What is Donate Life Indiana?

Donate Life Indiana is the state-authorized nonprofit organization responsible for managing the Indiana organ donor registry. Our mission is to save lives by creating opportunities for all Indiana citizens to register to become organ and tissue donors while striving to raise awareness about organ and tissue donation and transplantation through public education.

Donate Life Indiana

Learn about how we achieve our mission through awareness, advocacy and education.

View our latest annual report to see how we made an impact and propelled donation forward.

Learn about how we develop strategic partnerships that allow us to reach more Hoosiers and save more lives.

The Donate Life Indiana story

Coalition of Donation founded.

1992

Indiana Donor Alliance established.

1999

Donate Life America (DLA) logo and brand created.

2000

Donate Life America institutes National Donate Life Month.

2003

Registry begins receiving registered donors from the Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV).

2008

Indiana Donor Alliance becomes Donate Life Indiana and launches new website.

2017

Donate Life Indiana hits a milestone of more than $2 million in BMV transaction donations since the start of the partnership.

2018

Donate Life Indiana launches virtual learning amid COVID-19 pandemic and reaches a record number of Hoosier youth.

2020

Registry begins receiving registered donors from the Department of Natural Resources (DNR).

2021

Senate Enrolled Act 260 signed into law, requiring the state’s Professional Licensing Agency to ask the donation question. Implementation scheduled for 2024.

2022