Donation resources

Nearly 3,000 people are waiting for transplants in North Carolina. According to Donate Life North Carolina, you can save eight lives through organ donation and enhance more than 50 lives through tissue donation.

Sign up to be an organ donor through the state Division of Motor Vehicles or at DonateLifeNC.org.

Other organizations can also answer questions about organ donation. Among them:

• American Association of Tissue Banks, www.aatb.org.
• American Red Cross, www.redcross.org.
• The Carolinas Center for Hospice & End of Life Care, www.carolinasendoflifecare.org.
• Carolina Donor Services, www.carolinadonorservices.org. Organ procurement organization covering eastern, central and northwestern North Carolina.
• Donate Life America, www.donatelife.net.
• LifeShare of the Carolinas, www.lifesharecarolinas.org. Organ procurement organization and eye bank covering southwestern North Carolina.
• National Kidney Foundation of North Carolina, www.nkfnc.org.
• N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles, www.ncdot.org/dmv. Maintains the state's donor registry.