Give Life: The Transplant Journey was made possible by a grant
from the Health Resources Services Administration's Division of Transplantation (DoT), under a three-year program seeking ways to increase donation. The grant program is part of the National Organ and Tissue Donation Initiative launched in 1997 by Vice President Al Gore and Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala.

The Journey is part of a three-year project "Measuring the
Effectiveness of a Multimedia Internet-Based Approach to
Increasing Donor Registry Participation." It grew from an earlier Journey created in 1997. Also part of the National Initiative, it explained the transplant process and was supported by a DoT seed grant. Funding for the current project was announced by Vice President Gore in September 1999 (HHS press release,
photos/audio). We are grateful to the DoT for this opportunity to create a new intervention and especially thank Lynn Rothberg Wegman, Director of the Division of Transplantation, and Mary Ganikos, PhD, Chief of Public and Professional Education, for their support and encouragement.