AlloSource Becomes A Donate Life Partner After Almost 20 Years Of Honoring The Gift Of Donation

The Wall Street Journal 

CENTENNIAL, Colo., June 19, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AlloSource, one of the nation's largest non-profit providers of skin, bone and soft tissue allografts for use in surgical procedures and the world's largest processor of cellular bone allografts announced today that it has become a Donate Life Partner.

Through the new partnership with Donate Life America (DLA), AlloSource is investing in the great work that DLA does to increase the number of lives saved or healed through organ, eye and tissue donation and transplantation. Since its inception, DLA has provided more than $50 million to save and enhance lives through donation. As a Donate Life Partner, AlloSource will support DLA's network of national coalition partners in their efforts to motivate the American public to register as organ, eye and tissue donors.

"AlloSource's decision to deepen our relationship with Donate Life America was natural since the company's mission to honor the gift of donation by responsibly developing, processing and distributing life-saving and life-enhancing tissue for our communities, aligns with everything DLA does," said Thomas Cycyota, President and CEO of AlloSource. "We have seen firsthand the powerful impact tissue donation has on a donor family's grieving process, as well as the impact that donor tissue has on the recipients who so desperately need it. AlloSource is honored to be a part of the work that DLA does."

DLA is uniquely positioned to lead the nation to accept organ, eye and tissue donation as a fundamental human responsibility. Evidence shows that consent for tissue donation is twice as likely when organ donation has been designated. Hundreds of thousands of people are in need of tissue transplants to help them resume their quality of life and DLA directly impacts access to tissue donation.

"Our partnership with AlloSource allows us to further our efforts to create a national culture of donation," said David Fleming, President and CEO of Donate Life America. "I commend AlloSource for making a powerful statement to its employees, customers and partners that it is committed to doing all it can to continue increasing access to tissue transplants."
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"You have the power to SAVE lives." 
To register as a donor in California: 
www.donateLIFEcalifornia.org | www.doneVIDAcalifornia.org 
Outside California: 
www.organdonor.gov | www.donatelife.net


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