Donor Search Success Stories

During his 46 years as a high school basketball coach, Cliff Hawkins preached the importance of teamwork and working together to find success. Hawkins has touched countless lives with those lessons. And when he needed it most, one of those people came back around with a selfless sacrifice for him.

Voorhees University Head Men’s Basketball Coach James Williams knew he needed to take his health more seriously when he passed out during a team practice last year.

Megan Barrowclough donated a kidney to her childhood best friend Regina Bence at Mayo Clinic.

Almost 23 years after Jesus Amando Garcia’s first kidney transplant, Alexandro Munoz, his son in-law, stepped up to provide Garcia’s second transplant, honoring the memory of his own father, who died in 2019 from kidney failure.

Jill Hickey and Bruce Gamble struck up a friendship as Bruce traveled often through Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport and Jill worked in customer relations for Delta Air Lines. When Bruce needed a kidney, Jill stepped up and the two are now “family for life.”

Taking his Shlichus to an entirely new level, Rabbi Rafi Rosenberg, Shliach to Sky Lake, Florida, donated a kidney to a former IDF soldier who fought in the Yom Kippur War.

After seven and a half years of battling polycystic kidney disease, Whitefish Middle School teacher Sean Duff was donated a kidney by local parent Janelle Hansen.

The owner of a popular West Knoxville restaurant is recovering right now, a few months after receiving a kidney transplant.

For one Madison family, a living kidney donor could make a life-saving impact.

Shawn Moyer couldn’t have even predicted Elena Hershey would be his date a little more than a week before their prom 35 years ago, much less the person who would give him a kidney transplant.