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Impact The Palm Beaches To Host Ninth Annual

Impact Awards Celebration On April 17

At Least Three $100,000 LaFrance, president of $100,000 grants. The full amount of membership is tax-
deductible.
Impact the Palm Beaches
Grants Will Be Awarded To for the years 2023 and culture; education; environment and animal welfare; health
Impact grants fund the following service areas: arts and
2024. “With her passion
Local Nonprofits for our community, and wellness; and family.
inspiring ener gy, Admission to the Ninth Annual Impact Awards
Impact the Palm Beaches will host its Ninth Annual and highly respected Celebration is complimentary for Impact the Palm Beaches
Impact Awards Celebration on Wednesday, April 17 at professionalism, she members and $80 for guests. For more information or to
5:30 p.m. at the Cohen Pavilion, Kravis Center in West is the perfect person to R.S.V.P., please visit www.impactpalmbeaches.org/events.
Palm Beach. Impact the Palm Beaches is a philanthropic emcee our most important For more information about Impact the Palm
organization where women collectively give to nonprofits event of the year.” Beaches, events, and how to become a member,
in Central and Northern Palm Beach County to ignite The finalists selected Hollani Davis visit Impactpalmbeaches.org or email info@
transformational change. to compete for the impactpalmbeaches.org.
This special event will award at least three high-impact $100,000 2024 impact grants were announced on March Impact 100 is a worldwide organization with more than 70
$100,000 grants to nonprofit organizations located in Palm 21 at a special event underwritten by FPL and hosted at chapters and steadily growing. Their motto is “One Woman,
Beach County. During this exciting evening, finalists will Manatee Lagoon. Over the past eight years, Impact the One Meeting, One Vote.” It is designed for women who
present their requests for funding to the members of Impact Palm Beaches has given away more than $1.5 million in wish to find an efficient and collaborative means of creating
the Palm Beaches, followed by a vote and distribution of transformative grants to nonprofits in our community. transformational change in their community. Women can
awards to the selected organizations. Impact members contribute $1,100 annually, which become as involved as they want to in the process.
Members and guests attending the awards celebration includes a $100 administrative fee, and each member’s The Town of Palm Beach United Way is the fiscal agent
will enjoy cocktails and light bites while mingling with the $1,000 donation is pooled together to fund multiple of Impact the Palm Beaches.
finalists before the presentations begin. The emcee of the
event will be multi-Emmy winner, Hollani Davis, TV anchor
of Today on 5 on WPTV 5 from 5 to 7 a.m. During her 20- Tampa General Hospital Leads In
year journalism career, Hollani has garnered several awards,
including the prestigious “Anchor” award from the Florida
Association of Broadcast Journalists in 2022. A devoted Living-Donor Liver Transplants In
wife and mother, Hollani also spends a good portion of her
time emceeing different community events and mentoring
youth. She’s also advocated for Black maternal health and Florida
for families with premature babies.
“We are thrilled to announce that Hollani has agreed Tampa General Hospital (TGH) is leading the way in • Hospitals schedule
to be the emcee for our upcoming event,” said Lisa living-donor liver transplants in the state of Florida. In transplants based on the
2023, the academic health system performed five lifesaving recipient’s and donor’s
Friendly Reminder living-donor liver transplants, the most of any hospital in availability.

Research shows
the Sunshine State.
•
The first occurred in May 2023, when Derek Sanz gave
Before you go north for the summer his mother, Patty, the ultimate Mother’s Day gift — half of that recipients of living-
donor organs have better
please remove all perishable food from your his liver. After nearly a year, mother and son are healthy and outcomes.
refrigerator and store all patio furniture or grateful that the TGH Transplant Institute offers a living- TGH is a top five
other home landscape accessories that could donor option. Without it, Patty might have waited anywhere transplant center by volume
from 30 days to five years for a deceased donor’s organ.
in the United States and is
become dangerous projectiles during high Livers are the second-most in-demand organ for transplants ranked one of the nation’s
winds. (behind kidneys). About 10 percent of individuals on the best hospitals by U.S.
national transplant waiting list are waiting for a liver. News & World Report in
Receiving a donation from a living donor shortens a 2023/24. The living-donor
patient’s wait time and lessens chances that the liver’s condition liver transplant program
will worsen. “Living-donor liver transplant is another avenue to “is a prime example of Tampa General continuing to drive
save the lives of patients with liver disease in our community,” innovation to deliver world-class health care,” said TGH
said Dr. Kiran Dhanireddy, vice president and chief of the TGH President and CEO John Couris. “This program opens up
Transplant Institute and surgical director of the Comprehensive additional access to patients in need of a liver transplant,
Liver Disease & Transplant Center. and has the potential to transform the lives of patients and

John Deloach volunteers a portion of their liver to someone whose liver their families in the Tampa Bay region, Florida and across
With a living-donor transplantation, a healthy person
the United States.”
Experienced Driver is failing from end-stage disease or cancer. After doctors experiences to encourage others to consider a living-donor
Both Patty and Derek Sanz have shared their
remove the donated portion, the donor’s remaining liver
For your errands and airport transportation regrows close to its full size and capacity in a couple of liver transplant if they have a family member in need. “It
Ride in my Lincoln months. The transplanted liver also grows, restoring normal worked for us and that’s why we want to get the word out
Continental liver function to the recipient. there so that more people can be saved,” said Patty.

The benefits of live-donor transplantation include:
For more information about the TGH Transplant
References available • Transplants take place quicker when a living donor is Institute, please call (561) 739-4TGH.
upon request available.
Please call (561) 310-1063 Paid Advertisement

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