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The 2025 OneLegacy Donate Life Rose Parade® Float, Let Your Life Soar, Invites Audiences to Watch or Stream the 2025 Rose Parade on New Year’s Day

The Float will be the Entry Number 11 on the Parade Lineup

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Celebrating 22 years of participation in the Rose Parade, the 2025 OneLegacy Donate Life Float featuring a scene from the beloved Japanese celebration of Children’s Day, including colorful koinobori, or carp shaped windsocks, will soar down the streets of Pasadena on Wednesday, January 1, 2025. The Let Your Life Soar float features 44 honorees, as well as more than 2,000 individually dedicated roses on the bridge of the float.

The 136th Rose Parade will be broadcast live in the U.S. beginning at 8 a.m. PST (11:00 a.m. EST), on Wednesday, January 1, 2025 and it will air on ABC, Great American Family, KTLA, NBC, RFD-TV, Fox 11 and Univision.

Viewers can also join the celebration via livestream, which will be carried, in its entirety, by four streaming services, including Fubo TV, Christmas Plus, Pluto TV and OTT Studio. The 2025 OneLegacy Donate Life float will be entry number 11 on the parade lineup, and it will be the sixth float on the parade, preceded by the San Diego Zoo float and the Valley Hunt Club Equestrian Group.

As the world’s most visible campaign to inspire organ, eye and tissue donation, the OneLegacy Donate Life Float honors the importance of saving lives through the power of organ eye and tissue donation. The float will feature 18 organ and tissue recipients and living donors as riders and walkers and will honor 26 deceased donors through beautiful floral portraits, or floragraphs. The 44 honorees represent 9 states with ages ranging from 2 to 80 years old.

The OneLegacy Donate Life Rose Parade float is produced by OneLegacy, designed by Charles Meier, built by Artistic Entertainment Services (AES) and made possible thanks to more than 20 sponsors, including: Bridge to Life, Dignity Memorial Providers, Donate Life California, Donor Network West, Iowa Donor Network, JRF Ortho, LifeNet Health, Lifesharing, Manhattan Stitching Company, MTF Biologics, Midwest Transplant Network, Nevada Donor Network, NJ Sharing Network, OneLegacy, Palm Mortuaries & Cemeteries, RTI Donor Services, Specialist Direct, UCLA Health and Walgreens.

Register today to become an organ, eye or tissue donor by visiting www.onelegacy.org/Register or registerme.org.

Contacts

Tania Llavaneras
323.354.6619
Tllavaneras@onelegacy.org

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Tania Llavaneras
323.354.6619
Tllavaneras@onelegacy.org

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