Become a donor:

Dear Donor,

Thank you for contacting the Family Fertility Center. I am pleased that you wish to be a part of our Ovum Donor Program. Your interest in helping an infertile couple achieve their dream of having a child is extremely important and you are to be congratulated. It is important to evaluate the appropriateness of your participation in the Ovum Donor Program before you make a commitment. Our web site contains a Patient's Guide, and many articles that will help answer many of the medical questions you may have regarding becoming an Ovum Donor. If you feel this is something for you, please call us here at Family Fertility Center on our toll free number at 800-939-6886 or locally at 925-977-4850.

After a short phone interview we will give you access to the on line donor application. This extensive questionnaire along with your original photos (current head-and-shoulders, and one full-length color photo of you as an adult, as well photos of you growing up) will form your application. Please fill it out carefully and truthfully. Prospective parents will make their choices based on the information they see within these pages. The people looking at these applications will receive no identifying information about you other than your first name. Please complete the enclosed authorization for release of information and return it with your application. There is also a form for input from your husband/partner (if you have one) that should be returned with the application. We also ask that a copy of your driver's license or birth certificate be submitted along with your application. Please keep a copy of the application for yourself, so you can call us with updated information.

We love to have childhood photos of you and, family photos of other members of your family (any generation). Please send in original photos. We treat these photos with great care. We will make color copies for our files and safely return these treasured photos soon after we receive them. Please do not send color copies.

Many recipients will keep your application in a safety deposit box to share with their children when they are older. Please consider these children when you write your application. Be as descriptive as possible. Think of the information that you would like to have made available to you if you were 18 years of age and conceived with the help of an ovum donor.

Once you are matched, we will give you specific information about the semi-anonymous meeting with your recipient couple if one is scheduled. Remember, last names, addresses and phone numbers are never exchanged unless all parties have given consent. I look forward to working with you.

With warm personal regards,

M'lyn Gellens Butterfield, R.N., M.S.

Marilyn G. Butterfield, R.N., M.S.
Director