If you’re waiting for a kidney
You don’t have to ask. Your page does the asking.
Tell your story once, the way you’d tell a friend. Your page invites the people who read it to find out, privately, if they could be a donor. You share one link, or someone close to you shares it for you.
The arithmetic, honestly
These are the numbers your transplant team is working with. Every one of them links back to its source.
- 3–5 years
- typical wait for a deceased-donor kidney
- Longer in some parts of the country. A living donor replaces that wait with a scheduled date.
- National Kidney Foundation
- 6,521
- kidney transplants from living donors in 2025
- Out of 27,573 kidney transplants performed nationwide over the year.
- UNOS
- 92,000+
- people waiting for a kidney
- The list is not a queue you can move up by waiting. Finding a living donor is the one lever you control.
- American Kidney Fund
What actually moves the needle
Six things that separate pages that find a donor from pages that get read once and forgotten.
Tell it in your own voice
The stories that work are not polished. They are specific: what a Tuesday looks like, what you would do first afterwards, who else is waiting alongside you. Detail is what makes a stranger see a person.
Put your face on it
A page with a headshot is the one that gets shared, because it is the image that shows up in someone's feed. A page without one barely travels at all.
Ask for the small thing, not the big one
Almost nobody can say yes to “give me a kidney”. Most people can say yes to “find out whether you could”. Make that the ask, and say plainly that stopping at any point is normal.
Let other people carry it
The person who ends up being your match is often two or three shares away — a friend of a colleague, someone from church, a cousin's neighbour. Your first-degree network is the distribution, not the audience.
Post updates, even small ones
Every update is a fresh reason for your circle to share the page again. A page that goes quiet after week one reaches whoever saw it that week and nobody else.
Go offline too
Print the QR code. Church bulletins, community noticeboards, the back of a business card, a poster at a fundraiser. Scanned traffic is tracked separately so you can see what worked.
Asking on someone else's behalf? Read how to ask someone to donate a kidney — five scripts, and four things that feel right and backfire.
You do not have to start from a blank page
When you write your page, an assistant asks you a few questions about your life and writes the first draft from your answers. You edit every word of it, and nothing is published until you say so. Here is the same thing, running now, on a person we made up.
See how the writing works
Sam is made up to show how this works. Nothing you type here is saved.
Sam is a composite — a person we invented out of several ordinary situations, not anyone real, and not a patient. Answer as Sam, however you like; the assistant works from whatever you give it.
Before we get to anything medical — what do you spend your time on? Work, family, anything you're known for.
Talk to someone on the other side of it
The most useful conversation you can have right now is probably with somebody who has already been through this — who has written the awkward first post, told their boss, waited, and come out the other end with a transplant.
Leave your details and we will connect you with a recipient who has volunteered to talk to people at the beginning of it.
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