How You Can Help

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Stride for Sight Run/Walk

Since 2017, partnering community non-profit organizations: Lions Sight Research Foundation and San Antonio Eye Bank, have collaborated to host the Stride for Sight 5K in San Antonio, Texas. Together the organizations are focused on Saving Sight, Changing Lives.

• Please visit the upcoming events section of our website to learn about the annual event.

National Donate Life Month

Celebrated in April each year, NDLM features an entire month of local, regional and national activities to help encourage individuals to register as organ, eye and tissue donors on their state donor registry.

• Distribute San Antonio Eye Bank's Donate Life brochures in your company's break room, home owner's association gatherings, church choir rehearsals, etc. Contact us to receive brochures, free of charge
• Visit our Facebook page to learn about events hosted during the month as well as to share videos and photos posted to highlight donation and transplantation

National Minority Donor Awareness Month

The observance was formerly known as National Minority Donor Awareness Day. Donate Life America announced that starting in 2020, the observance will focus on engaging multicultural communities during the entire month. 

• Please re-visit our website later in the year for suggested ideas on how to spread the Gift of Sight, Donate Life message for this observance.

National Eye Donation Month

Since it was proclaimed by President Ronald Regan in 1983, eye banks across the country have used the the month as an opportunity to educate the public on the importance of registering to be a donor, educating and inspiring the community on cornea donation and transplantation and acknowledge the

important work of eye banks across the globe.

• On each Friday of the month, wear a Donate Life                themed button. Share information about donation to anyone who asks you about your button, you’ll be surprised how many conversations the button will spark.

National Donor Sabbath & Bridging Lives, Dia de los Muertos

National Donor Sabbath is three day observance that occurs during the month of November. The observance seeks to include houses of worship for major religions practiced in the U.S., in order for congregations to come together to learn about and celebrate donation and transplantation, and pray for those affected by it.

• Host a Donate Life awareness table at your house of worship or prayer breakfast.

Bridging Lives, Dia de los Muertos Donor families are invited to decorate a Bridging Lives Altar with photos and mementos at a community event in San Antonio as a part of Dia de los Muertos.

Dia de los Muertos/Day of the Dead celebrates death as part of the human experience and honors the lives of the deceased with festivals and lively celebrations. For more information on decorating the Bridging Lives Altar, please call or email us.

Donate Life Rose Parade Float

Host a New Year's Day celebration party and view the Donate Life Float during the nationally broadcasted Pasadena Rose Parade

• Purchase a rose in honor of a loved one or friend in the Rose Dedication Program that will be place on the float.