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Drive for Five Network

Share your spare, Save a life, Leave a priceless Legacy
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Inspire

Recruit 5,000 live organ donors for kidney, liver and bone marrow recipients

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Advocate

Advocate for innovative legislative policy at the state and federal levels encouraging more live organ donations

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Educate

Help an equal number of Americans avoid falling into kidney disease

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  • Recruit 5,000 live organ donors for kidney, liver and bone marrow recipients
  • Advocate for innovative legislative policy at the state and federal levels encouraging more live organ donations
  • Help an equal number of Americans avoid falling into kidney disease
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Who Are we?


Drive for Five Network

The Drive for Five Network was inspired by friends of Mark McIntosh challenging the former Denver TV sportscaster, motivational speaker/author and community advocate to use his professional communication skills and large social media presence to raise awareness to America's growing kidney crisis.

The DFF Network of ambassadors creates educational and inspirational content and has three main objectives with this public awareness campaign:

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Mark McIntosh AND Randy Weber

what's the news?


Our Story in the Media

The Drive for Five Network has received much appreciated reporting from several media outlets willing to raise awareness to the mission of inspiring more live organ donations, advocate for better state and national policies encouraging more participation and educating Americans about its growing kidney crisis. Here are a few examples.

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2 days ago

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Friday night when the Rockies host the Cincinnati Red it's the first annual "Living Donor Awareness Game" at Coors Field. Join us and learn more about live organ donation and the wonderful benefits of sharing your spare and saving another's life. As Drive for Five ambassador Crissy Perham likes to say, "It's better than gold and silver." She would know after winning two golds and a silver in the butterfly at the '92 Barcelona Games.Even better? A few years back, she shared her spare and saved the life of Richard Franklin, fellow Olympian swimmer Missy Franklin's father.Hope to see you at the ballpark Friday night!#shareyourspare #savealife #lesskidneydisease ... See MoreSee Less
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7 days ago

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One of the favorite gifts received from a recent birthday? Fantastic bride gave me at sweatshirt that reads: "I'm a writer. What you say and do can be used in a future story." It's true. Some fella traveling to Ohio is the latest example.www.linkedin.com/pulse/drive-five-manifesting-milestones-mark-mcintosh-keede ... See MoreSee Less
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1 week ago

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Relationships. A real key to life. The reason it's brought up? Many years of hanging around the CU Buffs athletic program? You meet a lot of Buff zealots. Love to talk Buff stuff with them.One of them received a kidney yesterday. Someone shared their spare and saved this great dude's life from end-stage renal disease. Recipient and donor doing well. The heart skips a bit knowing the feeling of being on the "other side" with a new lease on life. Here's to continued recovery and wellness for an angel in my buddy's midst and a prayer his body and her kidney get along just fine.That's certainly been the case for me and Cathie Hitchcock's spare. I pray it's the same for him. Bravo to the donor. America needs more folks like you. The transplants lists grow way faster than available donors. "Drive for Five"'s trying to change that. Interested in exploring sharing your spare and saving another's life. Here ya go: shorturl.at/iURw7 ... See MoreSee Less
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Inspire


The Drive for Five Network was birthed in Mark McIntosh’s weekly men’s fellowship group. When the bunch learned one of their members needed a kidney transplant, the fellas challenged McIntosh. “Given your communications skills and social media following? Go find 5,000!” The challenge was accepted.

The Missouri native and other DFF Network correspondents create content - writing and videos - designed to inspire Americans to “Share their spare, safe a life, leave a priceless legacy.” As managing editor of DFF, McIntosh writes a weekly column published Mondays extolling the need and benefits to live organ donation. America has a growing kidney crisis with far more citizens in need of organ transplants and dying while waiting on lists.

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Advocate


The Drive For Five Network is actively involved in advocacy to develop and pass smart legislative policies at the state and federal levels encouraging greater participation in live organ donation. There’s 90,000 Americans on waits lists but only about 27,000 deceased and live organ donors annually. And it’s getting worse. The DFF Network strongly advocates for modifying NOTA.

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EDUCATE


As mentioned before, America’s in the throes of an ever-increasing kidney crisis. Type 2 diabetes has TRIPLED since the turn of the century. Diabetes, high blood pressure and excessive weight? They are kidney killers. Communities of color are disproportionally effected. For example, Blacks are SIX times more likely to suffer high blood pressure than Whites. Three times more likely to suffer kidney disease. The Brown community is also more vulnerable.

The DFF Network is dedicated to working with leaders of communities of color and educating the masses on wellness and lifestyle choices to keep diabetes, high blood pressure and excessive weight gain at bay. Today, 550,000 Americans are on dialysis but the number is expected to reach 1,000,000 in the next six years. Our nation is out of shape and the cost in lives and livelihoods are devastating unless you play the market and invest in the renal care industry. Unfortunately, it’s good and getter better.

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