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National Minority Donor Awareness Month is a collaborative initiative of the National (Organ, Eye and Tissue Donation) Multicultural Action Group (NMAG) to save and improve the quality of life of diverse communities by creating a positive culture for organ, eye, and tissue donation. National Minority Donor Awareness Month stems from National Minority Donor Awareness Week, founded in 1996 by the National Minority Organ Tissue Transplant Education Program (MOTTEP), to bring heightened awareness to donation and transplantation in multicultural communities – focusing primarily on African American, Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islander and Native American communities.
There is an alternative to the National Minority Donor Awareness Month (NMDAM) observance name – National Multiethnic Donor Awareness Month – and a corresponding logo. Organizations are encouraged to use the version of NMDAM preferred by the communities they serve.
NMAG members include: American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB), the American Kidney Fund, Association for Multicultural Affairs in Transplantation (AMAT), Association of Organ Procurement Organizations (AOPO), Donate Life America (DLA), Eye Bank Association of America (EBAA), Heath Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), National Minority Organ Tissue Transplant Education Program (MOTTEP) National Kidney Foundation (NKF), Student Organ Donation Advocates (SODA), The Links, Incorporated, the Transplant Life Foundation, University of Pittsburgh DEI Health Sciences, and the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS).
Resources for the public are available on nmag1.org and DonateLife.net/NMDAM.
The National Minority Donor Awareness Month artwork and copy are the property of the National Multicultural Action Group. Artwork may not be copied, altered or reproduced.