Transplant Foundation

Transplant Foundation is committed to supporting the mission of gift of life donor program through its commitment to:- improve the quality of life of patients awaiting transplantation by maximizing the availability of donor organs and tissues while upholding the highest medical, legal, ethical and fiscal standards through initiatives such as educational and informational programming to the community at large through the special events and clinical trainings supported by Transplant Foundation to the medical community through its gift of life institute;continued on schedule o.- work in partnership with the region's hospitals and health care professionals to ensure that the family of every potential donor is offered the opportunity to support organ and tissue donation in a compassionate, timely, informative and caring manner;- provide educational programs and materials to positively predispose all members of the community to organ and tissue donation so that donation is viewed as a fundamental human responsibility through programming such as donors are heroes grants;- serve as a community resource by providing support for families of donors as well as Transplant recipients and their families through programs such as its regional Transplant family support grant program which focuses on supporting those who travel for Transplant related services in the hershey/harrisburg, allentown, reading, northeastern Pennsylvania, bryn mawr and Delaware area Transplant centers. Lodging and supportive services are also provided to patients and caregivers travelling for Transplant services to the philadelphia area through gift of life howie's house. Additionally, scholarships such as the jessica beth schwartz college scholarship program are provided to support advancement of recipients;- serve as a leader in the advancement of organ and tissue donation and transplantation through state of the art training & consulting offered by gift of life institute, as well as through funding the innovative research in support of donation & transplantation grant program initially established in 2015.in addition to its ongoing community education and grant programs, and the programming through its gift of life institute, Transplant Foundation continues to support gift of life howie's house, a ronald mcdonald house-type setting, where families of patients undergoing transplants at Transplant centers in the philadelphia region are accommodated near the site of the surgery and for follow-up visits. The Foundation supported the planning, design and program development, construction and now the operations of the gift of life howie's house.transplant Foundation's primary exempt purpose is to support the mission of gift of life donor program as detailed above in part iii a. Specifically, Transplant Foundation fulfilled its mission in 2022 through its ongoing support of the gift of life institute, the organization of the team philadelphia entry into the Transplant games of america, gift of life donor dash, the living donor ceremony, and its on-going support of the innovative research in support of donation and transplantation grant program. Transplant Foundation also supports community educational programming through grants issued to schools and houses of worship, and scholarships. In addition to the program expenses supporting these initiatives, Transplant Foundation continued its regional Transplant family support grant program which focuses on supporting those who travel for their Transplant related care to Transplant centers in the harrisburg/hershey, allentown, reading, northeastern Pennsylvania, bryn mawr, and Delaware area by funding certain food, lodging and supportive services. Additionally, Transplant Foundation extended support through a grant for the on-going operation of gift of life howie's house.