Why Should Donors Work With An Agency?

There are many ways to be an egg donor - there are fresh cycles, frozen cycles, egg donor banks, egg donor agencies. Intend is an egg donor agency, and we sometimes are asked what the benefits are to working with an agency vs. an egg bank (which is often quicker). Here are some of the reasons why you might want to work with an egg donor agency:

Personal Attention & Guidance

One of the biggest benefits of working with an agency is the extra care and attention that you get as a donor. Donating at a clinic egg bank is often quicker and more convenient, but you are one of many donors that they are working through, and often that means you aren't getting as much guidance and one-on-one attention throughout the process. As a first time donor, this can be especially stressful as you aren't yet familiar with all of the procedures that donating entails.

At our agency, you have a Case Manager specially assigned to you whose job is to hold your hand throughout the entire egg donation process, from matching through the retrieval procedure. Your Case Manager helps liaise with the clinic in sending over medical records, helps you coordinate scheduling appointments, and makes sure you are getting the information you need from the clinic team. It can be hard as a new donor to stand up for yourself and feel like your needs are being met, especially when the clinic has so many people to deal with.

The agency acts as an advocate for the donor. If you don't understand how to administer your medication, we make sure that someone from the clinic is there to help you with that. If there's an issue with travel, we are there rebooking flights and hotels. We arrange your legal team and follow up with you after the retrieval procedure, making sure that you and your support person have made it back to the hotel and that you are feeling okay.

Higher Compensation

Another benefit of working with an agency like ours, is that we offer very competitive compensation. At Intend we only do fresh cycles not frozen. Fresh cycles take longer and require more effort on the donor's part, and thus we offer higher compensation for our donors. We are also a boutique agency specializing in highly qualified donors, so our intended families are willing to pay higher compensation fees for our donors.

Reputation & Screening

Our team has been operating in the egg donation industry for nearly a decade. We've worked with hundreds of intended families and donors, and worked with clinics all across the United States. We have cultivated a reputation of professionalism, transparency, and our clients' happiness.

When you sign up to work with Intend, you know that you are getting an experienced team who works in a timely and professional manner. We pride ourselves on being a high-touch agency, and being quick with communication, an essential part of making the egg donation process run smoothly and efficiently.

We also thoroughly screen both our donors and our intended parents, to ensure that we are working with the right kinds of people. When you work with us, you know that the people on the other side of the process have been vetted by us.

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At the end of the day, the decision of whether to work with an egg bank or agency is personal to you and your goals with egg donation. We also are open to our donors donating with a clinic while on our donor database - we just ask that they keep us updated if they do so, so that we know that they are unavailable to be matched with one of our families during that time.