Harry Teinowitz has the new liver he so desperately needed. After seven attempts to find a donor that went nowhere, the eighth time was the charm.
In spring of this year, Teinowitz made his need for a new liver known, talking to Barrett Sports Media and advocating for himself on social media. He received support from people across the industry, but it took a few months before he actually found a matching organ donor.
He said it was one of two miracles that came his way. In the Broadcasters Foundation of America newsletter on Thursday, he wrote that the group’s grant was the other.
“The grant from the BFOA has done for me what I imagine it has done for many others in my situation, helped,” the Chicago sports radio icon said. “I’m actually able to pay off my bills and not have to borrow money from family and friends.”
Teinowitz encouraged everyone that is unfamiliar with the group and their work to take time to learn more about it and the financial assistance it aims to provide broadcasters and former broadcasters in need.
“Hopefully you will never need this grant, but you might, or maybe someone you worked with and their family just might. That’s what this Broadcasters Foundation of America grant is all about. It has been a real difference maker for me, as it could be for you, and those you’ve worked with.”
More than 1000 professionals in the radio and television industries have been helped by the Broadcasters Foundation of America. The group’s mission is to help those in the profession that are in need of acute financial assistance as the result of illness or other medical hardships.
