Startup Nation held a Leading Moms in Business 2009 Competition – Celebrating America’s Top 200 mom-owned businesses and the women behind them. weefinds is #21! woo hoo!
Click here to see the winners: http://www.startupnation.com/leading-moms-2009/winners/
I saw this on bumble ink blog and had to share. All Post-Its…so cool.
Today I learned the definition of an altruistic kidney donor. It is someone who wants to donate a kidney out of the goodness of their heart. How amazing is that!?!?
Pictured to the left is Keenan (my brother’s friend) who received a kidney from a complete stranger. His wife wanted to donate her kidney to him but was not a match. So she donated to a stranger which created a donor chain.
“A donor chain creates opportunities for endless donor-recipient pairings. It starts with an altruistic donor — someone who wants to donate a kidney out of the goodness of his or her heart. That kidney is transplanted into a recipient who had a donor willing to give a kidney but whose kidney was not a match. To keep the chain going, the incompatible donor gives a kidney to another patient, unknown to him or her, who has been identified as a match, essentially “paying it forward.” A specialized computer program matches donors and recipients across the country.”
In this chain, one of the altruistic donors was a firefighter who wanted to honor the memory of his 24-year-old son who was killed in a snowmobile accident. Such a selfless act! These are truely amazing people doing amazing things. It makes me want to donate now.
Video: http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/health&id=6866455
Articles:
http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_12596648
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/PRN-two-altruistic-donors-launch-rare-94189.aspx
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