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Our History
Donate Life Florida is an alliance of organ, tissue and eye donor programs in Florida as well as other individuals and organizations that hold a common interest in life-saving and life-enhancing donation and transplantation. DLF is a non-profit organization.
Donate Life Florida is a member of the national Coalition on Donation in Richmond, Virginia. The Coalition on Donation was founded in 1992 by the transplant community to educate the public about organ and tissue donation and transplantation, correct misconceptions about donation, and create a greater willingness to donate. It is a not-for-profit alliance of national organizations and local coalitions like Donate Life Florida. The Coalition’s mission is to inspire all people to Donate Life through organ and tissue donation.
Donate Life Florida was founded in 1997 through a consensus of all Florida-based donor programs in existence at that time. The primary reason for forming a coalition was to create an entity that could tackle projects that were too big for any one program to take on individually, including implementing national campaigns being offered by the Coalition on Donation.
Donate Life Florida has successfully educated Floridians through a variety of outreach efforts, including Get Carded, a college based campaign; Workplace Partnership For Life, an employer driven program; billboard and movie theatre advertisements and annual visits to the state capitol to educate our legislators about the importance of becoming a donor.
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