Learning Library Videos & Other Resources
Learn How to Talk-Up Your Search for a Living Kidney Donor!
If you’re hoping to find a living kidney donor to shorten your wait for a transplant—The Donor Seeker® video series (and informative resource section) can help!
In under 15-minutes you’ll learn how to share your story with more confidence & ease by boosting your Donor-Magnet® spirit. Apply these powerful communication tips—and start attracting interested donors today! Click here
*Look for our new MOBILE APP called: “DONOR SEEKER” for free download on Apple App Store or Google Play Store.
Having difficulty trying to explain living kidney donation to others?
Do your friends and family understand living kidney donation or who might be able to consider getting tested?
Be sure to check out the information link after watching the video at www.1kidney.org
Untethered Truths: Preemptive Transplantation – English Version
Hope to get a transplant before your need dialysis? On dialysis and hope to end your wait for a transplant? Watch this video to learn more about the value of seeking a transplant before dialysis is required, and the overall value of transplantation. Watch Now in English
Untethered Truths: Preemptive Transplantation – Spanish Translation
Hope to get a transplant before your need dialysis? On dialysis and hope to end your wait for a transplant? Watch this video to learn more about the value of seeking a transplant before dialysis is required, and the overall value of transplantation. Watch Now in Spanish
Listen to a living kidney donor share her inspirational story about living kidney donation.
It wasn’t part of Michelle’s grand plan to become a living kidney donor. Her life was already crazy-busy and she wasn’t looking for additional things to add to her list. However, when she heard of a person in need, she said, “Why not!” Michelle’s life is still crazy-busy, but now it’s more fulfilled knowing she was able to help someone in need live an equally fulfilling life, because of her remarkable living-donor’s gift-of-life.
Living Kidney Donor & Recipient Interview
Melissa Blevins Bein, Living kidney donor and her preemptive transplant recipient share their inspirational stories to empower others to follow their lead.
Share this video with family and friends to help them understand living kidney donation and the long wait for a kidney from a deceased organ donor.
Role Play Video: Listen to hopeful recipient share her story with a friend.
While transplant hopeful updates a friend on her health status she expresses her hope for finding a living kidney donor.
While asking her friend to help her share her story in social media, a magical shift takes place when her friend’s desire to help transitions into a stronger desire to consider becoming her donor.
Post-Transplant Patients Share Their Stories.
Transplant Ambassadors share their stories to inspire other kidney patients approaching the need for a transplant.
Ambassador spokespersons are sharing their experiences to raise awareness and inspire change for a better tomorrow for all those in need. Watch Now
*Transplant Ambassadors in this video are taking extended-release Prograf (Envarsus-XR by Veloxis Pharmaceuticals) Please read safety information about Envarsus XR here.
In Pursuit of a Better Life. You’re in need of a kidney transplant and hope to avoid dialysis, or be free of the machine. Yet, the wait for a deceased donor’s kidney will have you waiting years. You’ve been told your best option is to find a living kidney donor, but how does one find a kidney donor? What do you say to a potential kidney donor? How do you weave your story into an opportunity or “ASK?”
In Pursuit of a Better Life: The Ultimate Guide for Finding Kidney Donors is a inspirational, self-help “marketing guide” written to empower transplant candidates to attract potential donors, without ever having to ask. This book is also an amazing rescue guide for dialysis patients who are counting the days to be free of the machine, in hopes of a better life. Learn more here
Shift Your Fate: Life-Changing Wisdom for Proactive Kidney Patients is a motivational self-help book that offers proactive strategies for patient self-advocacy following diagnosis up to time of need. From why our kidney are so important to the difference between dialysis and transplant, to the unparalleled value of preemptive (live-donor) transplants – this book will get you there. Learn more here.