A kidney wanted ad on Craigslist. Image from Chaya Lipschutz
by George Taniwaki
Some of you may be familiar with the story of Chaya Lipschutz. In 2005, she donated her kidney to a stranger after reading an ad in the newspaper. Afterwards she started a free kidney matchmaker service. Among the ways she helps her clients find a donor is through the use of classified ads. Below is a typical Craigslist ad she ran for one of her clients.
Items to include in the ad
The key points that make this simple posting a winning ad are:
- A catchy headline
- Emphasis that donating a kidney may save a life
- Description of the problem (what your life as a patient is like)
- Statement that live donation is generally safe
- If the patient has O-blood type, request a matching donor (otherwise this isn’t important, unmatched blood type donors can enter a kidney exchange)
- Call to action (remember to take it one step at a time, you want the reader to commit to getting tested at the transplant center, do not ask to commit to the actual donation)
- A photo of the patient (in this case of the matchmaker) that is well-lit, in focus, and showing a sincere smile
Posting an ad on Craigslist
To post a classified ad seeking a kidney donor on Craigslist, follow these steps:
- Make sure you have an email address that works so that you can communicate with any responders to the ad
- Point your web browser to http://www.craigslist.org.
- If this is your first time at the site, you will need to select a city, state, country
- If this is your first time at the site, you will need to create an account, which will require an email address and a password (do not use the same password that you use to log into your email account) Verification of your account will be sent to your email address
- From the main page, select post to classifieds
- Under What type of posting is this, select community
- Under category, select volunteers
- Under choose the area nearest you, select your city (don’t worry about this, your ad will be visible to all users)
- On the classified ad form, under posting title, type in the catchy headline
- Under specific location, type in the city your transplant center is in
- Under reply to, type in your email address and select anonymize
- Under posting description, type in the details of your need
- No NOT select “ok for other to contact you…”
- DO select “OK to distribute this charitable volunteerism opportunity…”
- When everything looks ok, click Continue
- On the image upload page, click Browse… and select any images from your hard drive you want to include
- When you have finished, click Done with images
- On the confirmation page, check your ad. If it looks correct, click Publish (or Continue)
- You will receive an email, click on the link
- On the Terms of Use page, click Accept the terms of use
- Your post is now on Craigslist. If you need edit, delete, or update your listing, simply log into your account
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To learn more about Chaya Lipschutz and her effort to match kidney patients with potential donors, visit KidneyMitzvah.com. Ms. Lipschutz is very enthusiastic about helping patients and about recruiting kidney donors and it shows in the design of her website.
Thanks to Harvey Mysel of Living Kidney Donors Network for pointing out this classified ad to me. For more ideas on finding a donor, see my Kidney patient guide.
September 1, 2011 at 9:26 am
Have you heard of the Duke Health Kidney Paired Donation Program. They assists donor and recipient pairs who are incompatible or poorly matched in finding another donor and recipient pair with whom they can exchange kidneys to enable better matching, allowing a transplant to take place.
http://www.dukehealth.org/services/transplants/programs/kidney_and_pancreas/kidney-paired-donation-program
October 2, 2011 at 8:07 am
For those interested, Duke is a member of the Johns Hopkins regional kidney exchange. It will soon become a participant in the UNOS national exchange and will perform in-house exchanges as well.
January 9, 2012 at 6:17 am
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May 11, 2012 at 12:41 pm
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September 26, 2011 at 6:23 pm
Ruthie Levi a moderator for the listserv reports that as a result of an e-mail posting on this list for someone seeking a kidney donation Rabbi Ephraim Simon of Chabad Teaneck has successfully donated his own kidney. . It s not like I woke up one morning and wanted to donate a kidney said Simon who serves as the Chabad rabbi in Teaneck. My own children ages 2 to 14 are my first priority. He recounted how a woman named Chaya Lipshutz had been posting for years on TeaneckShuls about people who needed kidney donors.
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November 5, 2012 at 9:33 pm
Hello commenters:
I removed your contact information from all solicitations to buy or offers to sell human organs. Please note that it is illegal in the U.S. and in most other countries to buy or sell organs for transplant. If you are interested in becoming a nondirected living kidney donor, please contact the nearest transplant center in your region. A list is available at http://www.kidneytransplantcenters.org/.
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August 30, 2013 at 5:03 pm
The trafficking of human organs for transplant is illegal in nearly every country. Patients should not respond to offers to sell an organ and potential donors should not respond to offers to purchase an organ.
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