Every 10 minutes, another name is added to the national organ transplant waiting list. Twenty-one people die each day from lack of a transplant.
More than 1 million tissue transplants are done each year.
Ninety percent of Americans support donation, but only 30 percent know how to become a donor.
While transplants can and do cross racial and ethnic lines, donors are more likely to match someone from their own racial or ethnic background due to genetic similarities.
One deceased organ donor can save eight lives and improve many more with cornea and tissue transplants.
