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Fully Furnished Rent-Free Housing

for people waiting for a lifesaving transplant and living far from a transplant hospital.

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Organ Donation Awareness

“Greater love has no one than this, that he lay his life down for his friends.” – John 15:13

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The Foundation’s Impact

Impact of the David Nicklas Organ Donor
Awareness Foundation:

Sharing organ donor awareness in many ways
Grand Prairie’s Proclamation of Organ Donor Awareness Month
Provided housing for 175 Transplant families in fully furnished rent-free apartments
$132,000 donated to Children First Counseling Center
$74,000 donated to Crisis Relief Ministry
$133,000 donated to Life Line Shelter
$18,000 donated to Grand Prairie United Charities
$13,000 donated to Loh Foundation
$24,000 donated to Santa Cop
$16,000 donated to YMCA
$190,000 given to the National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation
$5000 to Grand Prairie Citizen Police Academy Alumni Association
$4000 given to the Rotary Club of Grand Prairie
$10,000 to By Faith not Sight
$76,000 in donations to various foundations and organizations in DFW.
Scholarships awarded
The Nicklas Foundation has provided funding for the construction of Isaiah House in Grand Prairie

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Nicklas Foundation in the media

Foundation honors organ donor who saved the life of a fellow Texan

Rodney Debaun runs the Nicklas Foundation in North Texas. In 1993, David Nicklas died in a motorcycle accident, and his heart saved Rodney’s life.

“Without David Nicklas I wouldn’t be here,” Debaun said. “I’d have died 26 years ago. Wouldn’t have seen my kids grow up, wouldn’t have seen my grandkids, wouldn’t have had the opportunity to try to help other people.”

David’s mother Joyce Nicklas said her biggest fear was that her son would be forgotten.