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[OPO] Welcomes [Service Area]’s First Ever SODA Chapter

[City], [State] ([Month] [Year]) - [OPO] has partnered with SODA: Student Organ Donation Advocates to launch [Service Area/State]’s first chapter to increase organ donor education and awareness in our communities.

SODA is a non-profit organization that inspires and supports student-led organ donation

education and registration efforts through high school and college chapters. The newly formed [School Name]-based chapter will be supported by [OPO] and SODA National. Teens and young adults represent a promising segment of the population that, when educated about the critical need for organ donation, may be inspired to register as organ donors.

[OPO] is providing organ donation training to these highly engaged students and providing them with the tools to conduct successful educational events alongside SODA National so SODA at [School Name] can reach their goal of educating 300 and register 30 students as organ donors per semester.

[OPO] is one of the nation’s 57 federally designated organ recovery agencies certified

and regulated by the Department of Health and Human Services. [OPO] provides life-saving organs while caring for the families of organ, eye and tissue donors by turning tragedies into

miracles. [OPO] is a tax-exempt, nonprofit service organization that saves lives through organ donation and transplantation, as well as providing organs and tissues for research to advance medical science. Our unique role allows us to care for the families of donors and to assist them through the process of donation. [OPO] serves a population of [Number] in [Service Area].

For more information on [OPO], or to register as an organ, eye, and tissue donor, visit [OPO Website].  If you would like to learn more about SODA and how they support student organ donation advocates across the country, please visit sodanational.org. You can also contact [OPO] at [OPO Phone Number].