OneLegacy Observes Donate Life Month With First Virtual Run/Walk, City Proclamations, Flag-Raising Ceremonies, Meals of Gratitude to First Responders

A Sequence of Digital Actions, Hospital Drop Offs and the First Digital Donate Life Run/Stroll Are Taking Place in April, Whereas Observing the Authorities’s Keep-at-Dwelling Suggestions

With the objective of preserving the communities it serves secure and wholesome throughout these unsure instances, OneLegacy is observing Donate Life Month in April with a collection of digital occasions to focus on the impression of organ, eye and tissue donation in saving and therapeutic lives. These occasions are being hosted via the facility of social media and on-line instruments accessible to native communities.

OneLegacy is becoming a member of dozens of organizations, hospitals, cities and transplant facilities throughout the nation on this digital effort to share the significance of donation within the U.S. whereas observing social distancing and inspiring native communities to interact by way of social media, telephone calls and movies from their houses.

Moreover, OneLegacy shall be internet hosting its first Digital Donate Life Run/Stroll occasion, which is able to happen on Fb, YouTube and Instagram on Saturday, April 25.

Via these actions, OneLegacy expects to succeed in native hospitals, metropolis councils and over 20 million individuals in Southern California by way of social media and digital connection initiatives.

“We determined that going digital this 12 months is the easiest way to proceed our partnership with native hospitals, transplant facilities, neighborhood companions and metropolis officers and to encourage our native communities to register as donors whereas staying secure at residence,” stated Tom Mone, CEO of OneLegacy. “We’re grateful to our communities who’re becoming a member of us on Fb, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube to advertise and have a good time Donate Life Month.”

This 12 months’s Donate Life Month’s actions embody:

1. Digital Donate Life Run/Stroll: Celebrating its 18^th 12 months, the Donate Life Run/Stroll goes digital on Saturday, April 25, with hundreds of members becoming a member of in from their houses via numerous social media channels. Contributors can register till April 25 by visiting donateliferunwalk.org.
2. Meals of Gratitude: OneLegacy is making particular visits to native hospitals to drop off “Meals of Gratitude” as a technique to acknowledge the labor of medical professionals in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. In partnership with native eating places, together with Lee’s Sandwiches and Elevating Cain’s, OneLegacy employees is delivering breakfast and lunch to hospital companions in addition to Donate Life branded objects, together with hand sanitizers.
3. Metropolis Proclamations: Dozens of metropolis and county proclamations are being issued to declare April as Donate Life Month, due to the assistance of over 260 OneLegacy Ambassadors and Embajadores who’ve reached out to their native elected officers to share their private tales of donation and to ask the issuance of such proclamations.
4. Flags Throughout America: In observance of Donate Life Month, OneLegacy is working with native organizations to fly the Donate Life flag in the course of the month of April.
5. Flags Throughout America: OneLegacy has additionally labored with native organizations to fly the Donate Life flag in the course of the month of April, in observance of Donate Life Month.

Devoted to saving and therapeutic lives via organ, eye and tissue donation, OneLegacy is the biggest organ, eye and tissue restoration group on the earth, with greater than 200 hospitals, 10 transplant facilities and a various inhabitants of over 22 million in Southern California

For extra data, go to OneLegacy.org, like us on Facebook, or comply with us on Twitter and Instagram.

Donate Life Run/Stroll data, registration and updates can be found at DonateLifeRunWalk.org and thru our social media channels: Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

To register to turn out to be an organ, eye, or tissue donor, go to donateLIFEcalifornia.org/OneLegacy or doneVIDAcalifornia.org/OneLegacy.

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Tania Llavaneras
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