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							            Fact Sheet for Executive Speeches and Press Releases

                 Workplace Partnership for Life Give 5 – Save Lives

The goal of the Give 5 – Save Lives campaign is to register 400,000 new organ donor
designations by July 31, 2007. The campaign is bringing together organ procurement
organizations and Donate Life America affiliates with companies and organizations that
have agreed to educate their employees and members about organ donation and to give
them the opportunity to register their donation decisions.

Spearheaded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Give 5 – Save
Lives campaign will tap the 11,100 companies and organizations that have already
agreed to become “Workplace Partners” in the “Workplace Partnership for Life,” a
broader organ donor awareness program created in 2001.

Give 5 – Save Lives is needed because the fact remains that 96,000 Americans are
currently awaiting a life-saving organ transplant. An average of 17 to 19 people on the
national waiting list die every day because no organ is available. In addition, hundreds of
thousands of people could benefit from tissue and eye donations.

The Give 5 – Save Lives campaign, which began on April 2 and runs through July 31,
encourages all employers—at corporations, associations, and businesses large and
small—to offer three brief, informative, 5-minute sessions to all employees. These can
be offered on the web, through email, or through workplace health fairs and donor
awareness programs. All are designed not only to provide each employee or member
with the opportunity to learn more about the critical importance of organ and tissue
donation, but also to make sign-up quick and convenient.

The Workplace Partnership for Life maintains a large database that can help connect
Workplace Partners with their local organ procurement organizations and Donate Life
America affiliates. The Give 5 – Save Lives campaign encourages partnerships that will
help educate employees and the broader public about the need for organ donors. The
initiative includes specific suggestions for how these partnerships can effectively
encourage employees and others to register to become organ donors.

The campaign was developed by a national leadership team of representatives from the
U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration, Donate Life America, United
Network for Organ Sharing, Eye Bank Association of America, American Association of
Tissue Banks, Association of Organ Procurement Associations’ PR/PE Council, and
various organ procurement organizations and Workplace Partners.

For more information about the Workplace Partnership for Life Give 5 – Save Lives
campaign, visit www.akoyaonline.com/wpfl or contact Shelly Morningstar at
shelly@akoyaonline.com or 412-481-9800.