Welcome to Team Pittsburgh's Website

New Announcements:

• Games Announcements:
   
  • Updated 8/26/08: Photos from the 2008 US Games are available for viewing in the Photo Gallery! Make sure to send all of your photos from the Games to teampittsburgh@teampittsburgh.org so they can be posted to the website!
     
  • Check for the latest photos and results from the 2008 U.S. Transplant Games.
     
  • Download the NKF's new online version of Transplant Chronicles. This issue contains hyperlinks that you can click on with your computer mouse to take you to supportive and educational Web sites or to continuations of articles. Download the Spring 2008 Transplant Chronicles.
     
    
     
• Team announcements:
   
  • Help the NKF of the Alleghenies win a BMW! The Sewickley Car Store will award a new BMW to be used for fundraising purposes to one of the four selected charities who gets the most votes. Help make the National Kidney Foundation be that charity! How do I help??
    • Go to the Sewickley Car Store website:  http://www.drivesewickley.com
    • And vote before the deadline on August 30th, 2008 at 6:00 PM
    • By entering you have a chance to win a V.I.P Country Music Awards Trip for 2 which includes two tickets to the 2009 Country Music Awards in Nashville, Tennessee, and 2-Nights Hotel and Airfare.

   

  • Let TEAM Pittsburgh Help Plan your Vacation!
    • Team Pittsburgh "RCI Time Share" (Value $1250) donated by: Beth Elinoff, RN, MPH, CCRC
    • One Ticket gets Four chances to win!!
      • One (1) week stay at a facility of your choice
      • Visit www.rci.com to see some of the locations available.
      • Winning ticket will be the PA Lottery's "Big 4" (straight) number drawn on Labor Day, September 1, 2008.
      • $5.00 donation per ticket
      • Prize, value and exclusions, etc
        • One-week stay must be completed by October 31, 2009.
        • Can be used at RCI Time Share of your choice in the US, Mexico or Internationally.
        • Can be exchanged for any timeshare in the RCI system based upon availability.
        • Includes ER exchange and guest certificate.
        • If choosing an international exchange, the winner is subject to and responsible for a $50.00 international fee.
        •  Any additional fee charged by the resort are the responsibility of the winner, (i.e., housekeeping, deposit, all-inclusive fee, etc.)
        • Does not include airfare or any other transportation.

    • Maggie still has 85 packages of tickets for the raffle – please contact her to get a packet. We really need your help in selling them ALL. Contact her at 412-261-4116.
      
       

• View Photos from the Donor Appreciation Dinner and the 2007 Team Pittsburgh Fashion Show. View them here!
• The photos from the Bowling Fundraiser at the Pittsburgh Athletic Association have been posted! View them here!
• For all of the Team's 2006 History and Photos please visit the 2006 History Page!

There are plenty of Sarris Candy bars available in Shelley's office in C900. Do you know of a location willing to display a case of Team Pittsburgh labeled Sarris Candy bars? This is a big fundraiser for the Team. Milk chocolate, peanut butter, crisp, almond, and pretzel rods are available for only $ 1.00 each.

Who is Team Pittsburgh?

We are the transplant recipient athletes, donor family members, living donors, families, friends, health care professionals, and spectators from Western Pennsylvania & Northern West Virginia communities who will proudly represent this region at the 2008 U.S. Transplant Games.

We may be your family member, friend, neighbor, or co-worker.  We have survived a life-threatening illness or tragedy with high hopes to help others by raising national awareness of both the successes of transplantation and the desperate need for life-saving organ donors through our participation in the upcoming U.S. Transplant Games.  We are committed to this cause in order to help those who await their “gift of life”.  

What are "The Games?"

The U.S. Transplant Games is a four-day athletic competition among recipients of all organ and bone marrow transplants held every two years at sites all over the continental U.S.  The Games consist of 12 sports and 41 events.

As much as this very special event is an athletic competition that calls attention to the success of organ and bone marrow transplantation, it is also an incredible celebration of life among recipients, their families and friends.  Transplant recipients who do not physically qualify to compete are encouraged to join the local team and attend the Games as spectators so they can be a part of this gathering of recipients.  

The purposes of the U.S. Transplant Games are:

• To demonstrate to our nation’s public the collective and individual successes of the life-restoring therapy of organ and bone marrow transplantation
• To use the mass media to promote the success of organ donation and transplantation and to call attention to the dire need for organ donation through events and support activities before, during, and after the event
• To contribute to the successful rehabilitation of our nation's transplant patient community

To involve the entire transplant community--including it’s physicians, health care professionals, patients, donor families and related organizations--in a worldwide collaborative effort for the benefit of organ donation awareness