Travel Grant for the
2022 Transplant Games of America

The Michigan Donor Family Council offers a travel grant to attend the 2022 Transplant Games of America in San Diego, California, from July 29, through August 3, 2022. This program offers one $2,000 travel grant to a donor family or a living donor and family. The program is a reimbursement grant: receipts for eligible expenses must be submitted within two weeks of returning from the games. The travel grant is available to Michigan organ, eye, and tissue donor family members and living donors of organ, eye, and tissue donation.  The application includes writing a one-page letter explaining why donation is important to you. The deadline is April 4th, and the winner will be announced on April 14th.

Download the application here PDF or Word Document.

Comfort Blankets

The Michigan Donor Family Council provides beautiful comfort blankets to organ and tissue donor families at the time of their loss. We hope that this gift of compassion brings families some small amount of comfort.

 Volunteers from across the state, including donor families and transplant recipients, have created comfort blankets to support others who have lost a loved one. 

 For details about making a blanket for a donor family, please download instructions here.

Wayne State University Officer Collin Rose

In 2016, The Michigan Donor Family Council made a financial contribution to Wayne State University Police Department in memory of Officer Collin Rose who died in the line of duty and gave the gift of life. The MDFC provided each officer and employee in the department with a Donate Life skull cap in Officer Rose’s memory with his badge number embroidered on the cap. 

The Michigan Donor Family Gathering

The Michigan Donor Family Gathering is an annual event hosted by Gift of Life Michigan and Eversight that honors donors and the gifts of life, sight and mobility that they have given to help save and improve lives. At this event, the Michigan Donor Family Council provides spruce sapling trees to donor families in honor of their loved ones. Donor families are invited to bring photos of their loved ones to the event.  The MDFC creates memorial lapel button pins of the photos for donor families who are often very grateful for this opportunity to remember their loved ones.