Celebrating the Gift of Life! 2007 Multicultural Events

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Community News & Notes 2007
Washington Regional Transplant Consortium
A Donate Life Organization
Observing 20 years of saving lives!
Celebrating the Gift of Life!
DonateLifeDC
Mobile Kiosk
Unveiling Ceremony
December 20, 2007
2007 Multicultural Events
www.BeADonor.org
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Quarter 1: January-April 2007
James Selby, a
heart and kidney
recipient, educated High Point
High School
health class students about organ
and tissue donation in Silver
Spring, MD.
WRTC volunteers provided information, answered
questions and registered potential organ and tissue
donors at the NBC 4 Health and Fitness Expo at
Events
• ADAMS Center, Eid Al-Adha Celebration-Loudoun
County, VA
• Glenmont & White Oak MVA-Montgomery, MD
• Howard University National Donor Day-WDC
• Get Game Give Life at Verizon Center-WDC
• Temple Sinai Blood and Donor Drive-WDC
• Bowie Baysox Opening Night-Bowie, MD
● Women’s Healthy Heart Day-WDC
Transplant
recipients honored at center
court during
halftime of the
“Get Game Give
Life” Georgetown basketball
game at DC’s
Verizon Center.
Social Organization and local Church Presentations
• Civitan Club-Prince George’s, MD
• Mount Vernon Rotary Club-Montgomery, MD
• Lewinsville Presbyterian Church-Fairfax, VA
• Embassy of Guatemala-Washington, DC
• Victory Towers Senior Residence-Montgomery, MD
• Church of the Good Shepard United Methodist-Fairfax, VA
• Ravensworth Baptist Church-Fairfax, VA
• George Mason Univerisity PR Class-Fairfax, VA
Middle/High School-Higher Education Presentations
• Walter Johnson HS-Montgomery County, MD
• Georgetown Prep High School-WDC
• GWU Upward Bound Program-WDC
• Walker Mill Middle School-Prince George’s, MD
• Colonial Forge High School-Stafford, VA
• GMU Death and Dying Class-Fairfax, VA
Health Fairs
• Embassy of Ecuador-WDC
• Washington Center for the Aging Services-WDC
• George Mason University Health Fair-Fairfax, VA
• Bruce Monroe Elementary School-WDC
During this quarter the community education team and 50
volunteers worked diligently to increase awareness for
organ and tissue donation. A total of 110 people signed up
to be organ donors, and we reached an audience of
approximately 50,000.
Proclamations
WRTC received proclamation designating April as Donate
Life Month from Fairfax County, Washington, DC, Fauquier County, Loudoun County, Prince George’s County,
City of Alexandria, Prince William County, Stafford
County, Montgomery County, City of Manassas and Arlington County.
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Volunteers enjoyed
a night in the skybox at the Bowie
Baysox baseball
game. George
Franklin, a kidney
recipient of 32
years threw out the
first pitch.
Presentations: DC - Maryland - Virginia
Events: DC - Maryland - Virginia
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• Article in Washington Post about WRTC volunteer and
living kidney donor, Sahra Rivera-Torres.
• Article in Prince George’s Gazette about organ donation quoting Cindy Speas, Dir. of Community Affairs.
• Article in Afro-American about Saturn Donor Day at
Howard University quoting Rhonda Gaines, Community Education Specialist.
• Article in Hispanic newspaper El Pregonero about Dr.
Carlos Fernandez, Medical Director.
• Donate Life Month information in DCHA and Inova
Health Source newsletters
• Radio interviews on WPGC-FM, WKYS-FM, WHURFM, WYCB-AM, Heaven 1580AM, WPFW-FM, XM
Satellite, WAVA-FM & WWGB-AM (Spanish Radio)
• Television interview with Lori Brigham, CEO on NBC
4 about WRTC’s Living Donor Program.
• AP Web Broadcast about split-liver transplant featured
Dave DeStefano, Dir. of Recovery Services.
• Article in Revolutionhealth.com, an online health
magazine.
Advertising
Donate Life Month
• Print ads in Washington Suburban News Press (49
newspapers), Asian Fortune, Afro-American, Washington Informer, Washington Jewish Week and The
Washington Examiner.
• Ads in local movie theaters (83 screens, 3 weeks)
• 30 seconds radio spots with Metro Networks, Radio
One Inc, Infinity Broadcasting Corp, WHUR-FM and
Salem Communications.
• Television advertising on WJLA-7 and NewsChannel 8
including National Cherry Blossom Festival broadcast
Total audience impressions: 62,268,534
+ drive time on 43 local radio stations!
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Donor Family Services
Media
Donate Life Month Proclamation presentations:
Left, Stafford, VA; Right, Prince George’s, MD
Quarter 1: January-April 2007
WRTC’s Hospital Development Staff and volunteers visit
hospitals to thank them for their donation efforts kicking off the new Hospital Volunteer Pairing Program.
Pictured above: Donor mother, Jeanne Ward, visiting
ICU at Washington Hospital Center in April.
• Current Young Widowhood Support Group finished March
2007.
• Widowhood Support Group meets every 1st & 3rd Mondays
at WRTC.
• Grief Seminar on Widowhood on February 2nd at WRTC
• Donor Family Council meeting on March 5th at WRTC
• Quilting Bee donor families prepared 11th Donor Remembrance Quilt on March 17th 2007 at WRTC
• Lisa Colaianni & donor dad, Ken Adams, attended LifeNet’s
Donor Family Mentoring Training Program in Richmond, VA
• Donor Family Advocate presented to Bio-Ethics class at
Georgetown Visitation High School
3rd Annual Quilting Bee
Donor families
prepared quilt
squares for the
11th Donor
Remembrance
Quilt presented
at the 16th
Annual Donor
Family Gathering
on April 15.
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Quarter 2: April-June 2007
Visitor to
Ama Tu Vida
booth reads
donation
information
in Spanish.
Nyasha Sprow and Cameron Jones served as Jr.
Captains during DC United Soccer Celebration.
WRTC provided information, answered questions
and registered potential organ and tissue donors at
RFK Stadium, Washington, D.C.
Social/Health Organization & Local Church Presentations
• Hopkins United Methodist Church, Prince George’s Co., MD
• Consulate of El Salvador, Prince William Co., VA
• Hospice of Chesapeake, Prince George’s Co., MD
• New Life Christian Center, Prince George’s Co., MD
• Iglesia Bautista Emmanuel de Manassas, Prince William Co., VA
• Falls Church Rotary Club, Falls Church, VA
Events
• D.C. United Soccer Celebration, Washington, D.C.
• Bowie Baysox game, Prince George’s County, MD
• Union Temple Baptist Church/Sheila’s Save A Life
Campaign, Washington, D.C.
• WRTC Patient Seminar at Inova Fairfax Hospital,
Fairfax, VA
• Anna C. Ringer Run/Walk Strawberry Festival,
Fauquier County, VA
SPEAKERS BUREAU
High School & Higher Education Presentations
• Damascus High School, Montgomery County, MD
• Yorktown High School, Arlington, VA
• George Mason Univ. Death & Dying Class, Fairfax, VA
• Walter Johnson High School, Montgomery Co., MD
Health Fairs
• USPS Brentwood Office, Washington, D.C.
• D.C. Superior Court, Washington, D.C.
• Charles County Government, Charles County, MD
• Defense Informations Systems, Fairfax, VA
• U.S. State Department, Arlington, VA
• Prince George’s Hospital Ctr, Prince George’s Co, MD
to be organ donors, and we reached an audience of
approximately 18,000.
Speakers Bureau volunteer, DeShawn McMillan (left), was
honored as “Working Woman of the Year” by WJLA. DeShawn’s mother died while waiting for a liver transplant, and
her foundation www.sheilasavealife.org celebrates the gift of
life through organ and tissue donation.
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Megan Clayton,
WRTC’s Hospital
Development Specialist and organ recipients displayed their
temporary “organ
tattoos” honoring
donor families at the
Prince George’s
County Hospital Center Health Fair.
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organ donation.
Media
• CNN interviewed Patty Klopfer (and her sons) about hus•
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band, John Klopfer, who was accidentally killed while working on the Springfield “Mixing Bowl” and became a donor.
Article in Washington Post about Legacy of Life Scholarship
winners from Washington, D.C.
Rhonda Gaines, Community Education Specialist interviewed on “Rotary Times” which aired on Fairfax Public
Access Television.
National Geographic Television recorded a live recovery and
a recreation of an operating room for a documentary piece to
air in the fall of 2007.
Lori Brigham, CEO, James Selby (heart and kidney recipient), and Jeanne Ward (donor mom) interviewed by The Patient Channel on “Advance Directives”.
National Geographic TV producers filmed a
“recreated
scene” and an
actual donor recovery in the OR
at Inova Fairfax
Hospital with
WRTC clinical
recovery staff.
Legacy of Life
Scholarship Winners
• Lori Brigham, CEO interviewed on Newschannel 8 about
Quarter 2: April-June 2007
Donor Family Council member Jeanne Ward shares
moment with WRTC staff Marcela Martinez (left)
and Rhonda Gaines (right) at Volunteer Appreciation
Day during April, Donate Life Month.
• Mid-Life Widowhood Support Group, every 1st & 3rd Mondays at WRTC
• Young Widowhood Support Group, every 2nd & 4th Mondays at WRTC
• Legacy of Life Scholarship winners school presentations
• Donor Family Council quarterly meeting, WRTC offices
Terry Murray
2006 Volunteer of the Year
Congratulations to all of our Scholarship Winners!
$3,000 Winners
Elisabeth Ericson-Washington International School
Rebecca Sausville-Montgomery Blair High School
Courtney D. Bush-WT Woodson High School
$1,000 Winners
Zarena Sita-Damascus High School
Anne Catherine Stokes-Heritage High School
Claudia Solis-Roman-Thomas Jefferson High School
Cherre Renee Jefferson-Woodrow Wilson High School
Visit www.BeADonor.org to read the winning essays
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In 2006, Terry Murray, donor wife and sister of a kidney
recipient who received his gift from their living donor mother,
was able to coordinate and speak to more than 20 high school
health classes in Montgomery Co., MD. Because of her endless
commitment to educate our youth and the community, she single-handedly reach more than 5,000 students and has quite
possibly saved more through her efforts. She represented
WRTC at the 2008 Rose Parade and will serve as upcoming Donor Family Council Chairperson.
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Quarter 3: July-Sept. 2007
WRTC hosted Community
Partners Seminar in partnership with the Social
Security Administration.
Invitees were social
workers from local dialysis centers.
Donor families, recipients, friends and staff of
Donate Life Mid-Atlantic enjoyed a night at the
National Minority Donor Awareness Day Celebration at Gallery Restaurant Lounge, which included
free salsa lessons, live band and free appetizers.
Events
• National Minority Donor Awareness Day Fundraiser
Social event, Silver Spring, MD
• Bowie Baysox game, Prince George’s County, MD
• MOTTEP, WRTC and WPGC radio partnered for
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National Minority Donor Awareness Day at Safeway,
Washington, D.C.
Radio One’s Stone Soul Picnic at RFK Stadium, D.C.
Hispa Expo, Convention Center, Washington, D.C.
Community Partner & Workshop with Social Security
Administration at WRTC, Fairfax, VA
Black Family Reunion, Washington Mall, D.C.
Community Day at Kettering/Largo Community Center,
Upper Marlboro, MD
Social/Health Organization & Church Presentations
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Potomac Rotary Club, Montgomery County, MD
Consulate of El Salvador, Prince William County, VA
Embassy of Guatemala Sabado Consular, Washington, D.C.
Mom’s Club @ Peace Lutheran Church, Waldorf, MD
High School Presentations
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Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, MD
High Point High School, Prince George’s County, MD
Falls Church High School, Falls Church, VA
Churchhill High School, Montgomery County, MD
Health Fairs
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Emmanuel Baptist Church, Manassas, VA
HUD, Washington, D.C.
American University, Washington, D.C.
Veteran’s Administration Hospital, Washington, D.C.
1st Baptist Church of Highland, Landover, MD
The Sanctuary of Kingdom Square, Capital Heights, MD
to be organ and tissue donors, and we reached an audience
of approximately 60,000.
WRTC participated in the annual HISPA exposition at
Washington Convention
Center, reaching 12,000
attendees, including
Equadorian Consul, below
right with WRTC’s
Marcela Martinez.
Dr. Clive Callender, founder of MOTTEP & WRTC Board of
Director member, along with staff of MOTTEP and WRTC.
All pose with WPGC personality “BIG TIGGER” for National
Minority Donor Awareness Day. MOTTEP presented WRTC
with its Outstanding Partnership Award for 2007.
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• Cindy Speas, Director of Community Affairs, interviewed on
Advertising/Media
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Newschannel 8 about Donate Life Hollywood launched to
counter inaccuracies in television and movie scripts.
WRTC pitched and placed Dr. Velma Scantlebury on three
national syndicated morning shows: Russ Parr, Yolanda Adams & Warren Ballentine.
Rhonda Gaines, Community Education Specialist, Dr. Sophia
Smith (Children’s National Medical Center) and Schonay &
Kevin Jones (parents of heart recipient Olivia Jones) interviewed on 93.9FM WKYS and Syndication One radio network focusing on NMDAD and pediatric organ donation.
Kenny Boyd, Supervisor of Clinical Recovery interviewed on
95.5FM WPGC and Heaven 1580AM about NMDAD.
Marcela Martinez, Community Education Specialist interviewed on Spanish radio station ElZol 99.1FM
Cindy Speas, Director of Community Affairs, interviewed by
Afro-American newspapers for a story on Donate Life Hollywood covering inaccuracies in television and movies scripts.
WRTC was used as a source for story on Transplant Tourism
in The Washington Diplomat.
Cindy Speas, Director of Community Affairs interviewed
with The Connection Newspapers for a story on “O Liberty
Row”; a boat row raising awareness and money for organ and
tissue donation. Adam Foote, a donor was also featured in
story because the boat was named in his honor for his courageous gift.
WRTC print advertising campaign featured ads in Washington Jewish Week, Washington Informer, Asian Fortune,
Afro-American and Washington Hispanic Newspapers.
WRTC radio advertising campaign featured commercials on
WPGC, ElZol, Heaven 1580, drive time on over 30 radio
stations and local movie theaters.
National Minority
Donor Awareness Day
August 1
Quarter 3: July-Sept. 2007
Carolina Stalin, sister of donor Leon Stalin,
visits WRTC office from Ecuador to visit her
brother’s quilt square.
• Widowhood Support Group meets every 1st & 3rd Mondays at
WRTC
• Sudden Death Grief Seminar, Holy Cross Hospital, Montgomery
County, MD
• Donor Family Council quarterly meeting, WRTC offices
Team Fat Kids:
Mountain Bike Racing Team
Supports Donation Awareness
(Left): Guy Lambert, News Director interviewed Kenny Boyd,
Supervisor of Clinical Recovery
Services on WPGC radio.
(Right): Rhonda Gaines, Dr. Sophia
Smith of Children’s Hospital,
Kevin, Schonay and Olivia Jones
(heart recipient and parents) interviewed at WKYS radio station.
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WRTC sponsored Team Fat Kids (Note to all non Gen Xers:
they ride on FAT tires!), a 30 member mountain bike gravity
racing team that competes up and down the east coast and as
far west as Arizona. Donor awareness materials were handed
out at every race as well as linked to the team web site.
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Quarter 4: Oct-Dec 2007
Social/Health Organization & Church Presentations
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George Franklin, a 32 year kidney recipient, and
Jeanne Ward, donor mom are featured on one of
the DonateLifeDC.org mobile kiosks. They were
present for the unveiling, along with DC Councilman
David Catania.
Events
● DonateLifeDC Mobile Kiosk Unveiling (John A.
Wilson), WDC
• WPGC’s For Sisters Only Expo, Washington, DC
Convention Center
• Telemundo Feria de la Familia, Convention Center
Washington, DC
• Rose Parade Send off Celebration for Donor Wife Terry
Murray at Springbrook HS, Silver Spring, MD
● Prince George’s County Food & Fitness Expo, Landover
MD
• NKF Kidney Walk, Washington, DC
• Holiday Health & Fitness Expo, Prince George’s Cty, MD
• DECA Student Assembly, Fairfax, VA
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School Presentations
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Health Fairs
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Kidney recipient Stan Marshall speaks to fair goers at the Prince
George’s County Food & Fitness Expo at the Wayne K. Curry
Sports Complex, Landover, MD.
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Watkins Middle School , Capitol Heights, MD
GMU Death & Dying Class, Fairfax, VA
Kilmer Middle School, Vienna, VA
Walker Mill Middle School, Prince George’s Cty, MD
Colonial Forge High School, Stafford, VA
Girl’s Scout Gold Award, Landover, MD
U.S. Dept. of Labor, Washington, DC
Discovery Channel Health Fair, Silver Spring, MD
Andrews Federal Credit Union, Prince George’s Cty, MD
Fannie Mae, Herndon, VA
Lockheed Martin Health Fair, Gaithersburg, MD
Sandungueo Planned Parenthood of the Metropolitan St
Joseph’s Catholic Church, Alexandria, VA
All Souls Church Diabetes HF, Washington, DC
Matworks Health Fair, Beltsville, MD
The Washington, DC Prince Hall Mason’s Annual
Communication Session, Washington, DC
Little River United Church of Christ Health Fair,
Annandale, VA
During this quarter the community education team and
193 volunteers worked diligently to increase awareness for
to be organ and tissue donors, and we reached an audience
of approximately 171,066.
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Good Shepard United Methodist Church, Vienna, VA
St. John’s Episcopal Church for National Donor Sabbath
Beltsville, MD
Men’s Healthy Day-Consulate of El’Salvador, Woodbridge,
VA
Mom’s Club, Waldorf, MD
Andrews Federal Credit Union, Suitland, MD
Covenant Baptist Church for National Donor Sabbath,
Washington, DC
Memorial United Methodist Church for National Donor
Sabbath, Poolesville, MD
Beltsville MVA Staff Training
Quester’s Luncheon, Upper Marlboro, MD
Penn Branch DMV Staff Training, Washington, DC
Southwest DMV staff training, Washington, DC
Georgetown DMV staff training, Washington, DC
Brentwood DMV staff training, Washington, DC
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wife Jacinta Marshall interviewed on WUSA 9 with J.C.
Hayward.
Kenny Boyd, WRTC Supervisor of Clinical Recovery Services, and George Franklin, 32 year kidney recipient, interviewed on several radio stations; Sportstalk 980AM, BIG
100.3, WMZQ 98.7, DC 101, Hot 99.5, WTNT 570AM, Progressive Talk 1260AM.
Terry Murray, donor wife and Rose Parade walker, interviewed with the Gazette Newspaper.
Kenny Boyd, Supervisor of Clinical Recovery Services, and
Rev. Dalton Downs, heart recipient, interviewed on WPGC
and Heaven 1580AM for National Donor Sabbath.
Rhonda Gaines, Community Education Specialist, interviewed on WAVA Christian radio discussing involvement
with religious organization during National Donor Sabbath.
WRTC radio advertising campaign featured commercials
recorded by WRTC volunteers on WKYS, Majic 102.3,
WOL, WYCB, El’Zol, Sportstalk 980AM, Praise 104.1,
WHUR, WPGC, Heaven 1580AM, WAVA. WRTC also
advertised during midday and afternoon drive time on more
than 40 local stations.
WRTC and volunteers were featured in the Afro-American
publication about the myths of organ and tissue donation in
the African-American community.
WRTC print advertising campaign featured ads in Washington Jewish Week, Washington Informer, Suburban Press
News, Afro-American, El’Tiempo, Examiner and Washington Hispanic Newspapers.
WRTC radio advertising campaign featured commercials on
WPGC, ElZol, Heaven 1580, drive time on over 30 radio
stations and local movie theaters.
WRTC advertised with the Rolling Revue Mobile Ad Truck
for 2 months..
WRTC partnered with 5 radio station to print Donate Life
messages on the back of radio stations’ event and give-away
WRTC focused advertising efforts in
Prince George’s County, MD
Quarter 4: Oct -Dec 2007
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WRTC volunteer and donor wife, Terry Murray, former
Springbrook High School art teacher, kicked off her
Rose Parade appearance at the Montgomery County
school, greeting fellow teachers and former students
who celebrated her donation education efforts.
Widowhood Support Group met at WRTC
Hope for the Holiday Seminar, WRTC office
Donor Family Council meeting, WRTC offices
Terry Murray, donor wife & Rose Parade walker, honored at sendoff reception, Springbrook HS, Silver Spring, MD.
David Martinez, donor husband, spoke at Good Shepherd Methodist
Church for Donor Sabbath.
Hedy Rossmeissl, donor wife, spoke at Christ the Servant Lutheran
for Donor Sabbath.
Carla Shoap mother of heart recipient and donor, Evin Shoap, speaks
with students at Fairfax HS.
Fall Festival sponsored by Joshua Hands, Waterford, VA
(l-r) Lori Brigham, CEO,
WUSA’s JC Hayward,
Jacinta & Stan Marshall
(Above) BeADonor message featured o Rolling Revue Media Mobile
advertising truck in DC and Prince
George’s County, MD.
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From left to right, WKYS Community Director Sheila
Stewart, WRTC recipient volunteer James Selby, WRTC’s
Rhonda Gaines and DJ Ill Will, at the time waiting for a
kidney transplant, just after on air interview.
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2007 Pictorial Highlights
Donor Family Gathering
April 15, 2007
Volunteer Appreciation Day
April 28,2007
DonateLifeDC Mobile Kiosk Unveiling Ceremony
December 20, 2007
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Celebrating the Gift of Life! 2007 Multicultural Events

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