Wishing YOU a wonderful Holiday Season!
LOPA aims to motivate individuals to register as organ and tissue donors, and collectively, we express our gratitude to those who have saved lives through the selfless act of organ and tissue donation.
Our partners play a pivotal role throughout the year in Making Life Happen through the gift of organ and tissue donation.
To spread the lifesaving spirit of donation widely during the Holiday Season, we invite you to utilize the downloadable materials provided below. For details on how to use the provided templates, please view this instruction guide for utilizing the customizable materials once they are downloaded.
LOPA Holiday Materials - November & December 2026:
Customizable Assets for Events
Generic NDLM Assets
Customizable Assets for Events - with Precision Ocular Network (Formerly Southern Eye Bank) Cobranded Assets
You are Our Partner in Making Life Happen
You may not realize it, but as a member of your hospital’s marketing team, you play an important role in educating the public about organ, tissue and eye donation.
By promoting donation in your hospital and to the communities you serve, you help bring hope and healing to the thousands of Louisianians waiting for life saving organ and tissue transplants.
LOPA appreciates your partnership in achieving our core purpose of Making Life Happen. This hospital marketing tool kit has been developed to assist your teams in advocacy and education efforts.
We’ve included information on LOPA, general donation facts, and calendar observances to help you craft meaningful stories and campaigns that are easily understandable for your audiences. We can also provide social media graphics and web banners for your digital marketing efforts; write blogs and/or articles and provide transplant recipients, donor families and those waiting for awareness events.
Questions? Let us know! Email us anytime at marketing@lopa.org
UNDERSTANDING DONATION
Donation can save and enhance lives in a variety of ways. Most notable are organs that are transplanted into very sick people--giving them a second chance at life. Organs that can be donated are: heart, lungs, liver, pancreas, kidneys, and small intestines.
Yet, people suffering with more common ailments such as sports injuries, eye diseases such as glaucoma, and clogged veins can be treated with donated tissues. Burn victims and those with severe wounds also benefit from tissue donation.
Stats, Facts & Language
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Organs recovered by LOPA: heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, pancreas, small intestine
• One organ donor can potentially save the lives of up to 8 people.
• Tissues recovered by LOPA: bone, skin, tendons/ligaments, heart valves, saphenous vein.
• One tissue donor can help heal the lives of 75 people.
• There are three eye banks in Louisiana. They are responsible for recovering corneas for transplant.
• There are over 100,000 Americans currently waiting on a life saving organ transplant.
• There are approximately 2,000 people waiting in Louisiana on the national waiting list.
• Only a small percentage of all individuals will have the potential to donate organs upon their death.
• In order to become an organ donor, an individual must have a traumatic brain injury, be supported by a ventilator and die in a hospital.
• Registering to be a donor will not affect any medical treatment you may need.
• All major religions support organ and tissue donation.
• There is no additional cost to your family.
• Donation still allows for an open casket and other traditional funeral arrangements.
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“RECOVERY” of organs not “harvesting” of organs
“RECOVER” organs not “harvest” organs
“DETERMINE BRAIN DEATH” not “declare brain death”
“MECHANICAL or VENTILATOR” support not “life” support
“DONATED ORGANS AND TISSUES” not “body parts”
“DECEASED DONOR” not “cadaver” (when used in a donation context)
