{"id":7,"date":"2016-12-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cota1.wpengine.com\/cotaforemmad\/2016\/12\/13\/how-you-can-help\/"},"modified":"2016-12-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T00:00:00","slug":"how-you-can-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforemmad\/2016\/12\/13\/how-you-can-help\/","title":{"rendered":"How You Can Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>If you could help make a miracle, would you?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The question is as simple as that.&nbsp; If your answer is &lsquo;yes&#8217;, I invite you to join the nearly 100,000 volunteers and contributors who during the past two decades generously donated their time and money to the Children&#8217;s Organ Transplant Association (COTA).&nbsp; These volunteers and financial supporters are COTA&#8217;s&nbsp;<strong>Miracle Makers<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8212; a group of committed individuals who are helping give children across the country a second chance at life.<\/p>\n<p>COTA is a national non-profit organization that helps children and young adults who need or have had a life-saving transplant by raising funds to pay transplant-related expenses.&nbsp; Transplant families look to COTA for assistance and support, for hope<br \/>and miracles.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1986, COTA has helped thousands of patients raise millions of dollars for transplant-related expenses.&nbsp; COTA is a 501(c)3 organization; therefore donations to COTA are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law.&nbsp; COTA is the premier national organization helping families with transplant-needy children and young adults.&nbsp; 100% of all funds raised are used for transplant-related expenses.&nbsp; COTA does not charge a fee or take a percentage of the funds raised.<a name=\"Donate\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Make a Donation<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Click here if you want to&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/cota.donorpages.com\/PatientOnlineDonation\/COTAforEmmaD\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GIVE NOW<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;to help make a miracle for COTA families.<\/li>\n<li>Click here if you would like to a&nbsp;<strong><a title=\"Send a Check\" href=\"http:\/\/cota.org\/give\/send_a_check.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Send a Check<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Click here to search for employers with&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.matchinggifts.com\/cota\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Employee Matching Gift<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;programs.<\/li>\n<li>Click here to learn how you can designate your&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/cota.org\/give\/workplace_giving.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Way<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/cota.org\/give\/workplace_giving.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Combined Federal Campaign<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;donation to COTA.<\/li>\n<li>Click here if you would like more information about planned giving options and how to become a member of COTA&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/cota.org\/give\/hope_society.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hope Society<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you could help make a miracle, would you? The question is as simple as that.&nbsp; If your answer is &lsquo;yes&#8217;, I invite you to join the nearly 100,000 volunteers and contributors who during the past two decades generously donated their time and money to the Children&#8217;s Organ Transplant Association (COTA).&nbsp; These volunteers and financial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforemmad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforemmad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforemmad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforemmad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforemmad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforemmad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}