Its the Little Things

It’s the little things. You know, the things that should be no big deal. Those are the ones that  punch you in the gut when you are already down. I recently I had one of those experiences.


Part of what I need (and am being required) to do is to fund raise in order to ensure the transplant center I can meet the economic demands of transplant. I spent more than a week writing an appeal letter to send out to my friends and social networks. After a lot of research, I decided to have the NTAF  help me with fundraising, but that is another story. 


So it has been a back and forth thing. It started out 4 pages long and ended up at one page. I sent it several times to the Patient Services Manager at NTAF with whom I am working. The IRS is very picky about how things are phrased so that NTAF and I stay within the guidelines.

Choosing a Transplant Fundraising Organization

Some of you may face a point in your life, or in the life of a friend or loved one, where you need a transplant. At this point there are only two non-profit organizations who are helping folks who are getting transplants. They are the National Foundation for Transplants (NFT) and The National Transplant and Catastrophic Injury Assistance Fund (NTAF).

I am now listed for a double-lung transplant, and may end up needing a heart-lung transplant, so I spent considerable time and energy looking at these two organizations. Out of that came a document comparing the differences between these two agencies. Both provide the same core services, and both are credible, and references were overall please to thrilled with them. The choice for me therefore lay in their differences. I created a document comparing these differences that is at the following link in a pdf file. I hope that you find it useful.

Differences Between the NFT and NTAF