Name the Organ!
Pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood through your body every single day
Heart
What does SODA stand for?
Student Organ Donation Advocates
What does NEDS stand for?
New England Donor Services
One organ donor can save this many lives
8
This person received a life-saving kidney transplant from her close friend and actress Francia Raisa
Selena Gomez
A pair that filters roughly 200 quarts of blood a day to make urine
Kidneys
SODA was founded in this year, at Washington University in St. Louis
2014
What does OPO stand for?
Organ Procurement Organization
About this many people die each day in the U.S. waiting for a transplant (within 2)
12
This type of transplant involves one donor's organ enabling a chain of transplants
A domino transplant
A living donor can give away part of this, and it will regrow to nearly full size in about 4 months.
Liver
SODA now has more than this many chapters on high school, college, and grad school campuses nationwide (within 20).
150
What does UNOS stand for?
United Network for Organ Sharing
Every this many minutes, another person is added to the national transplant waiting list (within 2 min)
7 minutes
This is the average time a donated heart stays viable for transplant outside the body (2-hour range)
4-6 hours
More than 85,000 of these were transplanted recently to restore sight
Cornea
SODA has educated more than this many students about organ, eye, and tissue donation (within 20,000).
411,000 students
What does DBD stand for?
Donation after Brain Death.
More than this many people are currently waiting for a transplant in the U.S. (within 5,000)
103,000 people
Scientists have experimented with transplanting organs from this animal into humans because of similarities in organ size and function
Pigs
This tissue makes up about 60% of your body weight, can be donated after death
Skin
This many students have registered as organ, eye, and tissue donors through SODA's work (within 2,000).
20,428 students
What does OPTN stand for?
Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network
More than this many organ transplants were performed in the U.S. in 2025 (within 2,000)
About 49,000 transplants
This medical term comes from the Greek words meaning “another” and “species” and describes a transplant between two different species.
Xenotransplantation