MetaFilter posts tagged with donation

Stem Cell Awareness and The Black Community

shetterly — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:17:06 -0800

Stem Cell Awareness and The Black Community "Due to genetic variance, 1 in 500 Europeans need to be on the registry, but 1 in 10 Africans should be on the registry worldwide..." 5 Fast Facts on Bone Marrow Registration and Donation. If you want to find out more about whether you can save a life, visit Be The Match (US), OneMatch (Canada), or the Anthony Nolan Trust (UK).

Lesbian partner denied access

Morrigan — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:54:10 -0800

Suit alleges that her partner of 18 years and her children were denied access to dying woman in Florida hospital. Due to her organ donation, however, Lisa Marie Pond’s heart survives.

Death by organ donation?

shokod — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 04:42:07 -0800

Is it time to redefine death? In a recent article in the NEJM, a team of doctors described decreasing the period after cessation of heart function in order to collect donations and increase their viability. This has spiked some debate over the definition of brain death and the "irreversibility" of asystole after removing life support. An introduction to the situation and the arguments. An interesting round table discussion, chaired by Atul Gawande. "The ethically relevant precondition is valid consent...with such consent, there is no harm or wrong done in retrieving vital organs before death, provided that anesthesia is administered." "This means that under current law, it is not possible to procure a transplantable heart after cardiac death. There are two possible ways out of this dilemma. Both involve legal changes." "To what extent should society permit manipulation of an organ donor or alteration of the determination of human death for the good of organ recipients?" Previously More fun stuff: Legal definitions: the death act (US); Transplantation and Anatomy Act, s45(1) (AUS); the UK has no precise definition for brain death. Criteria for determining if someone is actually brain dead. Statistics on US donors. The status of the international organ trade. The issues of the opt-in vs opt-out system And, of course, how to donate: US, AUS, UK.

Bone Marrow Donation

socalsamba — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:01:02 -0800

Using YouTube to find a bone marrow donor A 26 year old woman is using YouTube to help find a bone marrow donor. If nothing else, take some time to learn a little about matching.

Rethinking aid donations

insatiablehee — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:45:30 -0800

40% of Afghan aid returns to donor countries. In today's guardian, it has been reported that 40% of the money promised/delivered to aid Afghan has been spent on "corporate profits and consultancy fees" and that "Much of the money earmarked for aid is diverted to political or military purposes." It make one think about the realities and purposes of aids especially when one considers the conditionality the aids entail, such as world bank's conventionalities which includes liberalisation and privatization of public goods etc in addition to the amount of tax deduction companies and individuals get. These problems have been addressed, such as UK charity organisation asking their government to withhold money from the world bank until it changes the conventionalities of funds, which unfortunately did not succeed. Last year UK's development secretary, Douglas Alexander handed £2bn-plus to the institutions no strings attached.

OR-gan-leg-gers, OR-gan-leg-gers...

DataPacRat — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 15:01:31 -0800

China is reported to be harvesting organs from Falun Gong members without their consent. Elsewhere, to increase the numbers of donated organs, the organ donation system is opt-out rather than opt-in for the entire population.

It Can't Taste THAT Bad

fenriq — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:39:07 -0800

Tons of British Food for Katrina Victims to be Incinerated (link to Mirror article)
More red ta pe embarrassment for the Katrina relief effort. This time, tons of food donated by the UK is set to be incinerated rather than delivered to hungry evacuees. The FDA recalled the food rations, which had been loaded onto trucks and sent out for distribution, because they had been "condemned as unfit for human consumption". Never mind the glaring fact that these are the same food rations being eaten by British soldiers in Iraq right now.

Man Giveth, the Church Taketh, Whateth Be the Problem?

fenriq — Tue, 13 Jan 2004 16:59:18 -0800

Man Wants Church Donation Back
A man, in the midst of a serious bout of depression, gives away almost his entire life savings, $126,000, to a local church. He later realizes that this was not the smartest thing to do. He asks the church for the money back. The church, not surprisingly, says they've already spent it and so he can't have it back.
What's next?
Bust out the lawyers!

McNewsFilter

bluedaniel — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 08:24:37 -0800

McNewsFilter... National Public Radio is announcing today the largest donation in its history, a cash bequest from the will of the late philanthropist Joan Kroc of McDonalds of well over $200 million.

Unmitigated gall.

MattD — Sat, 22 Feb 2003 17:35:41 -0800

Unmitigated gall. The illegal aliens who got two hearts and two lungs for their daughter REFUSED to have any of her organs donated when it was clear she was brain-dead...

Good news for poetry

dougb — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 20:57:05 -0800

An astonishing bequest of $100 million to Poetry Magazine instantly turns a 4-person literary journal into the wealthiest poetry organization on the planet. The benefactress, Ruth Lilly, has given millions to libraries and medical research labs in the midwest. But poetry has never been showered with such munificence until now. What will this donation achieve beyond ensuring the existence of the journal into perpetuity?

rhyax — Fri, 28 Dec 2001 20:39:10 -0800

A week before filing for bankruptcy protection, energy giant Enron Corp. donated $100,000 to the Democratic Party committee that helps Senate candidates, campaign finance reports show. Enron has been talked about before, so do people think this is an important sum of money, if not why is CNN covering it?

verdezza — Sun, 09 Dec 2001 13:34:03 -0800

"There is a deep hunger in America post-Sept. 11 in many people who feel this is their war in their backyard and they would like to be summoned by the president to do something more than go shopping. If you just look at the amount of money spontaneously donated to victims' families, it's clear that there is a deep reservoir of energy out there that could be channeled to become a real force for American renewal and transformation — and it's not being done." Excellent editorial in today's NY Times (free registration required) by Tom Friedman exhorting Bush to use his currently formidable political capital by calling on Americans to step up and "be the best country, and the best global citizens, we can be."

rich — Fri, 21 Sep 2001 19:38:15 -0800

The media comes through.. networks actually working together, along with cable companies, as well as Hollywood. Muhammad Ali and Billy Joel just floored me. You can also donate at foodstores and dozens of other easy to get to places, so there are no excuses. I'm still waiting for them to need for physical labor volunteers.

zerotype — Tue, 18 Sep 2001 11:59:42 -0800

Libertyunites.com is a crisis relief site where you can donate directly to the charity of your choice, with no fees or costs...

riffola — Fri, 14 Sep 2001 12:48:51 -0800

GE pledges $10 million to a fund that will assist the families of the firefighters, police officers and emergency rescue personnel who perished while responding to the attack on the World Trade Center. Cisco Systems has made gifts to key relief and support organizations serving the New York City and Washington D.C. areas, including a $6 million donation. Microsoft is making a donation of $10 million in cash and technical services. Know of any other companies that are doing something similar?

NortonDC — Tue, 11 Sep 2001 20:23:23 -0800

Amazon's Red Cross donation page as pointed to by arielmeadow in the big thread. This deserves front page treatment.

holgate — Mon, 18 Jun 2001 16:11:52 -0800

Give a sheep. That's what Paul Ford did. He also gave us this.

Tubes — Mon, 15 Jan 2001 09:32:18 -0800

Iraq to Donate $94 Million to Poor Americans Interesting propaganda. But more interestingly - disregarding the donor, would the US ever accept such a donation? (How could we admit a need for charity at home when we send billions in aid abroad?) And what's next? We're not of a mindset to accept foreign meddling. What about UN relief efforts? International peacekeeping forces?

ZachsMind — Sat, 06 Jan 2001 09:21:00 -0800

Donate a Mammogram! My aunt sent me this URL so be nice. =) If you go there and click on the button, a woman gets a free mammogram at no cost to you. Corporate sponsors pay for it. Only one free mammogram donation per person. Sure it's corny but it's for a good cause. Besides, it is every man's sacred duty to do what he can to insure all the world's breasts are in top form. =)

metrocake — Mon, 16 Oct 2000 11:39:14 -0800

Search Engine Northernlight Donating Ad Revenue to Hospital One of my favorite search engines, Northernlight.com, is doing some benefit work -- during the week of October 14th through October 20th, searches on Northern Light will benefit the Duke Children's Hospital. Pretty cool -- and they're a good search engine, too.