Donate Life America manages and promotes the national brand for donation, Donate Life, and assists Donate Life State Teams and national partners in facilitating high-performing donor registries developing and executing effective multi-media donor education programs and motivating the American public to register now as organ, eye and tissue donors.St. Register today to become an organ, eye or tissue donor by visiting .ĭonate Life America is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit alliance of national organizations and state teams across the United States committed to increasing organ, eye and tissue donation. As the world’s most visible campaign to inspire organ, eye and tissue donation, the Donate Life Rose Parade® float inspires viewers to help the over 1 million people in need of organ, eye or tissue transplants each year.

The Donate Life Rose Parade float is produced by OneLegacy, designed by Charles Meier, built by Fiesta Parade Floats and made possible thanks to 43 sponsors. Shelby Johnson, a 17 year old high school student from Tecumseh, OKīios to all 35 floragraph honorees are available here:.Gabriela Hernandez, a 24 year old young woman from Huntington Beach, CA.Nicholas Paquette, a 23 year old martial arts teacher and medical assistant from Boynton Beach, FL, whose liver recipient, Rene Sorrentino, was also honored as a rider on the float.The 2022 Donate Life float floragraph honorees included: These portraits were made out of organic materials like rice, farina, coffee, flax seeds and cinnamon. These donors gave the ultimate gift of life to save and heal others through the power of organ, eye and tissue donation. Vicky West Vann, a 61 year old liver recipient from Laughlin, NVīios to the 2022 Donate Life float riders are available here: ģ5 deceased donors’ images were memorialized with floral portraits or floragraphs on the 2022 Donate Life float.Tony Young, a 47 year old heart and kidney recipient from Parker, CO.Venerable Kumara, a 29 year old living kidney donor from Fort Pierce, FL.Kim McMahon, a 63 year old tissue recipient from Pensacola, FL.Karen Hoyt, a 64 year old liver recipient from Sand Springs, OK.Jennifer Quattrocchi, a liver and kidney recipient from Roseville, CA.Hilda Martinez, a 47 year old kidney recipient from Richmond, CA.Dan Burke, a 62 year old lung recipient from Keyport, NJ.Chris Brown, a 36 year old tissue recipient from Jessup, GA.Charles “Chuck” Pruitt, a 68 year old liver recipient from Bakersfield, CA.Branden Amian Dever, a 16 year old kidney recipient from San Jose, CA.Alyza Marlin, a 52 year old pulmonary valve recipient from New York, NY.She is currently completing a degree in psychology at USC and on the pre-med track to become a doctor. whose donor, Nicholas Paquette, was also honored with a floragraph on the float and Selah Kitchiner, a 20-year-old from California who received a liver at the age of 13, and whose transplant inspired her to pursue a career in medicine. The 2022 Donate Life float’s 15 riders included: Gerald Freeny, a 61 year old kidney and liver recipient, cancer survivor and past president of the 2019 Tournament of Roses Rene Sorrentino, a 70 year old liver recipient from Fullerton, Calif. Susan Van Campen from Grand Terrace, Calif., 63 year-old living donor, tissue recipient, and donor family member, who is also the president of Transplant Games’ Team SoCal.īios to all four 2022 Donate Life float walkers are available here:.Lynda Trachtman from Fullerton, Calif., a 71 year-old liver recipient, who was the first HIV+ patient to receive a living kidney donation from her niece, and.Elise Lathrop, a 22-year-old living kidney donor from New Orleans, LA.Ava was also nominated in 2021 as one of CNN’s Heroes. The 2022 Donate Life float walkers included Ava Kaufman, a 71-year-old heart recipient from Los Angeles who founded Ava’s Heart to help donor families with funeral costs, and transplant recipients with pre and post-surgery housing. 35 floragraphs or floral portraits representing organ, eye and tissue donors who gave the gift of life to othersįour honorees, whose lives were connected to organ donation, walked alongside the 2022 Donate Life float.15 riders who are organ and tissue recipients, as well as living donors.

4 walkers, including living donors, as well as organ and tissue recipients.LOS ANGELES-( BUSINESS WIRE)-54 honorees representing 23 states participated in the 2022 Donate Life Rose Parade® float, “Courage to Hope.” With ages ranging from 16 to 71 years old for riders and walkers, and from 9 days old, to 55 years old for floragraph honorees, these participants and their families travelled to Pasadena to be part of America’s Donate Life celebration on New Year’s day’s traditional Rose Parade®.

Donate life rose parade float 2022