Located in Richmond, Virginia, UNOS is a private, nonprofit membership organization that coordinates the nation’s transplant system under the OPTN federal contract. UNOS assists the transplant community and the patients it serves by maintaining the national organ transplant waiting list, coordinating the matching and distribution of donated organs, increasing public awareness of the need for donated organs, serving as a forum to create and define organ sharing policies that maximize the use of donated organs, producing professional education tools, and providing extensive information about organ transplantation to patients and the public.