Resources

Donation Resources
Donate Life North Carolina is associated with several organizations dedicated to answering your questions about donation. Use the links below to find agencies specializing in organ, eye, tissue, marrow and blood donation, in addition to professional organizations and governing bodies.

Click below to link to useful donation and transplantation resources.

American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB)
www.aatb.org
Professional organization serving tissue banks

The American Red Cross
www.redcross.org/
Blood donation and emergency assistance

The Carolinas Center for Hospice and End of Life Care
www.carolinasendoflifecare.org
Resources for end-of-life care and counseling

Carolina Donor Services
www.carolinadonorservices.org
Organ procurement organization covering Eastern, Central and Northwestern NC.

Commission on Anatomy
www.commissiononanatomy.ncdhhs.gov
Oversees bodies donated for the study of anatomy in the state of North Carolina. It also oversees the disposition of unclaimed bodies.

Donate Life America
www.donatelife.net
National coalition for organ, eye and tissue donation education

Eye Bank Association of America
www.restoresight.org
Professional association for eye banks

Health Services and Resources Administration (HRSA)
www.hrsa.gov/
Government resource on donation and transplantation

Life in Limbo Foundation
www.lifeinlimbofoundation.org
Assisting the families of transplant patients

LifeShare Of The Carolinas
www.lifesharecarolinas.org
Organ procurement organization and eye bank covering Southwestern North Carolina

National Kidney Foundation of NC
www.nkfnc.org
Assisting kidney patients

The National Marrow Program
www.marrow.org
National bone marrow donor registry

NC Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV)
www.ncdot.org/dmv
Maintains NC donor registry

North Carolina Eye Bank
www.nceyebank.org
Facilitating eye donations in NC

North Carolina Lions Foundation
www.nclf.org/
Promoting organ, eye and tissue donation through civic work

United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS)
www.unos.org
Provides organ transplantation oversight and manages the National waiting list.

Vesta Therapeutics
www.vestatherapeutics.com/
Liver therapy research company