1. Platinum Recipient Grand Lake Health System

2. Establish a Donate Life Think Tank 3 employees and a senior leader to be part of this team Community Outreach Coordinator-she is already established in the community Marketing Administrative Assistant-she was already aware of all of the PR avenues that GLHS had in place –Facebook Administrative Assistant-she was able to make everything look professional Energetic speaker Marketing Executive Director

3. Connect to Donate Life Ohio Become connected to the www.ohadonatelife.org www.ohadonatelife.org –Lots of tools to use –Letters; press releases etc.

4. Impactful Kick-off Plan an impactful Kick-off –Endorsed by CEO letter to all employees –Newspaper coverage –Engagement of a LCO Ambassador GLHS was fortunate to have a staff member whose husband had received a liver 2 years ago and is a trained LCO Ambassador –The wife many times accompanied him to share her journey. She is very dynamic and emotionally engaged in promotion of Donate life

5. Develop registration opportunities within your organization –Registration booth outside of the cafeteria once a month Provide the Brochure, LCO pen and demonstrate the ease of filling out the application –Pre-addressed envelops that they had the option to mail in or for us to mail it in If the individual is already a registered donor, we had a miniature Green Chair for them to sign and we posted them on the bulletin board outside of the cafeteria. We also had a poster displayed in each department of these registered donors.

6. Identify presentation opportunities Hospital Board Hospital Leadership Physician meetings Hospital sponsored support groups (Diabetic, Stroke, Parkinson) Hospital sponsored Health Fair

7. Community Organizations County Trustees/Clerks meeting Public Retirement Organization Ohio Division of Parks –Area State Parks –Fish Hatchery Civic organizations City Police/Fire/EMT meetings Motorcycle Clubs

8. Community Organizations Read your local newspapers for articles about community organizations –Kiwanis –Optimist –Rotary –Council on Aging

9. Area Schools Provided contact information and established presentation engagements Driver’s Education presentations Rhodes State College Medical Assistants program; considering Donate Life as part of the Ethics curriculum Presented to the American Association of Medical Assistants

10. Area Manufacturing Plants Occupational Health contacts Payroll stuffers Posters for the break room 550 exposures

11. Radio/Newspaper Local radio stations Newspaper articles of presentations to various community organizations Become “news-worthy” with your activities

12. Be A Hero Think outside the box. Do not be shy Engage individuals who have benefitted from a tissue/eye or organ donation