Unveiled in 2024, this cutting-edge Simulation Center elevates training and education. The Donate Eight Simulation Center, located at the LiveOnNY Headquarters in Queens, is state-of-the-art and advances excellence in organ donor care through trainings for LiveOnNY clinical and field staff and education for the public on the lifesaving process of organ donation. The Center includes a fully equipped mock Operating Room and mock Intensive Care Unit designed to train employees in donor case management within a controlled and immersive environment. To date, LiveOnNY has welcomed hundreds of visitors, including high school and college students, state representatives, and many others. The Simulation Center has become an incredible resource – not only for training our staff, but also as a highly effective tool for community education.

Established in March 2025, NYU Grossman School of Medicine and LiveOnNY launched the first-ever Advanced Organ Donor Management Fellowship in the United States, one designed to transform the field of medical education in organ donation. The fellowship is an innovative new medical discipline, focused on organ donation to provide donor hospitals and health systems with a dedicated specialist trained to optimize a donor's medical status, ensuring that organs are procured under the best possible conditions. The initial funding for this first-ever fellowship is provided by the LiveOnNY Foundation and will support a medical trainee for three years as part of NYU Langone’s resident fellowship program. The fellow will participate in education, clinical rotations, and research within NYU Langone and LiveOnNY in the New York region, to create a teaching platform for best practices in organ donation collaboration across different care teams and various hospital settings.

Through it’s “Ya Gotta Have Heart” grant program, LiveOnNY Foundation has supported more than 700 transplant families and patients like little Izabella since 2017 (pictured with her mother). Harboring Hearts provides emergency housing, transportation and food to low income patients and their families across our eight partner transplant centers. Izabella is a heart transplant recipient and her family had one less worry going through the process by having access to a grant from Harboring Hearts. Today, Izabella is thriving and she and her family help share the message about the importance of signing up as an organ donor.