The following is the title of the program title which is linked to here: The SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL INTERVENTIONS TO INCREASE ORGAN AND TISSUE DONATION.
This is a much needed program. I have one major problem with it, though. They will allow money to go from methods to increase cadaver AKA deceased donor organ donation or for educating people on the transplant list about the option of live donor donation (like from a family member.) But no money can be used directly to increase actual live donor donations - only for education about it! Live donor donations are probably the main source of untapped organs available and government grant application rules won't allow researchers and innovators to work with the most promising mechanism to increase the supply of organs because of the potential risk to the live donor.
I think we need private donors or institutions to step in to fund programs that have the best probabilities of having the widest impacts and thereby save the most lives.
I don't claim to be a history buff, but I think polio epidemics in the developed world were all but eradicated by substantial private donations to the March of Dimes. It might be time for organ shortages to be addressed in a similar manner!
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