Project Donor
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Project Donor is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between November 07, 2023 and October 13, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “I received an email from a group called Project Donor. They help transplant candidates who were rejected turn things around so they can qualify”; “Daniela’s org, Project Donor , gives these people free high-quality medical assistance”. It most often appears alongside Australia, COVID, Scott.
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- Category: Organizations
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: November 07, 2023
- Last seen: October 13, 2025
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Related Pages
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- Australia (2 shared issues)
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- COVID (2 shared issues)
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- Scott (2 shared issues)
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- Slate Star Codex (2 shared issues)
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- United States (2 shared issues)
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- 2023 (1 shared issues)
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- Aaron Silverbook (1 shared issues)
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- Aceso Under Glass (1 shared issues)
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- ACX Grant (1 shared issues)
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- ACX Grants (1 shared issues)
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- ACX Grants (1 shared issues)
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- ACXG (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
I received an email from a group called Project Donor. They help transplant candidates who were rejected turn things around so they can qualify. They provide weight loss, smoking cessation, and psychotherapy. If you made the terrible choice of telling the truth to a transplant evaluation psychiatrist, they seem like a good next step.
Inline links: Project Donor
Daniela Shuman, $100K, to improve eligibility for organ donation. Many people want to donate an organ during their lifetime, but are turned away for minor health problems (e.g. being overweight, being a smoker). Daniela’s org, Project Donor, gives these people free high-quality medical assistance to solve their problems (e.g. lose weight, quit smoking), then encourages them to reapply. They report having caused >100 successful donations so far, but are growing fast and think there’s a “market” to enable as many as 2,000 extra transplants per year. I was excited by them not only because of my own frustrating experience with organ donation, but because they claim incredible cost-effectiveness numbers - maybe as little as $2,500 per life saved.
Inline links: Project Donor, my own