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New Name and URL in the New Year

01/19/2010
News

You spoke; we listened. A spring/summer 2009 survey of our patients, patient families,
volunteers, and health care professionals revealed that NTAF was the name people were
most familiar with when referring to our organization. As of January 4, 2010, our new name
is NTAF - The Leader in Fundraising Assistance and Support for Transplant and
Catastrophic Injury.

We will slowly begin changing the name on all materials, as we have done on our Web site,
which now has a new Web site address (URL). As of January 4, 2010, access NTAF
on the Web at http://www.NTAFund.org. If you, or a contributor, mistakenly types in one of the
old URLs – http://www.transplantfund.org or http://www.catastrophicfund.org – after January 4,
you (or they) will be automatically rerouted to the new URL www.NTAFund.org. The same applies for our new staff e-mails, which now end with @NTAFund.org rather than @transplantfund.org.

A 26-year history of NTAF:

1983	The National Heart Assist & Transplant Fund (NHATF) was established to assist end-stage heart disease patients with funding for transplants, which at the time were considered experimental by insurance companies.
1989	NHATF began to serve lung-heart and lung transplant patients.
1995	NHATF began to serve all solid organ, bone marrow and stem cell transplant patients – and changed its name to National Transplant Assistance Fund to include its broadened patient population.
2000	National Transplant Assistance Fund expanded its service to help individuals living with catastrophic injuries (spinal cord and traumatic brain). The NTAF Catastrophic Injury Program— a special program of the National Transplant Assistance Fund, was established.
2005	National Transplant Assistance Fund became known as National Transplant Assistance Fund & Catastrophic Injury Program.
2010	National Transplant Assistance Fund & Catastrophic Injury Program became NTAF – The Leader in Fundraising Assistance and Support for Transplant and Catastrophic Injury.