Service Statement

The services NJ Sharing Network offers to funeral homes all center around determining what the transplant and funeral professionals can do together in order to assure a family’s wishes for organ and tissue donation and a meaningful funeral are fulfilled. This stretches from the contact made to the funeral home before and after the recovery to the procedures followed by the surgical recovery staff.

Communication

When the donor family has selected a funeral home prior to the recovery, the Funeral Home Liaison or a designee will notify the funeral home with the logistics of the recovery. A follow up call will also be made to the funeral home by the Liaison within one week.

For more information contact:

George Forleo
Funeral Home and medical Examiner Liaison
973-379-4535 x2048
gforleo@sharenj.org

Suggested Organ and Tissue Wording in Obituary and “Donate Life” Symbol

With the funeral directors’ help we encourage all donor families to include that their loved one was a donor in the obituary by both suggesting sample language and the inclusion of a “Donate Life” symbol, pictured below. Sample wording NJ Sharing Network suggests:

• In keeping with _____ loving and generous spirit, it was his/her decision to donate life so others may live.
• _______ gave the gift of life through (organ and/or tissue) donation.
• _______ final generous act was to give the gift of life through (organ and/or tissue) donation.

NJ Sharing Network has provided The Star Ledger with a version of the nationally recognized “Donate Life” logo for their loved one’s printed obituary. Should a family elect to have the symbol printed in the that publication, NJ Sharing Network is prepared to reimburse the funeral home for this expense. For a version of the “Donate Life” symbol to be used in a funeral home’s on-line memorial, right click on the image below. For a high resolution version of this logo, please contact info@sharenj.org.

Foundation Donations

Supporting the Sharing Network Foundation can be done through direct contributions, memorial and tribute gifts, and employer-matched funds. All contributions are tax-deductible as permitted by law.

To make a contribution please send a check or money order made payable to Sharing Network Foundation and mail it to the following address:

Sharing Network Foundation
Attn: Marsha Kefer
841 Mountain Ave.
Springfield , NJ 07081

All donors will receive a letter of acknowledgment by mail. This letter will also serve as evidence of your tax-deductible contribution.