Jennifer Prinz
Donor Alliance
2018 Baldrige Award Recipient
Donor Alliance is a nonprofit organization based in Colorado that earned the Baldrige Award in 2018. Serving Colorado and most of Wyoming as one of 57 independent Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) designated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Donor Alliance is dedicated to a mission of saving people’s lives through organ and tissue donation and transplantation. To achieve this, Donor Alliance employs an effective family-focused approach and recovery programs in more than 100 hospitals.
In 2019 and 2020, Donor Alliance achieved record highs in the number of lives saved through its work. For several years, the organization has been consistently been ranked as one of the top 10 OPOs in the nation due to its high rate (more than 80%) of converting donations into transplanted organs and tissues.