The Colby Foundation is proud to offer you a variety of information and services through this website. We have worked hard to provide quality information, basic factual data, and the personal side to Organ and Tissue Donation. We also encourage you to get involved in a variety of ways and be a strong advocate for organ and tissue donation both personally and in your community.

Since we accept our limitations, we extend this list of related links to you. These links are provided to help further your knowledge and advocacy base. If you find a link that would be good for us to have, please contact us [1] and share the information. Also be aware that this is not an exhaustive list, but a list of organization we have had conversations with and feel confident passing along to you.

Donate Life America [2]
Donate Life America is a not-for-profit alliance of national organizations and local coalitions across the United States dedicated to inspiring all people to save and enhance lives through organ, eye and tissue donation.

United Network for Organ Sharing [3]
Nonprofit, scientific and educational organization that administers the United States’ only organ procurement and transplantation network.

Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) [4]
OPTN maintains the only national patient waiting list and features the most comprehensive data available in any single field of medicine.

OrganDonor.gov [5]
Created by the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services.

Office of Minority Health [6]
The Office of Minority Health offers basic information about organ and tissue donation as it relates to minority populations.

National MOTTEP [7] National MOTTEP®, the National Minority Organ and Tissue Transplant Education Program, is the first program of its kind in the country designed to educate, empower, and increase participation among minority communities.

JRI – James Redford Institute for Transplant Awareness [8]
JRI is a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating the public about the need for organ and tissue donation through film, educational outreach and the web.

California Transplant Donor Network [9]  Transplant network serving Northern/Central California and Northern Nevada by saving and improving lives through organ and tissue donation

Center for Organ Recovery and Education [10] CORE is the Organ Procurement Organization serving counties in western Pennsylvania, West Virginia and a portion of New York.

LifeLink [11] A non-profit community service organization dedicated to the recovery of an increasing number of high quality organs and tissue for transplantation therapy in the Southeast. The Foundation attempts to work in a sensitive, diligent, and compassionate manner with donor families to facilitate the donation of desperately needed organs and tissues for waiting patients.

LifeShare Transplant Donor Services of Oklahoma [12] A donor registry available to residents of the State of Oklahoma as well as working to educate the community about organ and tissue donation.

Living Legacy at LifeCenter Northwest [13] The public education portion of LifeCenter Northwest.  Living Legacy works to educate the Northwest community about organ and tissue donation.

New England Organ Bank [14]  Organ and tissue bank promoting the recovery, preservation and distribution of organs and tissues for transplantation.

National Donor Family Council [15]
The Council provides information and support to donor families and professionals.

Transplant Recipients International Organization [16]
TRIO is an independent, nonprofit organization committed to improving the quality of life of transplant candidates, recipients, their families and the families of organ and tissue donors.

Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine [17]
A professional medical college offering the following degrees: Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine/Master of Business Administration, Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine/Doctor of Philosophy.  OSU-CHS is the first institution to be granted the Colby Cassani Endowed Lectureship Series

Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine [18]  LECOM is the fastest growing medical college in the country and offers some of the most innovative learning programs on campuses in Erie, Pennsylvania; Bradenton, Florida; and Greensburg, Pennsylvania.  In addition to the Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine Degree, LECOM offers a Doctor of Pharmacy as well as a Masters of Science in Medical Education Degrees.  LECOM's Erie and Bradenton campuses held their first CCELS in 2009.  The CCELS will take place in Greensburg in 2010

Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences [19] focuses on training a new generation of primary care physicians and health professionals who live and work in the rural communities they serve.  These new providers will care for and treat their neighbors with an emphasis on preventative health care.  PNWU-COM's first CCELS will take place in 2010

Lincoln Memorial University DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine [20]  seeks to attract and train future medical practitioners to serve the needs of the southern Appalachian region.  Students receive a rigorous, demanding and rewarding medical education in a new, state-of-the-art facility by faculty who are national leaders in the profession with several decades of experience.  The curriculum is a didactic, systems-based approach to learning based on the current state of the ever-expanding knowledge base.  Students will contribute to exploration of the cutting edge of medicine.  LMU-COM's first CCELS will take place in 2010

American Osteopathic Association [21]
Features information about osteopathic medicine, physician finder, publications, local resources and more.

American Medical Association [22]
Helping doctors help patients.

GoodSearch [23]
The Colby Foundation benefits when you choose and use the GoodSearch search engine. Go to the GoodSearch website whenever you want to perform an internet search. Identify the Colby Foundation as your charity of choice. When you search, the Foundation receives a donation.