Colorado: CHECK THE BOX to Save & Heal Lives.
You can make a difference like Ryan did, and register as an organ, eye and tissue donor the next time you are at the DMV. Your decision can save up to 8 lives and heal up to 75 more.
Wyoming: CHECK THE BOX to Save & Heal Lives
You can make a difference like Gabby did, and register as an organ, eye & tissue donor the next time you are at the DMV. Your decision can save up to 8 lives and heal up to 75 more.
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1 person could save 8 lives through organ donation
And heal up to 75 lives through tissue donation
When you say “Yes” to the donor registry, you're not just checking a box on your driver license. You’re bridging hope from one life to the next. You’re saving up to eight lives. You’re empowering families to heal. There’s so much power in a “Yes” because it can ripple across time and space forever. By saying “Yes” and joining the donor registry, you are bridging hope from one life to the next.
How organ and tissue donation works
There are nearly 1,300 people waiting for a life-saving organ transplant in Colorado, Wyoming and the United States.
When a registered donor passes away, Donor Alliance meets with the family and medical professionals to help honor the donor’s decision.
A nationwide database quickly identifies the best match for an organ and a transplant recipient.
Donor Alliance helps facilitate the recovery and transportation of the donor’s gifts to transplant centers in a safe and timely manner.
Donor Alliance walks alongside families and honors their loved one’s lifesaving and healing gifts.
Who is Donor Alliance?
You can help save and heal lives.
Our mission is to save and heal lives through organ and tissue donation and transplantation throughout Colorado and most of Wyoming. Donor Alliance honors a person’s decision to give the gift of life by respectfully working with the families of organ and tissue donors and maintaining partnerships with hospitals. Donor Alliance also educates residents in Colorado and Wyoming on the lifesaving benefits of organ and tissue donation. In addition, Donor Alliance manages the Donate Life Colorado and Donate Life Wyoming registries. The registry is a confidential, first-person authorization list of a person’s decision to give the gift life. By registering your decision, you are giving hope to those who are awaiting lifesaving and healing transplants.
Stories of Hope
Beth and Larry Sparks will always remember their son Clayton as kindhearted, full of life, and the kind of person who made everyone feel like they belonged. In 2019, Clayton died at just 24 years old. Before his death, he made the decision to be an organ donor. That decision now lives on in multiple lives.
Rita believed that generosity was a way of life. “I am always blessed to receive because I am always willing to give,” she would often say. When Rita passed away in 2023, her daughter, Elita, found solace in those very words. Knowing her mother had chosen to be an organ donor helped shift her focus from what was being lost to what was being given.
“Going through with the surgery was the best thing I could have ever done,” Kelsi shared. “I think it’s safe to say that if I didn’t receive donor bone, I would be living a completely different life.”
Donation Essentials Blog
Organ, Eye & Tissue Donation FAQs
Donor Alliance is a federally-designated, non-profit organ procurement organization (OPO) and an accredited tissue bank serving Colorado and most of Wyoming. As a recognized leader in facilitating the donation and recovery of organs and tissue, our mission is to save and heal lives through organ and tissue donation and transplantation. To achieve this mission, Donor Alliance maintains partnerships with more than 100 hospitals in the region. Our organization also walks alongside the family during the organ recovery process to ensure their loved one’s gifts are safely received at transplant centers in a timely manner. Donor Alliance is a unique OPO as we also manage the donor registries in the region, Donate Life Colorado and Donate Life Wyoming. Through Donate Life, Donor Alliance inspires people to register as an organ and tissue donor through community partnerships, public outreach and education campaigns throughout the region.
The process of recovering organs and tissue from a deceased person for transplantation to save and heal lives. . One person can save up to eight lives through organ donation and save and heal up to 75 lives through tissue donation. Each year, the lives of approximately 500,000 people in the United States are saved and healed through organ and tissue donation.
Heart, kidneys, liver, lung, pancreas and small intestine are the organs which can be transplanted; bone, corneas, heart valves, veins, skin, tendons and ligaments are among the tissues.
Saying Yes to organ, eye and tissue donation saves lives. Every year, organ, eye and tissue transplants provide hope to tens of thousands of people suffering from disease, injury, trauma or blindness. In Colorado and Wyoming, around 1,500 people are on the waiting list for a lifesaving organ transplant. More than 100,000 are waiting nationwide. Thousands more patients could benefit from lifesaving and healing eye and tissue donations. Transplants offer patients a new chance at healthy and productive lives, returning them to their families, friends and communities. There continues to be a great need for more people to sign up to give the gift of life. Residents can sign up to become organ, eye and tissue donors by saying Yes when they obtain or renew a driver license or state ID, or anytime at www.DonateLifeColorado.org or www.DonateLifeWyoming.org.
If you registered in the National Donate Life Registry through DonateLife.net, RegisterMe.org, or the iPhone Health App, visit RegisterMe.org and click “Access Your Registration” to update your donor registration record.
If you registered through Colorado DMV or Wyoming Driver Services, you should have a heart symbol on your driver license. To update your registry status:
- Go to:
- Colorado residents : https://www.donatelifecolorado.org/
- Wyoming residents: https://www.donatelifewyoming.org/
- Scroll down to the Donor Information section.
- Select the option that applies to you:
- “Yes, I want to join the Donor Registry” (to update your registration), or
- “Change Status to Non-Registered” (to remove yourself from the registry).
- Complete the required form.
- Check the “I’m not a robot” box and click CONTINUE.
- Review the information, check the authorization box at the bottom of the page, and click COMPLETE REGISTRATION.
- Check your email inbox for a confirmation message confirming your request has been processed.