Donor Search Success Stories

Two families at one Charlotte school crossed paths because one’s child needed a kidney. What they got in return was immeasurable.

Alex Gonzalez, a 40-year-old married father of two school-age daughters, learned last spring that he needed a life-saving kidney transplant. “Disbelief,” Gonzalez said. “I kept it to myself for a while.”

A Plainfield woman who was in search of a kidney donor for over a year has received a life-saving donation after looking at baseball games in Chicago.

For most people, hanging out at a bar is for getting some wings, beer and letting off steam. For Marsh, a bar was where she found her lifesaver.

A fixture on Mansfield-area airwaves for 35 years, Tommy Barnes was forced to temporarily sign off from the radio when doctors said his nearly decade-long battle with failing kidney function required a transplant. His youngest son, Tyler, was a match.

After Jacques Goulet donated the kidney that likely saved chef Yono Purnomo’s life in April, the most pain he felt was in his shoulder.

When Theo Alano suffered from kidney failure last year, Brooklyn-based pizza shop owner Mark Iacono shared his story on social media to his 245,000 Instagram followers.

A retired Massachusetts state trooper has spent his life helping others — but now, he’s in need of help as he searches an organ donor following a kidney failure diagnosis.

Eric Weichselbaumer isn’t looking for sympathy. He’s looking to inspire people to consider kidney donation.

There were days when Yannick Napier didn’t know what the future would hold. Then, in 2022, after a nine-year wait, Napier got a transplant. “It was a beautiful moment,” he told us two years ago.