Kidney Disease: A Silent Killer in the Black Community

Kidney Disease: A Silent Killer in the Black Community

Hello, I’m Bill Catlette. For 8 years I’ve been on the board of directors of the National Foundation for Transplants, a national, Memphis-based nonprofit that advocates for organ and tissue transplant patients and helps them raise critically needed funds for uncovered...

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The Power of Impact:  Introducing NFT’s Adopt-A-Patient

The Power of Impact: Introducing NFT’s Adopt-A-Patient

Have you ever wanted to do something to help others but couldn’t decide where to start, how to help, or whom to help?  Like most donors, you want your financial donation to make a real difference in someone’s life . . . to have a direct impact, personally.  However,...

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Surprising Strangers with a Gift of Life

Surprising Strangers with a Gift of Life

(Above Photo)  Kidney Donor Athletes' One Kidney Climb.  Twenty-two kidney donors climbed to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania to promote living donor organ transplants. Our society is accustomed to complete strangers donating gifts to people they do not...

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Eight-Year-Old Hannah’s New Lease On Life

Eight-Year-Old Hannah’s New Lease On Life

NFT pediatric patient, Hannah, and her parents speak about her transplant journey during Give Blood, Share Joy blood drive. When Hannah was eight years old, turning nine, she spent almost an entire year in the hospital.  Her health issues started with concerning...

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9/11 Fire Chief Gets a New Heart

9/11 Fire Chief Gets a New Heart

On Tuesday morning, September 11, 2001, Terry Shaffer was one of the first responders to arrive at Flight 93 crash site in Somerset County, Pennsylvania in a field near Shanksville.  The plane had crashed in Shaffer’s fire district. Tragically, there were no survivors...

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