ORGANIZE

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ORGANIZE
Founder Jenna Arnold, Greg Segal
Bryan Sivan, Reggie Love, Dara Kass
Website www.organize.org

ORGANIZE is a US-based non-profit focused on bringing reform to the organ donation system. ORGANIZE was co-founded by Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal in late 2013 after Segal's father, Rick Segal, was forced to wait five years to undergo a heart transplant. [1] In 2015, ORGANIZE received an Innovator in Residence [2] position in the Office of the US Secretary of Health and Human Services and was a featured presenter the 2016 White House Organ Donation Summit.

Awards and recognition

ORGANIZE has been profiled in the New York Times, [3] Washington Post, [4] Forbes, [5] Slate, [6] and Fast Company. [7] ORGANIZE received the $1MM First Prize in the Verizon Powerful Answers Award, [8] the Inaugural Stanford MedX Health Care Design Award, [9] a Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Award, and the Classy Award as one of the top 10 social change organizations in the world. [10] The New York Times called ORGANIZE one of 2016's "Biggest Ideas in Social Change", [11] and ORGANIZE's co-founders have been honored in Inc Magazine's "35 Under 35 List" [12] and Oprah's list of 100 Super Soul Influencers. [13]

At the 2016 White House Organ Donation Summit, ORGANIZE announced partnerships to promote organ donation with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Funny or Die, and the White House Social and Behavioral Sciences Team, among others. [14]

On August 14, 2015, ORGANIZE was honored during the pre-game ceremony at Fenway Park for a baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and the Seattle Mariners, and co-founder Greg Segal's father, a heart transplant recipient, threw out the game's Ceremonial First Pitch. [15]

On May 14, 2017, ORGANIZE's living donor registry, www.giveandlive.us, was the featured call to action on the HBO series Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. [16]

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Organ transplantation</span> Medical procedure in which an organ is removed from one body and placed in the body of a recipient

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">United Network for Organ Sharing</span>

The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) is a non-profit scientific and educational organization that administers the only Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) in the United States, established by the U.S. Congress in 1984 by Gene A. Pierce, founder of United Network for Organ Sharing. Located in Richmond, Virginia, the organization's headquarters are situated near the intersection of Interstate 95 and Interstate 64 in the Virginia BioTechnology Research Park.

NHS Blood and Transplant is an executive non-departmental public body of the United Kingdom's Department of Health and Social Care. It was established on 1 October 2005 to take over the responsibilities of two separate NHS agencies: UK Transplant, founded by Dr. Geoffrey Tovey in 1972, and the National Blood Service. Its remit is to provide a reliable, efficient supply of blood, organs and associated services to the NHS. Since NHSBT was established, the organisation has maintained or improved the quality of the services delivered to patients, stabilised the rising cost of blood, and centralised a number of corporate services.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Organ transplantation in China</span>

Organ transplantation in China has taken place since the 1960s, and is one of the largest organ transplant programmes in the world, peaking at over 13,000 liver and kidney transplants a year in 2004.

Organ procurement is a surgical procedure that removes organs or tissues for reuse, typically for organ transplantation.

Organ trade is the trading of human organs, tissues, or other body products, usually for transplantation. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), organ trade is a commercial transplantation where there is a profit, or transplantations that occur outside of national medical systems. There is a global need or demand for healthy body parts for transplantation, which exceeds the numbers available.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">National Organization for Organ and Tissues Donation and Transplantation (Lebanon)</span> Lebanese organ donation and transplant organization

The National Organization for Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplant (NOD-Lb) is a Lebanese non-profit organization affiliated to the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health. NOD-Lb was created by a joint venture between the Ministry of Public Health and the Lebanese Order of Physicians in Beirut.

The Ontario Online Donor Registry is a website where Ontario residents, age 16 and older, can register their consent to be an organ and tissue donor. This registry was created to help ease questions and ambiguities with organ donor wishes. The virtual registry also increases Ontario donations with increased accessibility. The registration process can be done through beadonor.ca. Online donor registries have also become popular in the United States, where one can register through Donate Life America; Malaysia, registering through their National Transplant Registry; and Saudi Arabia, registering through the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation.

Richard D. Segal is an American investor and philanthropist. Segal is chairman and chief executive officer of the Seavest Investment Group, a private investment firm with holdings in both venture capital and managed real estate. He also serves as chairman and co-founder of Rethink Capital Partners, a venture capital firm that invests in technological solutions providing social impact to local and global communities.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Healthcare in Chennai</span> Healthcare in Chennai, India

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Human Transplantation (Wales) Act 2013</span> United Kingdom legislation

The Human Transplantation (Wales) Act 2013 is an act of the National Assembly for Wales, passed in July 2013. It permits an opt-out system of organ donation, known as presumed consent, or deemed consent. The act allows hospitals to presume that people aged 18 or over, who have been resident in Wales for over 12 months, want to donate their organs at their death, unless they have objected specifically. The act varies the Law of England and Wales in Wales, which relied on an opt-in system; whereby only those who have signed the NHS organ donation register, or whose families agreed, were considered to have consented to be organ donors.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">MOHAN Foundation</span>

MOHAN Foundation is a not-for-profit, registered non-government charity organisation in India that works in the field of deceased organ donation and transplantation. MOHAN is an acronym for Multi Organ Harvesting Aid Network. It has offices in Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Delhi, Mumbai, Chandigarh, Nagpur, Jaipur and information centers at Kerala and Imphal.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Greg Segal</span> American entrepreneur (born 1984)

Gregory Lyons Segal is an American entrepreneur.

Allegations of forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners and other political prisoners in China have raised concern within the international community. According to a report by former lawmaker David Kilgour, human rights lawyer David Matas and journalist Ethan Gutmann of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, political prisoners, mainly Falun Gong practitioners, are being executed "on demand" in order to provide organs for transplant to recipients. Reports have said that organ harvesting has been used to advance the Chinese Communist Party's persecution of Falun Gong and because of the financial incentives available to the institutions and individuals involved in the trade. A report by The Washington Post has disputed some of the allegations, saying that China does not import sufficient quantities of immunosuppressant drugs, used by transplant recipients, to carry out such quantities of organ harvesting.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dorry Segev</span> American surgeon

Dorry L. Segev is the Marjory K. and Thomas Pozefsky Professor of Surgery at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, professor of epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and associate vice chair of the Department of Surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He has made significant contributions to the field of transplantation, including developing a mathematical model to facilitate a nationwide kidney paired donation program, both in the US and Canada. He is also known for his role in getting the HIV Organ Policy Equity Act signed into law.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jenna Arnold</span> American businesswoman

Jenna Arnold is an American activist, entrepreneur and author of Raising Our Hands (2020). She is known as the co-founder of ORGANIZE, for her work at the United Nations and MTV, and was a National Organizer for the 2017 Women's March on Washington. Oprah has called Arnold one of the "100 Awakened Leaders who are using their voice and talent to elevate humanity". She is a frequent contributor on the subjects of American identity, politics and foreign policy on FOX, CNN, and MSNBC.

The Trillium Gift of Life Network was an agency of the Government of Ontario responsible for the province's organ donation strategy, promotion, and supply. Ronnie Gavsie was the President & CEO. The agency maintained the popular BeADonor.ca website. It was subsequently subsumed under Ontario Health in 2019.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Classy (company)</span>

Classy is a software company and online fundraising platform designed for nonprofit organizations. Headquartered in San Diego, California, Classy was founded by CEO Scot Chisholm, Pat Walsh, and Marshall Peden in 2006, originally to host fundraising events that benefit charities. The firm transitioned to a software and services company in 2010. Its software as a service products launched in 2011 and focus on peer-to-peer fundraising, crowdfunding, events, supporter management and marketing automation. In September 2016, Classy closed $30 million in Series C funding from JMI Equity, Peter Thiel's Mithril Capital, Salesforce Ventures, and Bullpen Capital. In April 2021, it raised $118 million in series D funding, making Classy a Public Benefit Corporation.

Organ transplantation in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu is regulated by India's Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994 and is facilitated by the Transplant Authority of Tamil Nadu (TRANSTAN) of the Government of Tamil Nadu and several NGOs. Tamil Nadu ranks first in India in deceased organ donation rate at 1.8 per million population, which is seven times higher than the national average.

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