- Advocacy, Recipients
Stephen Grace: Funeral Director, Heart Transplant Recipient, and Advocate for Donor Families
As a funeral director, Stephen Grace considers it an honor to care for donor families at Cumby Family Funeral Service in High Point and Archdale, North Carolina. As a heart transplant recipient who is alive today…
- Community
As 2025 winds down, so does HonorBridge’s year-long celebration of its 40th anniversary. While 40 years might not sound like much in the grand scheme of things, in the world of organ and tissue donation, four decades of…
- Community, News Stories
At a recent Town Hall Meeting, Danielle Bumarch, our President and CEO, shared the news that she will retire in June 2026. The emotional announcement brought many to tears, a testament to the incredible impact she has had…
- Advocacy, Community
At just 17 years old, Aiden is a healthy young man who has never needed an organ or tissue transplant, but that hasn’t stopped him from becoming an advocate for donation. The son of HonorBridge COO Kim Koontz and an…
- Donor Families, Recipients
Like many North Carolinians, Delores Evans struggled with kidney disease for over 30 years. Her son, Ryan Benton Evans, even stepped forward to undergo testing to become her living donor, only to be disqualified due to a…
- Hospital Partners
For Dr. Andrew Barbas, transplant surgery is where his love for problem-solving, cutting-edge medicine, and making a real difference in people’s lives all come together. “I started out in engineering at Duke,” he…
- Community
If you had told Melinda Locklear early in her career, when she was working as an organic chemist, that one day she’d help lead North Carolina’s largest organ donation and tissue recovery organization, she’d probably…
Stories of Hope
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