National Donate Life Month
While the eye banking community celebrates National Eye Donor Month (NEDM) in March, the entire month of April is celebrated by organ, tissue and eye banks as National Donate Life Month. Formerly known as National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week, the week-long observance was expanded to a month-long event in 2003.

During National Donate Life Month, HLEB honors donors, donor families and cornea recipients at local events in collaboration with other organ procurement agencies. To see a listing of our eye banks' National Donate Life Month events, please visit our calendar section.

In honor of Donate Life Month, view the new PSAs from the Illinois Secretary of State promoting the organ and tissue donor registry below.