TRIO

Register as an organ donor today:

click here to find your state registry

The Power of Two movie is now available for home use - purchase it at Amazon.com (<-- click to order - just $19.99)!

Issa, RayG and Merle

Isabel Stenzel Byrnes, double lung recipient,
Ray Gabel, 2 time heart recipient and
Merle Zuel heart recipient at the
KC premiere of "The Power of Two"

Support TRIO:

click here to Download a Contribution Form (PDF 60k) and mail in your contribution..

Join a TRIO Chapter

Locate a TRIO Chapter near you by clicking on this title, then join that TRIO Chapter by Downloading a Membership Form (PDF 76k) or if there is no local chapter in your area...

click here to Join TRIO as a member-at-large

Volunteer with your local chapter or on a National Committee

Become an organ donor

Contribute through the Combined Federal Campaign and the United Way

Donate your frequent flyer miles! United Airlines frequent flyer miles are urgently needed to provide FREE transplant-related air travel to donors and recipients click here for Travel Program details

What Can TRIO do for YOU?

Click this title to find out how TRIO serves the community.

TRIO Liaisons

The national TRIO Board of Directors has established liaison roles for ongoing contact and communication wth major transplant organizations. Contact them [Visit Liaisons] if you can help or need their services in communicating with those organizations.

Communication Guides

Guidelines for both Recipient/Donor Communications as well as a new Sensitive Terminology for Organ Donation guide are available under Communications. Please review these guidelines for your use in your presentations and discussions.

TRIO needs YOU!

The national TRIO Board of Directors is composed of TRIO members who take the cause to a new level of dedication and active participation, providing leadership at the national level (...while maintaining active roles in their local TRIO Chapters). If you have the skills and interest, use the "Contact" link on bottom of this page to ask for more information.

PS: There are also many opportunities to participate on national committees, so please consider that too when you contact us. For a current list of TRIO committees, their aims and committee member names, download the Committee 2011 list PDF document here.

TRIO Chapter Activity Reports

On the Active Chapter list click on each Activity Report link for ideas and best practices.

Lifelines Newsletters on-line

Archived issues of the quarterly TRIO newsletter, Lifelines, are now available under the Communications link above.

Transplant Book Reviews on-line
(updated with new books/reviews 10/24/12)
Books Reviewed

There are so many excellent educational and inspiring books both about transplant and patient stories, what to read (of give as gifts)? In our Communications section there are now over one hundred and fifty transplant related book titles, including a constantly growing list of newly released excellent reads, many of which are reviewed by a transplant patient as a guide to your own reading interests. To view the most recently added book reviews by book cover, click here --> Most Recent . Also, contribute to the discussion and add your own comments about these and other books on the TRIO Bulletin Board

TRIO's Past Items . . .
(click on titles below to read their full story)

TRIO Carepages now available
   Reach out to share ...
New Communications Section
   Your opinion counts! Reach out to help others...
Transplant Movie Nights
   TRIO Philadelphia co-sponsors transplant movies..
Transplant Resource Links
   Over 700 links verified regularly...
TRIO Bulletin Board
  Log in and post your questions, ideas and topics. Communicate with other transplant recipients, donors and families. Check out our new topics and add your own suggestions. Help build this community with your own postings to help others. Add your own questions and thoughts.

Welcome to TRIO . . .

Special Leadership Summit/Anniversary Dinner feature:
Videos of TRIO's 1991 and 1992 Conventions (<-- click here)

Thanks to everyone who participated in our recent
TRIO "post transplant sex survey" in support of
our Leadership Summit workshop on the topic:
"Post Transplant Intimacy"-

While that survey is now closed but you can view the Leadership Summit video recording of that workshop and the raw data results of the survey by clicking here: 2012 Leadership Summit

<< Celebrating 25 years of service >>

. . . your voice of the transplant community

TRIO is an independent, not-for-profit, international organization committed to improving the quality of life of transplant candidates, recipients, their families and the families of organ and tissue donors.

TRIO national board meets at CORE Sept 28th, 2012 with chapter guests

News of TRIO and Transplant

(click on category titles below to jump to that news page):

2013 Transplant Nurses Day Essay Contest:
"What My Transplant Nurse Means to Me" - offered by ITNS (<- click here to see details)
New web site feature: Volume 4 of Transplant Presentation Library new titles added WITH links to flyers for full topic/speaker details (see Presentation Library under Communications category above - i.e. use the navigation menu for those links)
New web site feature: Member stories
With the Spring issue, we are offering expanded articles linked from shorter Lifeline articles to fuller versions here. We began with two member stories (Jan's and Claude's) and are expanding to more over the months and years to come. Click on each title to go to that article:

News from TRIO National (updated 3/13/13)

Meet new TRIO board member: Marty Maren from TRIO Maryland
TRIO March E-News (available here for 30 days) - ...to get your own personalized copy of future monthly issues send your e-mail address to Sylvia Leach at sleach@trioweb.org
Harvey Mysel elected to TRIO board (<-- click here to see more)
Call for action in support of Senate bill to extend kidney drug coverage (click for details -->) TRIO E-News of 2/19/13
2/9/13 Sad News: TRIO Board Members, both Alex Boyer and "JT" Rhodes died recently
Benefits of TRIO membership explained in new document
2013 TRIO scholarship application now available (<-- click to download WORD file application)
TRIO Maryland: new chapter chartered
Videos of TRIO's 1991 and 1992 Conventions