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Daily Iowan: Dragonfly Transplant Fund extends support to transplant patients and their families

1/28/2021

 
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Dragonfly Transplant Fund Gift Card Program Update

1/13/2021

 
PictureSarah King, Floor Manager at Bread Garden Market, and Ed Brown, Co-founder of the Dragonfly Transplant Fund, exchange gift cards as the new gift card program is launched at the UIHC Transplant Center.
As our volunteers with the Dragonfly Transplant Fund start fundraising in 2021, we are excited to announce that the new gift card program is finally underway! Ed Brown, co-founder of the Dragonfly Transplant Fund, has generously donated 550 $5 gift cards to Bread Garden Market to transplant patients and their families as they stay at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics' Transplant Center.

"Deb and I set up the Dragonfly Transplant Fund to give back to others," he explains. "She and I celebrated in small ways after her transplant. We left her room, I pushed her in her wheelchair, and we went to the hospital coffee shop." Now, Ed wants other families to be able to enjoy a cup of coffee, too.

Read more about the Dragonfly Transplant Fund's new gift card program in the UI Health Care publication of "The Loop" via the link below.

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In Memory of Deb Brown

5/12/2020

 
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To make your donation in memory of Deb Brown, co-founder of the Dragonfly Transplant Fund, please send your donation to the address below or click the link to be directed to our online giving platform through the University of Iowa Center for Advancement:
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Dragonfly Transplant Fund
In Memory of Deb Brown
260 33rd Ave SW, Ste M
Cedar Rapids, IA 52404
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Special Messages from the Dragonfly Transplant Fund

“In 2017, when Deb and I decided to establish the Dragonfly Transplant Fund, we had a lot of goals we wanted to accomplish. We wanted to give back, to thank the UIHC team, to promote organ transplant, and to thank our donor. One very important goal was to build something that would live on into the future. We found a niche that a transplant resource center and lounge at UIHC would serve our purpose. The fund has grown to lay the ground work for achieving our goals and will continue on in the years to come. With Deb’s passing this spring, the perpetual torch has been lit - the Dragonfly Transplant Fund will live on into the future! If nothing else, it has been fired up by the support we have received during this difficult time for our family, friends, and supporters. With focusing on helping the families and caregivers of transplant patients, the effect on the overall program will only improve from here. Deb is the matriarch and inspiration; she is the Dragonfly." 

- Ed Brown, Co Founder of the Dragonfly Transplant Fund
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"Deb and Ed started the Dragonfly Transplant Fund (DTF) to honor the gift they had been given and to offer back to those in the greater transplant community where they saw a glaring need – a vision of a place for caregivers to find a nurturing environment while their love ones were recovering from transplantation. Deb enjoyed several years of good health and spirit following her transplant and she and Ed were able to live life to its fullest following her recovery. Deb is no longer with us, and while we share deeply with Ed and his family in their loss, we also share in their commitment to Deb’s unwavering legacy and see the DTF through to its completed mission. Together, they were a force of nature. The UI Organ Transplant Center and the Center for Advancement are eager to help Ed and his close circle of support in this effort." 

- Dr. Alan Reed, Director of the UI Transplant Center & Alli Ingman, Assistant Vice President - Health Services Department of the University of Iowa Center for Advancement
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Why the University of Iowa Center for Advancement?

4/1/2020

 
The founders of the Dragonfly Transplant Fund, Deb and Ed Brown of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, love sharing the story of their experience with the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics’ Transplant Center and the Iowa Donor Network. ​
In early 2016, Deb was patiently awaiting a liver transplant that she and her family thought may never come. Her liver disease was affecting her everyday life to the point where emergency room trips seemed normal. Her health deteriorated at a rapid pace. 

In November 2016, Deb and her family received a call that a liver had become available for Deb to receive. After an 11-hour procedure at the UIHC Transplant Center, Deb had a new liver and a new life to live....and give. 

“We have a life together now,” says Ed Brown. “That’s not a gift...that’s more than a gift.” 

Deb and her husband, Ed, have ignited passion in others and established the Dragonfly Transplant Fund via a generous gift through the University of Iowa Center for Advancement. This gift is a testament of their appreciation of their doctors, their liver donor, and their donor’s family. The mission of their gift is to enhance the need for organ and tissue donor awareness. They hope with the support of community donors that they will be able to create a lounge in the hospital for caregivers of transplant patients to be together and learn about resources that are available to them and their families as they go through the organ transplant and organ donation process. 

“Donation, I don’t think, is [ever] going to go away,” says Ed Brown. “Transplant is never going to go away. Let’s put something there that everybody can feel good about.” 

Together with the support of the medical professionals at the UIHC Transplant Center, Deb and Ed are dedicated to serving patients and their caregivers through the Dragonfly Transplant Fund. If you would like to contribute to the Dragonfly Transplant Fund’s vision, please visit http://givetoiowa.org/dragonfly.

"A Boy of Many Gifts"

1/7/2020

 

Charles City youth wrestler gives gift of life through organ donation

CHARLES CITY - Logan Luft wanted to be a state championship wrestler. Tragically, that won't ever happen for Luft, but the 15-year-old Charles City native will be remembered forever as a champion of life.

After Organ Transplant, Couple Giving Thanks

2/17/2019

 

After organ transplant, couple giving thanks

IOWA CITY - With his wife's life hanging on the precision of a surgeon's blade and the luck of a stranger's liver, Ed Brown on Nov. 7, 2016, sat alone in a University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics waiting room.

GOLDrush: Dragonfly Transplant Fund

1/1/2019

 
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Gift of Life - University of Iowa Magazine

3/30/2018

 

Gift of Life - University of Iowa

A transplant patient helps support other families in need. PHOTO COURTESY ED AND DEB BROWN Less than two years ago, Deb Brown of Cedar Rapids was on death's doorstep. Patiently waiting for a liver transplant that might never come, Deb's health was quickly deteriorating.

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Phone: (319) 318-2376
Email: dragonflytransplantfund@gmail.com
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​260 33rd Ave SW, Ste M, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52404
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NOTE: The University of Iowa Center for Advancement is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization where tax-deductible contributions are identified via tax ID # 42-0796760. 
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