Gift of Life Michigan

We Honor Life Through Donation

Choosing to become an organ and tissue donor can make an impact on many lives. Read the stories of donors and recipients, and find out how you can make a difference!

Science teacher April Barnier prepares her Ypsilanti classroom for an All of Us presentation. She welcomes Gift of Life more than once each year to help students understand how donation works and why giving hope and life to others is important.

Read the digital LifeLINES magazine

LifeLINES is available as a digital magazine flipbook. Check it out!

Liver recipient Alex and his mom, Tanisha, at his high school graduation.

Young man with donated liver reaches a milestone

From the outside, 18-year-old Alex Chandler seems like a typical teenager with a love for video games and spending time with his friends. On the inside, he’s got something pretty special. 

Leslie Palacios is a double cornea transplant recipient who shares her story in Hispanic communities

Paying it forward with new vision

With her vision restored, Leslie Palacios helps others see the need to be donors.

Ossium Health is working to find more sources of life-saving bone marrow for patients in need. Organ donors are now giving marrow through Gift of Life Michigan and other organizations.

Ossium Health enables organ donors to save even more lives

Gift of Life collaborates with bioengineering leader for bone marrow transplantation

Chef Oliver Hale is a two-time kidney transplant recipient

Transplant Throwback: Chef Oliver Hale

Chef O received kidney transplants in 1985 and 2012, and he's still going strong!

Campus Challenge 2025

Post-secondary students across the state will compete to see which school can save and heal more lives!

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Paddles for a Purpose

Four Michigan pickleball players will attempt to set a new Guinness World Record by completing more than 34 hours and 6 minutes of consecutive pickleball […]

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Donation in Multicultural Communities

Since 1971, Gift of Life Michigan has honored life by connecting people who need vital organ and tissue transplants with donors.

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Latinx Experience

The decision to donate is an important decision. We know that faith and family informs this decision.

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African American Experience

Despite a history of mistrust and misinformation, doctors will work just as hard to save your life.

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Arab American Experience

We are partnering with healthcare professionals and community leaders to ensure information about organ donation is culturally sensitive and consistent with faith beliefs.

Making a Difference

Who We Serve

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Donors

Learn how to become a donor, what organs are eligible for donation, and more.

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Donor Families

We help you and the rest of your family cope, grieve, understand and – if you wish – become an advocate of donation.

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Recipients

While GOL doesn't work directly with/assign organs to recipients, transplant recipients are why we do what we do.

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Volunteers

Want to get involved? Find out how you can make a difference through volunteering with Gift of Life Michigan!

By the Numbers
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Number of Michigan patients who have received a life-saving organ transplant in the past 10 years.
Number of lives saved each day by an organ transplant in the United States.
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Number of people on the national organ transplant waiting list.
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