Boston realtor assoc. honors Canton’s Joel Pratt
By Canton CitizenOn Tuesday, June 18, Joel Pratt of JL Pratt Realtors in Canton was presented with the “Good Neighbor Award” from the Greater Boston Association of Realtors (GBAR) at a ceremony at the Museum of Science in Boston.
Joel Pratt accepts a donation to MatchingDonors.com
The award is given annually to a GBAR member who demonstrates active volunteer involvement, charitable acts, and business success.
This year’s award was presented to Pratt along with a donation to MatchingDonors.com in the amount of $2,500 for his lifesaving efforts and for raising funds and donating his time as director of business development for the Canton-based nonprofit.
Every day in the United States, 19 people die waiting seven to 15 years on the government’s national organ transplant waiting list for a deceased organ transplant that will most likely never come, while an additional 253 people die every day needing an organ transplant that were not allowed on the government’s list because they were too poor, too old, or too sick to be considered a “good candidate” for a transplant. A new patient’s name is added to this national organ transplant waiting list every 13 minutes. The team at MatchingDonors.com is working hard to make sure that doesn’t happen anymore.
Over the past nine years, with the assistance of Pratt, MatchingDonors.com has become the largest and most successful nonprofit organization in the world that is improving those odds by finding living altruistic organ donors for patients needing transplants. Most patients find their living altruistic donor organ and get their lifesaving transplant within six months of joining MatchingDonors.com.
MatchingDonors.com is not an invitee-only list; everyone needing an organ transplant is allowed on our list regardless if they are poor, old or sick. As long as a patient has a transplant hospital in the United States that is willing to perform the operation, everyone is considered a good candidate for a transplant with MatchingDonors.com.
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on Jun 27 2013. Filed under Business.
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