Support TRIO :

(NEW) Donate to TRIO by shopping online: Click here and identify your 'cause' as Transplant Recipients International. A portion of each purchase you make is donated to TRIO! It's an easy way to GIVE! It costs you nothing in addition to your purchase.

To support TRIO financially through general support or memorial contributions, click here to Download a Contribution Form (PDF 60k) and mail in your contribution..

Join a TRIO Chapter

first, locate a TRIO Chapter near you by clicking on this title, then join that TRIO Chapter by Downloading a Membership Form (PDF 76k) or if there is no local chapter in your area...

click here to Join TRIO as a member-at-large

Volunteer with your local chapter or on a National Committee

Become an organ donor

Contribute through the Combined Federal Campaign and the United Way

Donate your frequent flyer miles! United Airlines frequent flyer miles are urgently needed to provide FREE transplant-related air travel to donors and recipients click here for Travel Program details

What Can TRIO do for YOU?

Click this title to find out how TRIO serves the community.

TRIO Liaisons

The national TRIO  Board of Directors has established liaison roles for ongoing contact and communication wth major transplant organizations.  Contact them [Visit Liaisons] if you can help or need their services in communicating with those organizations.

Communication Guides

Guidelines for both Recipient/Donor Communications as well as a new Sensitive Terminology for Organ Donation guide are available under Communications. Please review these guidelines for your use in your presentations and discussions.

TRIO needs YOU!

The national TRIO  Board of Directors is composed of TRIO members who take the  cause to a new level of dedication and active participation, providing leadership at the national level (...while maintaining active roles in their local TRIO Chapters).  If you have the skills and interest, use the "Contact" link on bottom of this page to ask for more information.

PS: There are also many opportunities to participate on national committees, so please consider that too when you contact us.  For a current list of TRIO committees, their aims and committee member names, download the Committee 2007 PDF document here.

TRIO Chapter Activity Reports

On the Active Chapter list click on each Activity Report link for ideas and best practices.

Participate in our TRIO Survey

You can help TRIO create a more accurate profile of the everyday economic and healthcare realties facing the transplant-related community. Please take a few minutes to fill in the TRIO Survey.

TRIO issues formal Position Statement on  Incentives for Organ Donation
    TRIO's Board of Directors has adopted a Position Statement that TRIO supports the concept that reward for organ donation must be studied in America. 
       - Read TRIO's official Position Statement  <--click to download 76k PDF document)
       - Read Press Release issued on November 19, 2008  <--click to download 73k PDF document)
       - Click to go to Bulletin Board topic to post your comments

TRIO member featured in Study Report
Claude Brady (heart transplant 6-89), long time TRIO chapter founder and member, is featured in this study report (click to download the 712kb PDF document -->) titled: The First Patient Clinically Diagnosed with Hypertropic Cardiomyopathy

"The Gift That Heals" author offers story
    Read Reg Green's beautiful article - just click on this link
--> Donor Family Treated Like Royalty.
For many who wanted to know more after hearing that his book, "The Gift that Heals," was such a hit at the ITNS/TRIO Symposium in St. Louis (see event story below), it tells the inspiring stories of families at every stage of the transplantation process. Update: The Gift That Heals has just become the first transplant book to be released in an audio version!  Congratulations Reg!!  ... for more information on the audio book please contact Nolan Estes at 888 519 5121 ext 5571 (nestes@authorhouse.com). For the soft or hard cover print versions call 888 280 7715.

 TRIO 2008 Fall Conference with ITNS Huge Success


TRIO joined with the ITNS (International Transplant Nurses Society) Sept 25-27th, 2008 at the Millennium Hotel in St. Louis for an exciting convention filled with educational workshops and over 400+ transplant nurses from 17 countries around the world.   Click on the article titles below for the full story or to download the handout...

• Article: TRIO Holds 2008 Symposium in St. Louis, MO
• Article: TRIO Delivers Global Thank You's to ITNS Nurses
  
• Article: TRIO Scholarship Winner's Impressions from the 2008 Conference
• Article: TRIO Thanks Symposium Sponsors
• Article: Thank you letters posted for nurses around the world to read (last updated 1/9/09 with several hundred eventually  being posted)
• Article: Reactions to Thank You letters
• Download: Presenter, Vanessa Underwood's Fitness Handout (190k PDF)
  

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Transplantation in the News
World News Headlines on Organ donation and transplant

Every day transplantation makes the news in many places around the globe.  To help you keep up on the most important and interesting of those stories, we regularly update the following news links:
Current articles (click on the title to read that news). . .

• Donor Lungs Made To Breathe Outside Body
  
• New article in the FASEB Journal shows two-way exchange of molecules between donor and recipient
• CVS slashes generic drug costs, escalates price war
• AST Employee Leave & Organ Donation Program ( a great set of resources for taking action!)

UNOS Calling for Public Comment on Proposed Policies
"Your chance to be heard!" 
    UNOS policy proposals are continually being offered for public comment,now in a more user-friendly format. These proposals highlight proposed changes by the many committees that support UNOS in its work and policy making process.  After a public comment period ends,  the sponsoring committees review all feedback and make necessary modifications before passing their final recommendation on to the OPTN/UNOS Board of Directors who in turn review and vote on these proposals at their quarterly meetings, leading to implementation of those that gain such final approval.  You are encouraged to become part of this process by offering comment when invited by those announcements which are listed on the http://www.optn.org/policiesAndBylaws/publicComment/proposals.asp web site or  Click to read proposal details and offer comment .
Thank you,  Mike Sosna, Chair, TRIO Public Policy Committee

Current Call for Public Comment:
    OPTN/UNOS Kidney Transplantation Committee is soliciting public input on concepts that may be used together in developing a future policy proposal. The deadline for responses is December 15, 2008. Responses will be incoroporated into additional public  discussion, including a public forum tentatively scheduled for Janury 26, 2009. Click to read a synopsis and find out how you can take action.
Also there are four more proposals for your review and comment at
http://www.optn.org/policiesAndBylaws/publicComment/proposals.asp

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TRIO Lifelines Newsletters on-line
Archived issues of the quarterly TRIO newsletter, Lifelines, are now  available under the Communications link above.  The January, April and August 2008 issues are posted.  Come back in the weeks ahead as we add more past issues.

TRIO 2009 Scholarship Application is now avaulable.
Please click here to access the 2009 Scholarship Application form. The completed form must be completed and submitted in hard copy. The deadline is June 30, 2009.

Transplant Book Reviews Now On-line
There are so many excellent educational and inspiring books both about transplant and patient stories, what to read (of give as gifts)?  In our Communications section there are now over seventy-nine transplant related book titles, including a constantly growing list of newly released excellent reads, many of which are reviewed by a transplant patient as a guide to your own reading interests.

    New reviews added include:
                            

    Also, contribute to the discussion and add your own comments about these and other books on the TRIO Bulletin Board.

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TRIO's Past News Items . . .
(click on titles below to read their full story)

TRIO Recognizes Mayo Liver Program 10th Anniversary
   TRIO Jacksonville helped celebrate.....
Donate Life Rose Bowl Parade Float
   January 2008 float to promote organ donation...
TRIO Carepages now available
   Reach out to share ...
New Communications Section
   Your opinion counts!  Reach out to help others... 
Transplant Movie Nights
   TRIO Philadelphia co-sponsors transplant movies..
Transplant Resource Links
   Over 700 links...
TRIO Bulletin Board
   Log in and post your questions, ideas and topics. Communicate with other transplant recipients, donors and families.  Check out our new topics and add your own suggestions.  Help build this community with your own postings to help others.  Add your own questions and thoughts.