According to BusinessWeek in “Meet Your Organ Match Online,” about 88,000 people in the U.S. are waiting for living organs and expecting a transplant. But more than 60,000 patients will die before a liver or a kidney becomes available.

Enter MatchingDonors.com, a non-profit corporation run by volunteers who take no salaries. If you’re a potential donor, you tell them that you’re ready to give an organ (not sell, it’s illegal!). If you’re a patient, you register for $295 per month — 100% of the money paid for patient memberships is applied to running the site. Then you have access to the full list of potential donors — 2,026 today — and you look for what you need.

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