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Dear Friend:
I am writing to invite you to join the Workplace Partnership
for Life, a part of our new national Gift of Life Donation
Initiative. This is truly a win-win campaign in which everyone
can play a significant role in recruiting potential organ, tissue,
marrow, and blood donors. Think of it. If your organs could vote,
wouldn't they choose to empower other human beings to continue
to live?
As a result of advances in medical research and transplantation technology, up to 50 lives can be saved or enhanced by just one organ and tissue donor. That's remarkable! However, the need for donated organs is urgent. More than 80,000 of our fellow Americans are waiting for organs right now. And if we don't do something about it, that list will just continue to grow.
Through the Workplace Partnership for Life, we can do something
about it. We can build public awareness of the need. We can elect
to become donors. We can discuss our wishes with our families,
friends, and co-workers. We can encourage others to sign
an organ and tissue donor card and indicate their intent on a
driver's license. We can make it clear that if something
happens to us, we have already voted. That vote is yes! We have
elected to help someone else live. A clear choice to donate the
gift of life.
The workplace is a great environment in which to create awareness
of the need for donation. With employers and employees working
together, we can literally save thousands of lives. We invite
major corporations and unions as well as smaller businesses, associations,
government agencies, schools and volunteer organizations to join
the campaign. Everyone can contribute to creating a donation friendly
workplace.
Please join us. A sign-up form is enclosed. Just complete and
return it. Also enclosed are some "Ideas for Action" which describe
possible ways you can educate your workforce about donation. Using
these ideas or your own, please let us know how your organization
will will promote donation. To share ideas about what others are
doing, and to stay in touch and up to date, we will create a new
section for the Workplace Partnership for Life at the Initiative's
dedicated web site at www.organdonor.gov.
Thank you so very much for your participation. Working together
we really can make a difference. We can all be winners in this
campaign.
Sincerely,
Tommy G. Thompson
Work
Place Ideas and Sign-up Form
The list of Workplace Partners.
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