Agencies Unite to Launch Donor Network Alliance: First-Ever
Web-Based Collective of Egg Donor Candidates
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
CHICAGO (March 12, 2009) A new Web site has launched that facilitates
the search for egg donors by prospective parents undergoing alternative reproductive
processes. The Donor
Network Alliance (DNA) is the first and only consolidated source of egg donors
recruited by multiple agencies across the United States.
Membership-based DNA was started by three competing Chicago egg donor agencies
that saw the need to pool resources: The
Center for Egg Options (CEO), Northbrook, IL; ConceiveAbilities,
and Alternative
Reproductive Resources (ARR), both of Chicago.
“DNA is needed as the fertility field grows in size and complexity,” said Robin
von Halle, president of ARR. “This has resulted in a proliferation of agencies
that recruit egg donors, which makes weighing agency and donor choices more costly,
confusing and time consuming for intended parents.”
The DNA Web site is the portal to a robust, searchable database of hundreds of
anonymous egg donor candidates represented by donor recruitment firms of all
sizes across the country. It is expected to house at least 10,000 profiles from
participating agencies by the end of its first year in business.
For a nominal fee, subscribers have unlimited access to the database for the
two-week usage term. They can search according to various parameters, from ethnic
descent to eye and hair color. Searches can be saved. Favorites can be flagged.
Each donor profile is posted alongside her agency, which can be e-mailed directly
from the site for further information.
“It’s all about putting the intended parents in control of the egg donor search
process,” said Nazca Fontes, president of ConceiveAbilities. “This helps them
avoid excessive research of multiple agencies, tracking multiple usernames and
passwords, and paying multiple usage fees. It’s a needed improvement of the customer
experience.”
Nancy Block, president of CEO, noted that egg donor agencies also benefit in
an environment where it’s costly and difficult to achieve differentiation. “DNA
helps to level the playing field, giving participating agencies exposure to far
more prospective parents through a shared site than they’d see individually,”
she said.
Find the Donor Network Alliance at www.donornetworkalliance.com.
For further information, e-mail info@donornetworkalliance.com or
call 877-DNA-EGGS (362-3447).
Media contacts:
Sally Hodge (shodge@hodgeschindler.com)
Robyn Velasquez (rvelasquez@hodgeschindler.com)
312.666.6662
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