Logo for: National Kidney Registry

Facilitating Well-Matched Living Kidney Donor Transplants. Protecting and Supporting Living Donors.

The National Kidney Registry is dedicated to increasing the number of kidney transplants from living donors, improving donor-recipient matches for longer-lasting transplants, and offering protection and support to living kidney donors to make the kidney donation process safer, easier and more convenient.

8,000 NKR-Facilitated Transplants

Kidney Donor Blog

Information for Donors

How Do I Donate a Kidney?

Michael Lollo, NKR Chief Strategy Officer

If you are reading this, you may be considering becoming a living kidney donor. Thank you! Just by looking into it, you’re already doing so much more than many others would do. There are so many people in need of a transplant, and so few people who become living donors: More than 90,000 people in

Continue Reading

Kidney Donor Stories

Advocating for Better Protections for Living Organ Donors

Senator John Albers

Since 2020, Georgia Senator John Albers has been dedicated to the cause of living kidney donation. Working with the American Kidney Foundation, he helped pass the Giving the Gift of Life Act in Georgia, which prohibits life insurers from discriminating against living organ donors by denying or canceling coverage and provides tax credits up to

Continue Reading