subject of organ donation, it took Dave close to 20 long years to write a song that could delicately, properly, and powerfully share to a listener the need to become an organ donor. After years of searching, he chose LifeSharers to dedicate the song to, in hopes it would help increase organ donor awareness across the nation and the world

The song is called “The Greatest Gift of Love”. You can watch a video of the song on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ2cf2O-Elo.

You can download a copy of the song in mp3 format at http://www.lifesharers.org/song.aspx.

Please send LifeSharers a contribution of $1 or more if you download the song. Instructions on how to send us a contribution are at http://www.lifesharers.org/contribute.aspx.

Many thanks for Dave for dedicating his song to LifeSharers, and for letting us use it to solicit donations to support our efforts to increase organ donations.

IS YOUR LIFESHARERS PROFILE UP TO DATE?

Have you moved? Do you have a new email address? If so, please update your LifeSharers member profile. It’s easy. Just log in to the Member Services area of our web site at http://www.lifesharers.org/login.aspx, then click on the appropriate link. If you’ve forgotten your MemberID or password, email us at info@lifesharers.org.

PLEASE HELP SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT LIFESHARERS

You could save someone’s life by letting them know about LifeSharers. The life you save could even be your own. As our membership expands, so do your chances of getting an organ transplant if you need one.

Spreading the word about LifeSharers is easy. We’ve listed several ways to tell your family, friends, neighbors, and colleagues about LifeSharers at http://www.lifesharers.org/spreadtheword.aspx.

DO YOU NEED AN ORGAN TRANSPLANT?

If you are on the UNOS transplant waiting list, please let us know by modifying your LifeSharers member profile. We need information about the organs you need, your doctors, and your transplant centers. Without this information, your name will not appear on the list of LifeSharers members who need a transplant.

If you are on the list of LifeSharers members who need a transplant, please check your LifeSharers member profile to make sure we have the correct contact information for you, your doctor, and your transplant center.

If you no longer need a transplant, please let us know by updating your LifeSharers member profile.

To update your LifeSharers member profile, log in to the Member Services area of the LifeSharers web sit at http://www.lifesharers.org/login.aspx.

LIFESHARERS BLOG

For breaking news and commentary about LifeSharers, please subscribe to the LifeSharers blog. You can see it at http://lifesharers.blogspot.com.

Recent posts:

Preferred access drives 16% increase in organ donor cards in Israel
http://lifesharers.blogspot.com/2012/01/preferred-access-drives-16-increase-in.html

Preferred access causes organ donor surge in Israel
http://lifesharers.blogspot.com/2012/01/preferred-access-causes-organ-donor.html

FREE LIFESHARERS BUMPER STICKERS

If you’d like a free LifeSharers bumper sticker for your car or truck, email us at info@lifesharers.org. Just tell us how many you want and where we should send them.

PLEASE HELP SUPPORT LIFESHARERS

LifeSharers is staffed by unpaid volunteers, and we rely on financial support from our members to cover our operating expenses. Please send us a financial contribution. We’ll put it to good use recruiting new members and maintaining our web site and member database. To see how easy it is to contribute to LifeSharers go to http://www.lifesharers.org/contribute.aspx.

LifeSharers is a qualified 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Contributions to LifeSharers are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law.

LIFESHARERS GIFT SHOP

The LifeSharers gift shop is open at http://www.cafepress.com/lifesharers.  Please help spread the word about LifeSharers by buying and using products that carry our logo and message. Clothing, tote bags, mugs, buttons, magnets, and more are available. If there are other products you think we should add, please email us at info@lifesharers.org. We’ll add them if we can. When you make a purchase from the LifeSharers gift shop, $1 per item goes to support LifeSharers. The rest goes to CafePress.com.

LIFESHARERS DISCUSSION GROUP

You can communicate with other LifeSharers members by joining the LifeSharers discussion group on Yahoo! The purpose of the group is to facilitate discussion about organ donation and the LifeSharers organ donors network. You can join at http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/LifeSharers_discussion/join.

TO CHANGE YOUR EMAIL SETTINGS

If you want your LifeSharers newsletter delivered to a different email address, log in to the Member Services page of our web site at http://www.lifesharers.org/login.aspx. Then follow the link for changing your member profile.

If you want to stop receiving the LifeSharers newsletter, go to http://www.lifesharers.org/unsubscribe.aspx. If you have any questions, email us at info@lifesharers.org.

Thanks again for your support.

Dave Undis
Executive Director
daveundis@lifesharers.org