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The Donor Family Network Inc. was started by two moms that lost their sons within months of each other. Both families chose to donate their children’s organs. After the two met they decided to start a support group for donor families. We have continued to grow from meeting other family members and being a big support to the new families. Having someone that has gone through the same thing you have tends to mean something when they say "I know how you feel". We’ve provided newsletters, pins, and many bereavement materials for the members of our group. We have also helped sponsor 5 local families to go to Pasadena CA for the Rose Parade because their loved one’s picture was on the donate life float. The donor families, without whom the miracle of organs and tissue donation does not happen. The Donor Family Network Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit volunteer organization that provides crisis support and aftercare to organ and tissue donor families, and works to raise donor awareness. We work alongside transplant recipients, living donors, caregivers, and supporters to about organ and tissue donation at numerous schools, businesses, churches, hospitals and anywhere the agencies ask us to speak. It has grown into training donor family members that wanted to honor their loved ones and we started speaking in public about what our loved ones did. From there we became part of Team Finger Lakes for the US Transplant Games of America. We are providing financial assistance to donor families and the recipients traveling to the Transplant Games of America, where many families meet recipients for the first time. The Donor Family Network has supported dozens of donor families in Central New York.
