Educating and inspiring throughout Indiana
For Donate Life Indiana, 2022 was a year of growth and excitement. We pursued new avenues for Hoosiers to say “yes” to donation, which we know is key to increasing the number of registered donors. Education also remained a top priority as we sought to teach more Hoosiers the importance of becoming organ donors.
On behalf of Donate Life Indiana, we are proud to share our accomplishments in 2022 and look forward to continued donation and transplantation education in 2023.
2024 Highlights
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Indiana Donor Registry
In 2024, Donate Life Indiana continued to enhance the Indiana donor registry. This included additional reporting functionality and improved search capabilities.
The Indiana Donor Registry houses all donation decisions made in the state of Indiana, whereas the National Donor Registry houses decisions made via Donate Life America.
In 2024, Donate Life Indiana continued to enhance the Indiana donor registry. This included additional reporting functionality and improved search capabilities.
Donor Registration Partners
In 2024, Donate Life Indiana continued to enhance the Indiana donor registry. This included additional reporting functionality and improved search capabilities. Our partners not only help us in raising awareness of organ, tissue and eye donation, they also help us raise the number of registrations each year. We thank these partners for continuing to save lives by helping Hoosiers sign up to be organ, tissue and eye donors every day.
New Commercials in 2024
In partnership with Indiana Donor Network
Youth Education Program
Donate Life Indiana’s youth education program focuses on reaching Hoosiers who are making timely donation decisions. The team works tirelessly to educate students before they go to the BMV to get an ID, learner’s permit or driver’s license and are asked the important question, “Do you want to be an organ donor?” Learn more about our youth education program here.
In 2024 Donate Life Indiana completed 868 classroom presentations and educated 28,121 students as a result of our youth education program in schools alone. That’s nearly a 20% increase in students educated in the classroom setting compared to 2023.
In 2024, Donate Life Indiana continued its incentivized back to school booking campaign where we offered educators a free Donate Life Indiana lunch tote for booking a presentation within the deadline. We also offered a referral incentive for our current educator partners. As a result, we saw an increase of almost 10% in the number of educators participate in the incentive campaign. In addition, we conducted targeted outreach to school systems not currently a part of the program in an effort to increase engagement.
Donate Life Indiana continued to pursue partnerships with youth-focused organizations offering the opportunity for engagement outside of the classroom.
We developed a relationship with the Indianapolis Indians and were able to hold activations at their annual Baseball in Education games, which welcome local students to the ballpark during the school day. We also reached participating teachers by including education on donation and our outreach program in the literature they receive from the Indians. Additionally, we partnered with the Crossroads of America Council to provide donation education all summer at Camp Ransburg as part of the Scouts’ first aid patch program. Both opportunities allowed Donate Life Indiana to engage in many meaningful conversations about donation with youth from across the state of Indiana.
Furthermore, 2024 saw the addition of nine new Student Organ Donation Advocates chapters. These high school and college groups help raise awareness and increase donor registrations by signing up new organ and tissue donors outside of the classroom. We now have 19 SODA chapters in Indiana, making us the state with the highest number of chapters. In 2024, our SODA chapters signed up 309 new donors and helped educate another 20,531 people about donation.
National Donate Life Month and Team Indiana
Every April, we celebrate National Donate Life Month in multiple ways. This year, we ran a month-long social media campaign, distributed Donate Life standard-size and garden-size flags to businesses across the state for display during the month, provided content and displays to community partners and more.
In July, Donate Life Indiana accompanied Team Indiana to the Transplant Games of America in Birmingham, Alabama. Twenty-four Team Indiana members competed in 18 sporting events including bowling, track and field, pickleball, table tennis, basketball, volleyball and more. In total, our athletes brought home fifty-three medals.
Team Indiana
Donate Life Indiana worked to prepare Team Indiana for the next Transplant Games of America, which will take place in July 2024. This included a team manager site visit to Birmingham and hosting a team outing to help form new friendships and identify partnerships for the various competitions. Finally, a new team captain program was launched to assist with the initial onboarding process. Veteran team members connect with prospective team members and serve as a resource to answer questions about joining Team Indiana and attending the Games.
2024 Finances
Monetary donations in support of Donate Life Indiana help fund our outreach and education efforts around the need for organ, tissue and eye donors. All figures are calculated using accrual-based accounting.
License Plate Revenue
Donate Life Indiana receives $25 for each specialty license plate sold by the BMV.
In 2021, Donate Life Indiana received approval to continue offering the specialty license plate through 2031.
BMV Donation Revnue
During transactions at the BMV (online or in-person), individuals are asked if they would like to donate $1 or more to support Donate Life Indiana.
Miscellaneous Donation Revenue
This includes Facebook fundraisers, memorial donations, the online Donate Life Indiana store and public donations.
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