Reno Aces Host Donate Life Night

The Reno Aces turned Friday night’s game into a donor drive, using baseball to push organ, eye and tissue donor registration in Northern Nevada. (milb.com) The Triple-A club scheduled “Donate Life Night” for Friday, April 17, at Greater Nevada Field in partnership with Nevada Donor Network. Team promotions described it as a celebration of transplant recipients and donor families. (milb.com) Nevada Donor Network said the event landed during National Donate Life Month, the annual April campaign tied to donor awareness and registration. The group says nearly 700 Nevadans are currently waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant. (nvdonor.org) Nationally, the need is much larger. Donate Life America says more than 100,000 people are on the U.S. transplant waiting list, and another person is added about every eight minutes. (donatelife.net) Federal health officials track that waiting list through the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, the national system that matches donated organs with patients. The Health Resources and Services Administration says that network holds the country’s core data on donation, matching and transplants. (hrsa.gov) The Reno event fits a broader strategy in donation outreach: meet people where they already are, then ask them to register. Nevada Donor Network’s April campaign says the goal is to “end the wait” by moving more people from awareness to sign-up. (nvdonor.org) Donate Life America reported more than 24,000 donors and more than 48,000 transplants in 2024, but said the donor supply still falls short of demand. The group also says nearly 60% of patients on the national waiting list are from multicultural communities. (donatelife.net) For the Aces, that made a Friday promotion more than a theme night. It put a local crowd in front of a public-health message built around one decision: whether to register before someone else has to wait. (2news.com)