ACTION IDEAS

Workplace Partnership for Life

ACTIONS YOU CAN TAKE TODAY:

• Contact Brenda Owen at Golden State Donor Services (GSDS) at
  916.567.1600 or e-mail BOwen@dcids.org for free materials.

 
• Send electronic, voice, or paper message - promoting donation from you to each employee. (LINK TO SAMPLE)

 
• Run a PSA or include an electronic banner on your in-house e-mail system (make your own or contact GSDS at 916.567.1600, e-mail BOwen@dcids.org for assistance).
  * Ask each staff member to make a personal decision about donation, sign a donor card, and tell their family of their wishes.
  * Remind staff about the more than 93,000 people waiting for a life-saving transplant.

 
• Include articles on donation in your newsletter. Feature stories about employees who are recipients, donors, donor family members or in need of a transplant or blood transfusion. (GSDS can assist and supply copy).

 
• Add a pro-donation message to each employee's pay stub (sample)-
  * It's About Giving Life. Talk to Your Family About Organ Donation Today.

 
• Sponsor a "brown bag" presentation on donation (free trained speakers who are organ donor recipients and donor family members are available by contacting GSDS at 916.567.1600).

 
• Implement a Living Donor Leave Policy for employees who donate marrow or an organ.

 
• Sponsor a blood drive, marrow drive, or organ/tissue online sign up event. Consider creating competition among departments of field offices.

 
• Post information on your bulletin board or in your newsletter about local community blood drives and donation efforts.

Talk to your family about organ donation. It's about giving life.

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