Donate Life California to give shoppers an opportunity to register as organ, eye and tissue donors throughout April for National Organ Donation Month. There are more than 100,000 people currently waiting for a lifesaving transplant, and more than 22,000 of them live in California. “California still lags behind the national average of organ donors, and our goal is to close that gap,” Jim Martin, CEO, Donate Life California said in a statement. “We are grateful to partner with Goodwill of Orange County, a respected organization that has given us access to a whole new way to register donors.” According to Martin, transplants were halted during the beginning months of the coronavirus pandemic with hospitals anticipating an increased demand for their ICU and emergency beds. There was also concern over the spread of the virus between donor and recipient. However, organ procurement organizations immediately began testing every potential donor to ensure no transmission, and the state was able to increase the number of transplants from 4,412 in 2019 to 4,531 in 2020.