nPOD Partner Organizations

nPOD's success is dependent on its many partner organizations. These organizations assist nPOD with organ recovery and delivery and ensure that research consent is obtained from donor families. Our partner organizations include:

 

 

 

 

Donor Alliance is one of 58 not-for-profit organ recovery organizations federally designated by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services to facilitate the donation and recovery of organs for people needing transplants. Additionally, Donor Alliance is a recognized leader in facilitating the donation and recovery of transplantable tissues in Colorado and most of Wyoming.

 

 

Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network serves as the federally designated not-for-profit agency that coordinates organ and tissue donation and supports families of donors in the northern three-quarters of Illinois and northwest Indiana.

 

 

Affiliated with Harvard Medical School, Joslin Diabetes Center is the world's largest diabetes research center, diabetes clinic and provider of diabetes education.

 

 

Lifesharing is committed to the life-saving and life-enhancing efforts of transplantation. We strive to be the leader in organ and tissue donation through education, collaboration, and the provision of quality service.

 

 

Lifequest is an Organ Procurement Organization located in Gainesville and part of the University of Florida. Lifequest is dedicated to the recovery of organs for transplantation and to educating the community on the importance of organ donation.

 

 

NDRI (the National Disease Research Interchange) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, established in 1980 by Lee Ducat, also the founder of JDRF (the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation), to provide scientists access to human cells, tissues and organs which would have been thrown away and are now saved for critical research projects.