August is Minority Donor Awareness Month, an opportunity to celebrate the successes of the last three decades and reflect on some of the challenges. National Minority Donor Awareness month began in 1996 as National Minority Donor Awareness Week, a program started by the Minority Organ Tissue Transplant Education Program (MOTTEP) to bring attention to the disproportionate rates of organ failure and the need for increased donation from the minority community.

Each August, we aim to highlight the importance of registering to be an organ donor and honor donors and the candidates waiting for lifesaving organ and tissue transplants — particularly in the minority community.

One of the most impactful efforts to improve minority donor registrations was started by transplant surgeon, Dr. Clive Cal

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