Donate Eight is a non-profit organization that was founded in 2013 by members of the New York City Real Estate, Building Management and Building Service community in response to the immediate need to increase organ donation awareness and registration on the NYS registry.
We are the founding and primary fundraising organization for LiveOnNY Foundation – the philanthropic arm of LiveOnNY.
LiveOnNY is among the largest of the nation’s 56 non-profit, federally designated organ procurement organizations. The LiveOnNY team is a dedicated group of highly trained professionals who work tirelessly 365 days a year to help save the lives of those in need of a transplant. Partnering with 11 transplant centers and 100 hospitals, they coordinate organ, eye and tissue donations for transplant. They are there to support and comfort donors and their loved ones.
Additionally, they educate the public and healthcare professionals about the gift of life and promote the importance of signing up on the Donate Life Registry. LiveOnNY serves a culturally and ethnically diverse community of 13 million people in the NY Metropolitan area. They have helped save approximately 30,000 lives since the medical miracle of organ donation and transplantation began and have also improved the quality of life for hundreds of thousands more through eye and tissue donation.
LiveOnNY Foundation supports this mission by using contributions to help increase the number of lives saved through public education and awareness campaigns, special projects to support both donor and recipient families through their transplant journey.
Donate Eight currently contributes all funds raised at our annual Gala to LiveOnNY Foundation to foster and support their amazing work.