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Dash for Donation – Save the Date!

Save the date – the Dash for Donation is back in a new location! Saturday, July 16, 2016 Genoa Park, Columbus Registration opens: Early April – www.dashfordonation.org Questions? Contact Juli at jkunselman@lifelineofohio.org or 614-384-7375.

Summer Greetings from our CEO

This summer is shaping up to be one of HOPE and INSPIRATION in so many ways! Locally and throughout Ohio these past few months we prepared for the 2016 Transplant Games of America. The Games were held in Cleveland from June 10 -15 and offered the chance for the thousands of attendees to compete in […]

Dash date falls on the birthday of two Heroes on Foot

For two families celebrating the lives of their loved ones, the Dash for Donation’s July 13 date holds special significance. Matt Brady and Adam Wasielewski saved and healed lives as organ and tissue donors Team Adam’s Army and Team Brady will celebrate their donor’s birthdays on race day this year. Adam Wasielewski would have been […]

Dash’s Donor Wall Honors Organ Donation Heroes

The sea of green will form on July 13 in downtown Columbus as the Dash for Donation 5K honors the heroes of organ, eye and tissue donation. For a special tribute to each life-saving donor, the event features a Donor Remembrance Wall where families can post posters commemorating their loved ones who gave the gift […]

Heroes on Foot: Be the Inspiration, Be the Dash Sea of Green!

The 2012 Sea of Green photo of nearly 4,000 Dash participants IS inspiration in action. Whether running or walking, you will be among thousands of miracles in motion: those who have received the Gift of Life through a heart, liver, lung, kidney, pancreas, small bowel, eye or tissue transplant; those families whose deceased loved one generously gave the gift of life; and those who have given unselfishly as living donors. Picture yourself as part of such an amazing sea of people—the Dash for Donation Sea of Green!

Heroes on Foot: The Cheetah that Left his Footprint Behind

By: Megan Lynch I remember the first time I saw Ian. He was five years old with curly blonde hair, a mini version of his father. Ian and his dad were passing me in the hallway at our workplace. Ian looked at me with big blue-green eyes and then, in a flash, ran to catch […]