Volunteers are an integral component of the Transplant Center and can assist in a variety of ways!

Patients and families are often the most effective ambassadors for promoting the need, the value, and the benefit of organ donation. Patients and families, with their authentic, compelling stories can help people understand transplantation not just on an intellectual level - but on a heart level as well. There are several opportunities, formal and informal, throughout each year to become involved in educating the public about the need for organs. Examples would include (but are not limited to): assisting at a booth selling tee shirts or distributing information during National Organ Transplant Donor Awareness Week (NOTDAW); speaking at local schools or churches regarding transplant and organ donation; assisting in fund raising or development events.

Interested in Creating Your Personal Fundraising Page to support the Transplant Center?

Are you participating in a University of Michigan event?   Would you like to create an on-line memorial for a loved one, or raise funds for Camp Michitanki, or simply raise general funds for the Transplant Center? Now you can use Firstgiving and its powerful fundraising tools to harness the power of the internet to help you!

Getting started is easy.    It takes just minutes to create your online Personal Fundraising Page.   Be sure to customize the text and the photo on your page to best describe the individual's memorial, event, or camp that you are raising funds for.   Then, just send your link to your email contacts - anyone you think will help you reach your goal.   Your Personal Fundraising Page is a powerful and persuasive way to directly raise money for the Transplant Center.      Click on the link below to get started.

www.firstgiving.com/michigantransplant/

Interested in Assisting With Events?

Many hands are needed to plan and implement any event. The list of activities that require volunteers include the planning, the scheduling, mailings, telephone calls, running errands, preparing fliers, keeping records, setting up for the event, coordinating the volunteers, ticket control, closing down the event, and any number of other activities related to the specific event.

If you would like to share your story, volunteer for an event or perhaps your own event to benefit the Transplant Center, please contact Bob Garypie at 734-936-3460.