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- Young transplant recipient and family vow to pay forward their gift
- ‘You have to live like your donor is watching you’
- You gave me your heart so I could live my dreams
- Year-long partnership brings in $75K to Gift of Life Foundation
- Workplace partnerships expand our reach
- Who we are and what we do: the organ donation process at Gift of Life Michigan
- Who Can Donate a Kidney?
- What Tissue can be Donated?
- What Organs Can Be Donated
- Welcome to the blog!
- We need your help!
- Volunteers create comfort for grieving families
- Volunteer Spotlight: Longtime volunteer honors her daughter by teaching others about donation
- Volunteer Spotlight: Gift of lungs motivates Debora Dearring to share her own spirit and compassion
- Volunteer Spotlight: Chris Kowalski speaks while he waits for a life-saving heart transplant
- Volunteer Spotlight: Recipient launches charity, raises money in honor of 20th anniversary of her lung transplant
- Volunteer Spotlight: Scott Campbell shares message of hope after 2nd heart transplant
- Virtual Donate Life Day at the Zoo brings zoo to you
- Gift of Life veteran leader receives national Lifetime Achievement award
- Using digital marketing to save lives
- U.S. reaches historic milestone of 1 million organ transplants
- Two-time kidney recipient inspires others to lead healthier lives
- Transplant Throwback: Kay Walters
- Transplant Throwback: Guadalupe Alejos
- Transplant Throwback: Carol Cerny
- Transplant community works together to improve efficiencies
- Transplant Candidates
- Staff Spotlight: Tragedies and legacies
- Tracy and Holly: a Love Story
- Tissue donor changes life for breast cancer survivor
- Born a hero
- ‘This community has really touched my heart’
- Think again if you believe you’re too old to be a donor
- The Greatest Heart Hug
- Thank you to all our HOSA heroes!
- Teen leaves legacy of kindness, faith and healing
- Team Michigan heads to San Diego for the Donate Life Transplant Games
- Talking to your family about organ, tissue and eye donation
- Staff Spotlight: Todd Hart is responsible for organs on their journey to transplant
- Staff Spotlight: For a decade, Stephanie Sommer has been the face of Gift of Life for MEs and funeral homes
- Staff Spotlight: Michigan donors contribute to groundbreaking research
- Staff Spotlight: Cindy Zarate takes care of donors in the days, hours and minutes before they give their final gifts
- Staff Spotlight: As a donation educator, Taneisha Carswell knows when to talk and when to listen
- Sparrow Hospital nurse earns statewide donation champion award from Gift of Life Michigan
- Southgate woman celebrates new adventures, life milestones
- ‘She’s like another daughter’
- ‘She had a higher purpose’
- Seeking Gift of Life Champion Nominations
- Saginaw man determined to regain health, mobility
- Rick Springfield and a mountain top: Milford woman donates kidney to sister-in-law, with a few friendly caveats
- Volunteer Spotlight: Remembering Kenton Kurth
- Record number of organ donors save lives in 2021
- Gift of Life Michigan sets record for organ, tissue donors in 2022
- Rally in Lansing will celebrate new legislation placing donor registry question on state income tax forms
- Proposed state bills would educate and register more donors
- Proposed organ transplant system reforms miss the mark
- Promise kept: Ann Arbor man advocates for organ donation two decades after receiving new liver from murder victim
- Point of Pride: Gift of Life earns prestigious Great Place to Work distinction
- Placenta donation offers super-healing powers to patients in need
- Patients who recover from Covid-19 can still donate organs, tissue
- Our work continues: A COVID-19 update
- What is the Age Limit for Organ & Tissue Donation?
- ‘Organ donation was the right thing to do’
- Organ donation vehicles are hope on wheels
- Organ donation awareness is key in multicultural communities
- Organ donation advocate works to break down myths
- World record 132 heart recipients gather to celebrate new life on Valentine’s Day
- ‘Why wouldn’t I do that for another person?”
- Why I walk: Raising organ donor awareness
- West Branch couple honored for volunteer efforts
- Wayne State University, Siena Heights University and Mott Community College tops in statewide competition
- Wayne State University and WMU Stryker M.D. School of Medicine win statewide competition
- Wayne State University and Siena Heights University win coveted trophies in statewide organ donor drive competition.
- Wayne State University and Siena Heights University are tops in statewide organ donor drive competition at college campuses
- Wayne State University and Calvin College Win Campus Challenge
- Wayne State and WMU Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine top statewide competition
- Wayne County M.E. honored by Gift of Life Michigan
- Virtual activities highlight National Donate Life Month
- ‘True purpose:’ Canton kidney transplant recipient dedicates himself to organ donation education, advocacy
- From tragedy to hope: chaplain brings light to families in dark times
- Thanksgiving marks special anniversary for local family
- Teen saves five lives through donation
- Symposium to address organ donation, health disparities
- Students inspire 2,287 Michigan residents to donate life
- Student non-profit honored by Gift of Life Michigan
- Student group raises $75K for Gift of Life Foundation
- Statewide registration drive nets 319,000 new organ donors in 2010
- State Sen. Curtis Hertel Jr. introduces bill to pave way for organ recoveries at Gift of Life surgical center in Ann Arbor
- St. Johns woman celebrates 21 years with donated lung
- St. John Transplant, DMC and University of Michigan top statewide competition to register new organ, eye and tissue donors
- Spectrum Butterworth Hospital honored by Gift of Life Michigan
- SOS Clerks Will Ask the Question
- ‘Simply, it saves lives’
- Secretary of State Ruth Johnson Receives Community Service Award
- Secretary of State manager honored as Donation Champion
- Secretary of State Change Adds Thousands to Registry
- Secretary of State, advocates kick off Donate Life Month at Wayne State University
- ‘A second chance at life is exactly what she got’
- School rivals compete to save and heal lives through Gift of Life Michigan Campus Challenge
- Roseville family turns tragedy into hope for others
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- ZaQuan Hrobowski
- Zachery Ruthruff
- Zachary (Ziggy) Mrosewske
- Zachary Michael Holmes
- Zachary Austin Mohr
- Zachary Allyn Woodcock
- Zachary A. Woodcock
- Zachary
- Zachariah Carson Jacobs
- Zachariah Bassage
- Zach Holloway
- Zaccary West
- Yolanda C. Mitchell
- Willie Junior Perkins
- Willie James Carroll II
- William T. Gorney
- William S. Halmo
- William Ryan Mulhern
- William Patmore
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- William Mathias HuBer
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- William John Huston
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- William G. Milliman II
- William Fries
- William Deyell
- William Clement Harris III
- William C. Humphrey Sr.
- William (Bill) Keith Stevens
- William “Bill” Gowin
- William Beauford Camby
- William Andrew Marshall
- William Aloysius Petrick
- Willard Harvey Vanderhoof
- Wendy Gott
- Wendie R. Pomerico
- Wendell James Clark
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- Welty Harrison Swank
- Wayne R. Briley
- Wayne Mater
- Wayne Irick
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- Wayne Ginste
- Wayne G. Becker
- Wayne Foster
- Warrenia Jones
- Warren (Pete) Cales
- Wana Ekorn
- Walter Hellwege
- Walter A Clay
- Wallis Skaggs
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- Wade Raviler
- Wade Hager
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- Vincent Schultes
- Victoria Rose Proctor
- Victor Springer
- Victor L. Arens
- Victor Cole
- Vaughn Allen Smith
- Vanessa Lodge
- Van Kirk Carlson
- Valerie Ann Mathews Howard
- Valda Helen Bergman Lambert
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Testimonials
Leadership Team Members
Videos
- We’re Here to Honor Life Through Donation
- The gift of tissue donation for breast reconstruction
- the blink: World Kidney Day
- the blink: Mary Jo
- the blink: Dr. Collier
- the blink: Bill
- Sherry Johnson – the gift is coming
- Self-Care Series: Young Widows & Widowers
- Self-Care Series: virtual support to reach your goals
- Self-care Series: the Power of Pets
- Self-Care: Nature Therapy
- Saving Michael Love
- Pam Powell, 20+ years of new life
- Organ donor saves high school athlete who then literally pays it forward
- Let’s Talk: What Makes Gift of Life Michigan a Great Place to Work?
- Let’s Talk: What happens after I join the Donor Registry?
- Let’s Talk: Living Kidney Donation
- LET’S TALK: Innovations that save lives
- Let’s Talk: Donor Family Stories
- Let’s Talk: Community Building with Michigan Humane
- Let’s Talk: Check Your Heart
- Let’s Talk: August is National Minority Donor Awareness Month
- Let’s Talk: All of Us (Youth Outreach)
- Lauren’s Heart
- Jade’s Story
- It can happen to anyone: Rachel’s story
- Honoring Amaia
- Grief is Where Love Lived First: Part 4
- Grief Is Where Love Lived First: Part 1
- Be a Light to Those Who Are Waiting
- All of Us: High School Outreach to Educate and Inspire
- 50 Years of Honoring Life Through Donation
- Grief Is Where Love Lived First: Part 2
- Grief is Where Love Lived First: Part 3 | Hearing and Healing Our Children
- Let’s Talk / Hablemos: Aimee Cruz, liver transplant recipient / receptora de trasplante de hígado
- 2021 Virtual Donate Life Day at the Zoo Program
- The Greatest Charity You Can Perform – Imam Mohamed Almasmari
- Your Decision to Donate
- Waiting to Live: Teresa’s Story
- Chad and Mary: It’s a Love Story!
- Michael Love Wants Us to Stop Sharing Myths
- Gift of Life Michigan | Let’s Talk 2019
- Zahraa’s Story
- Opportunities to Donate After Hospice Care
- Terra DeFoe Dispels One of the Most Common Myths About Organ Donation
- A Matter of Faith
- Honor Walk for Detroit Firefighter Michael Lubig
- Gift of Life Michigan: The Organ Donation Process
- #LetsTalkTuesday with Gift of Life Michigan’s Medical Examiner and Funeral Home Liaisons
Venues
- Wayne State University
- Virtual Event
- United Skates of America
- Suburban Collection Showplace
- Michigan State Capitol Building
- Little Caesars Arena
- John Ball Zoo
- Jersey Mike’s
- Inn at St. John’s
- Hoffman’s Deco Deli and Cafe
- Gift of Life Michigan
- Flint Farmers’ Market
- Fellowship Chapel
- East Lansing Public Library
- Eagle Eye Golf & Banquet Center
- Dow Event Center
- Comerica Park
- Children’s Hospital of Michigan
- Belle Isle State Park, Detroit
- BATL Novi
- Ascension St. John Hospital
- Art Moran Buick GMC