More Good News From Ruby Jane's Legacy

Matt and Ani Taylor lost their infant daughter in the summer of 2011 because she couldn't find a match for a liver transplant, but vowed to keep 7-month-old Ruby Jane's memory alive by doing something that might have saved her: Enlist organ donors.

They created the Ruby Jane Foundation and began the Run For Ruby, first held in Jan. 2012, and again this year in which.

The couple—who are Donate Life ambassadors to Rancho Santa Margarita, Lake Forest and San Juan Capistrano—were presented last week at the City Council of RSM as it proclaimed April to be DMV/Donate Life California Month in the city.

Nationwide, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services named April as Donate Life Month to raise public awareness of the critical need for organ, tissue and blood donation.

Additionally, the Taylors were notified on March 27 that a person who signed up for the bone marrow registry at the inaugural Run For Ruby in RSM had been called as a potential bone marrow match for a 55-year-old man.

The good news doesn't stop there.

According to Ani Taylor, Ruby had the most successful e-campaign on the Donate Life website for enlisting Californians in 2012.

She and her team will participate in the Donate Life Run/Walk on April 27 at Cal State Fullerton

Currently, there are more than 21,000 people waiting for life-saving organs in California, and more than 7,000 live in Southern California. A single donor can save up to eight lives though the sharing of a heart, kidneys, lungs, pancreas, liver and small intestines, and enhance the life of 50 through the gift of corneas and tissues such as bone, skin, veins, and tendons, among others.

Several hundred people participated in the inaugural Run For Ruby, including her grandfather, Craig Bewsey, who is stricken with multiple sclerosis. The Vietnam vet—who can barely walk—completed the 2011 walk in flip-flops, then came back and did it again in January.

To read more about Ruby Jane Taylor and the Taylor Family's journey:

• 'Little Jewel' Needs Liver Transplant to See First Birthday
• Ruby Jane's Tiny Heart Gives Way
• Ruby Jane Taylor's 'Sweet Spirit' Touches Many