Retired Brant Community Healthcare System (BCHS) nurse manager and RNAO member Barbara Longo received a Hospital Donation Champion Award from the Trillium Gift of Life Network. The award is given to health-care professionals who are exceptional advocates for organ and tissue donation. Longo’s passion for organ donation and transplantation comes from her own family’s experience. Her mother-in-law is a kidney donor recipient and Longo became a living kidney donor for her husband. She says that being an RN helped her start conversations about organ donation that people may not otherwise have with their families. Longo says that organ donation is a true team effort. “Everyone understands what to do and believes in the importance of the donation and transplant program. It’s embedded in their practice,” she says of colleagues at BCHS. “I am fortunate to have worked in a profession and with an organization that can make a difference every day in the lives of patients and their families, and for the patients and families we will never meet.”