Transplant Recipients International Organization Inc Parent

TRIO provides C.A.R.E. to an Online and Physical community of transplant candidates, recipients and their families that creates:

Community
Creates physical & virtual community to foster relationships and friendships between people whose lives have been impacted by organ, eye and tissue donation.

Awareness
Promotes the importance of organ and tissue donation across the world.

Recognition
Recognizes and respect the sacrifices made by organ, eye and tissue donors and their families.

Education
Offers word-class programming and other important resources that helps educate and provides support to transplant candidates, transplant recipients, transplant care givers and donor families. Alll with a focus on promoting organ donation.

We have an almost 40 year old organization supported by 3000 members and 20 active chapters. We have begun to build and focus on developing our online community to grow our numbers in a significant and meaningful way that will attract the attention and funding from various stakeholders looking to improve quality and outcomes in transplant patients and create a greater awareness of how people can help. Our intention is to build enough critical mass in virtual membership, offering enough value that we become a group that support a reasonable membership fee and begin to attract the sponsorship from industry. We would like to be in a position where TRIO is run and powered by a paid staff, reporting to a broader, larger board of directors. Long term success will be dependent on our ability to create value for our constituents and stakeholders. We believe that this is a very achievable goal.

We have an existing 503(c)3 designation and a 30 year history of focusing on our four core customers. Most of what needs to be done is to better identify and manage partnerships with the key stakeholders to help ensure we help them reach their goals. Presently, we have a very tenured volunteer staff with the knowledge, connections and energy to help shepherd this group through this transition. We are seeking additional sources of funding and are actively making moves to improve our efforts in sourcing virtual members and other means of funding. Our board has assembled a strategic plan and will be meeting in this year to continue working toward achieving its goals.
We will have to make investment in a number of new value added programs, content and technology to meet and address our virtual community, which we believe will help feed and grow our local chapter organization.

We have successfully recruited and added new board memberships and have agreed that these changes are necessary for the long term success of TRIO. As we function today, we already provide significant value to many of our customers, but realize that there is no single NFP that really pulls all the needs and resources into a single group that could address the needs of the entire community without replacing the quality and outcomes provided by other key stakeholders in the transplant community. This is is an audacious undertaking that will furher simplify the needs of the transplant community.