Promote Organ Donor Awareness

Through public service announcements, charity events, speaking engagements and social gatherings, the JFC Foundation will provide a presence to bring about awareness of just how important the decision is to become an organ donor and the profound benefit to society that decision will have. In addition, the JFC Foundation will help existing organ donation organizations get their education more widespread than has currently been achieved.

Promote Care Provider Awareness

In many areas throughout our country, the initial consultation with a grieving family takes place by a medical care provider (nurse, doctor, etc.). The JFC Foundation has learned that when a transplant specialist (Life Gift, Southwest Transplant Alliance, etc.) has the opportunity to consult with grieving families, they are successful nearly 85% of the time. As such, it is the intent of the JFC Foundation to help the care provider community better understand that there are experts waiting in the wings to have that critical, often difficult, conversation with the deceased's grieving family members. It provides separation of care providers from organ donation, which is often a troublesome element to the grieving family members.

Promote Disease Prevention via Nutritional Awarenes

The transplant list for all solid organs contains over 90,000 people in the United States. To that end, nearly 2/3rds on the list are awaiting kidney transplantation. Most of these people awaiting a kidney transplant are suffering from Type II (Adult Onset) Diabetes, which is highly avoidable through good nutrition and proper fitness. By bringing awareness to Americans regarding the impact that their nutritional intake has on their quality of life and well being, we will work to bring about a new attitude in prevention thereby working the transplant list from both ends.