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Drive for Five is a passionate advocate for better policies, state and federal, encouraging more Americans to share their spare and save a life. Current laws are antiquated. The folks pictured descended on Congress to educate Congress to the sensibility of the End Kidney Deaths Act. DFF salutes them!#shareyourspare #savealife #lesskidneydisease ... See MoreSee Less

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Your 66-year-old scribe’s roots are deeply embedded in athletics. Long ago, a full scholarship to Mizzou to play football and baseball followed by a long and fulfilling career as a television and ra...

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From a coffee shop on the south side of Denver, a message from a moment. Have a good weekend and may your favorite football team win!#goodbetterbest #NEVERLETITRESTwww.linkedin.com/pulse/fridays-mac-dashingly-good-drive-for-five-ujnvc ... See MoreSee Less

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The power of the media. It can be good and bad. Here's an example of the good. Reaction continues to pour in from 9NEWS (KUSA)'s documentation of your scribe's kidney transplant three months ago today. Jennifer Meckles and photog/editor Foster Gaines did a wonderful job with the storytelling. Lots of people watch 9News. Here's a heartwarming email received recently from a viewer:"My wife and I have been following your journey to receive a kidney transplant, and we were so happy to see the story. My wife was diagnosed with end stage renal failure almost 2 years ago, and shortly after we started the process to beat the bushes to find her a donor. We held a softball tournament last fall to raise awareness and funds for her treatment, and by the grace of God one of the players stepped forward to test, and recently was cleared to be her donor! Her transplant will happen most likely early next year!We plan on hosting our tournament again this year on Saturday, October 12th. We want to make this an annual event to continue to raise awareness and convince people to “share their spare.” I wanted to ask if you’d be interested in stopping by, sharing your story and talk about Drive for Five moving forward. As we watched the piece on your transplant, it made us very emotional and hopeful that my wife will soon experience the joy you and your wife did on that wonderful day. Thank you for sharing your story so that people like us can realize that there is hope and that it only takes one person to be willing to “share their spare!”Wow, thanks for sharing Tony Gautier.Wanna learn more about sharing your spare? Join us next Wednesday night at Maggiano's Little Italy in Englewood. Thanks to the National Kidney Foundation, free food and information:shorturl.at/plTjA#shareyourspare #savealife #lesskidneydisease ... See MoreSee Less

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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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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.