Each New Year's Day, the world focuses its attention on Pasadena, California, home of the Rose Parade, Rose Bowl Game and the Donate Life Rose Parade Float. Supported by dozens of donation and transplantation organizations nationwide, the Donate Life Rose Parade Float promotes a positive image for organ and tissue donation and transplantation on a world-class stage. Each year, the float involves hundreds of volunteer decorators, including transplant recipients, donor family members, float partners, employees and their families.
April: National Donate Life Month
National Donate Life Month was instituted by Donate Life America and its members in 2003, and grew out of the federally proclaimed National Organ, Eye and Tissue Donation Awareness Week. National Donate Life Month features an entire month of local, regional and national activities to help encourage Americans to become a donor.
Join us for lunch and help us raise funds to support our programs and services aimed at increasing the number of people who sign up on the donor registry. Over 400 transplant professionals and community members are expected to join us in celebrating our life-saving mission.
August 2: National Minority Donor Awareness Day
National Minority Donor Awareness Day reaches out to minorities and focuses on the various fears and associated with donation, encourages healthy living, disease prevention, and promotes life-saving organ, eye, and tissue donation.
September 15 - October 15: National Hispanic Heritage Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month celebrates the culture and traditions of U.S. residents with Hispanic roots. It is used as an opportunity to celebrate and honor the gifts of life made by Hispanics through donation and to encourage Hispanics to commit to donation.
November - December: Give Thanks. Give Life
November and December are traditionally celebrated nationwide as a time of hope and giving. The gifts passed to others by organ, eye, and tissue donation are honored and celebrated during this time. These selfless acts of love and generosity provide hope to the 100,000 men, women and children waiting for a life-saving organ transplant and thousands more waiting for a life-enhancing tissue or cornea transplant. Join us in spreading the message that by giving of ourselves through organ, eye, and tissue donation, we give the gift of life.