ECHO a Life-Saving Message!

Hello! Hola! Xin Chào! 您好!

For the next two weeks, I’ll be participating in Donate Life ECHO! I’m calling on all my friends to help me spread the word!

ECHO stands for Every Community Has Opportunity and was created to encourage people from all walks of life to share their wishes to become organ and tissue donors! The concept of the ECHO is so cool – one person shares their life-saving decision, followed by another and another! Can you hear it?!

What makes ECHO so important is the crucial role multicultural communities play in donation. In fact, out of the nearly 124,000 people waiting for an organ transplant, approximately 77,633 are multicultural patients! WOW!

Here’s how you can help NJ Sharing Network recognize Donate Life ECHO:

·         Register to be an organ and tissue donor here.

·         Have the conversation about donation with your family.

·         Fill out an ECHO speech bubble to show your support – download here:

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• Spanish

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·         Participate in the ECHO photo campaign on our Facebook page.

·         Host a Lily’s Laces reading at your local library or summer camp. Please contact Veronica Horvath at 908-516-5637 for more information.

 

Thank you so much for your support! I can’t wait to see all of your fun photos! Like mine?

 

XOXO,

Ms. Pumps

 

P.S. – National Minority Donor Awareness Week is coming up, August 1-7!

National Minority Donor Awareness Week was created to increase awareness of the need for organ and tissue donors, especially among minority communities. During this special time, we honor minorities who gave the Gift of Life, and encourages others to have the conversation with their families! Can’t wait to celebrate this with everyone, too!

 

 

YOU DID IT!

Hi Friends!

YOU DID IT! I am very happy to announce that the 5K Celebration of Life has officially raised $1 Million! Thank you to all who contributed to make this goal possible. Your continuous generosity never ceases to amaze me!

With these funds, the NJ Sharing Network Foundation will continue to provide support to numerous projects and programs. Some of these areas include laboratory research, donor family support, education for our hospital partners and community outreach to spread our life-saving message.

The amount of funds raised is not the only milestone we reached at the 5^th Annual 5K Celebration of Life event. With two locations, and a combined total of over 12,000 attendees, we had our highest level of participation yet. We also had a record-breaking total of over 450 volunteers to help us make both events absolutely perfect! Be sure to check out all the awesome photos on our Facebook page!

Psst - I even heard talk of adding a third location next year – how exciting would that be?!

With your hard work and dedication, YOU make all of these things possible. We’re so lucky to have such AMAZING people as our advocates. Congratulations to our entire NJ Sharing Network family for reaching this achievement.

XOXO,

Ms. Pumps

PS: Just because the 5K is over doesn’t mean I’ll be slowing down anytime soon! With two cycling events and our Annual Golf Classic coming up, I have a lot of training to do! So strap on that helmet and start practicing your back-swing - I hope you can join me!