The Todd Krampitz Foundation

One family's loss can translate into the gift of life for another.

Did you know:

According to Unos: There are 89,909 people on the waiting list. There have been 16,447 transplants this year and 8,487 donors in 2005
According to the Donate Life website:
- More than 88,000 men, women and children currently await life-saving transplants.
- Every 12 minutes another name is added to the national transplant waiting list.
- An average of 17 people die each day from the lack of available organs for transplant.
- In 2004, there were 7,150 deceased organ donors and 6,990 living organ donors resulting in 27,028 organ transplants.
- Nearly 47,000 cornea transplants were performed in 2004.
- Approximately 1,000,000 tissue transplants are performed annually.
You can be a living organ donor as well as inform your family upon your death you would like to be an organ and tissue donor so that you can help save and enhance over 50 lives.
Ideally, it is a good idea to donate blood once every quarter. Every two seconds someone in the United States needs blood. That's a lot of blood. Sadly only 5% of the eligible US population donates blood in any given year. Blood is needed for emergencies and for people that have cancer, blood disorders, sickle cell, anemia and other illnesses.
Each year over 35,000 men, women and children are diagnosed with a life threatening disease where their only hope for survival is a bone marrow transplant, sign up today to be on the national registry as a bone marrow donor. The next time you donate blood ask if there is a representative there for you to sign up to be a marrow donor.
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