How You Can Help
1. Make a Donation - the costs associated with a liver transplant can be upwards of $500,000.
- Click here if you want to Donate Now to help make a miracle for Raquel Allen's family.
- Click here if you would like to a Send a Check.
- Click here to search for employers with Employee Matching Gift programs.
- Click here to learn how you can designate your United Way or Combined Federal Campaign donation to COTA.
- Click here if you would like more information about planned giving options and how to become a member of COTA's McConnell Society.
2. Become an organ donor
Raquel's story is one of amazing selflessness and generosity. It is not everyday that you will come across a person willing to give up an organ for another person to live. Amazingly, many people will not even consider it after they have passed let alone while they are still living. Without this gift of life Raquel and numerous other babies like her would not have been able to carry on.
"You have the power to change someone's world by being a donor. It's about living. It's about life."
Make the your commitment known by registering your decision at www.donatelife.net/CommitToDonation/
3. Volunteer
The Children's Organ Transplant Association needs your help to make a miracle for Raquel Allen!
Volunteers are needed to help plan and implement fundraising activities. Individuals and groups who are interested in learning more about volunteer opportunities should contact the COTA for Raquel A Community Coordinator, Reesey Walton at 219-924-8689.
The COTA for Raquel A key community volunteers are:
Community Coordinator
Oversees and directs all campaign activities.
Reesey Walton (219) 924-8689
Public Relations Coordinator
Coordinates all media contacts, press releases and publicity for fundraising activities and events.
Leslie
Webmaster
Maintains and updates patient campaign website.
Lydia Kortelink 847-615-3808 or LKortelink@lfanet.org
If you could help make a miracle, would you?
The question is as simple as that. If your answer is ‘yes', I invite you to join the nearly 100,000 volunteers and contributors who during the past two decades generously donated their time and money to the Children's Organ Transplant Association (COTA). These volunteers and financial supporters are COTA's Miracle Makers -- a group of committed individuals who are helping give children across the country a second chance at life.
About COTA - COTA is a national non-profit organization that helps children and young adults who need or have had a life-saving transplant by raising funds to pay transplant-related expenses. Transplant families look to COTA for assistance and support, for miracles.
Since 1986, COTA has helped thousands of patients raise millions of dollars for transplant-related expenses. COTA is a 501(c)3 organization; therefore donations to COTA are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law. COTA is the premier national organization helping families with transplant-needy children and young adults. 100% of all funds raised are used for transplant-related expenses. COTA does not charge a fee or take a percentage of the funds raised.
Please join thousands of volunteers across the country and become a COTA Miracle Maker today. Make a donation. Volunteer to help a family. Register to be an organ and tissue donor. Help us make a miracle.