OneLegacy’s Donate Life Rose Parade® Float Announces Its 2026 Float Theme, Treasure Every Moment Together

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 17, 2025--

OneLegacy announced the theme of their 2026 OneLegacy Donate Life Rose Parade® float, Treasure Every Moment Together. This entry will be featured in the 137 th Rose Parade® presented by Honda on January 1, 2026, in Pasadena, California. As part of this iconic New Year’s Day celebration, OneLegacy’s float will join dozens of floral floats, marching bands, and equestrian units riding down Colorado Boulevard.

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The 2026 Rose Parade® theme, The Magic in Teamwork, celebrates the power of collaboration and collective achievement. It emphasizes that exceptional results come from a willingness to work together. Organ donation and transplantation rely on the coordinated efforts of hospitals, organ procurement organizations, transplant centers, donors, and recipients. When an organ donor gives the gift of life to a recipient, it exemplifies the theme chosen by Tournament of Roses President Mark Leavens.

“OneLegacy has long been an inspiring presence in the Rose Parade,” says Leavens. “Their float is more than a beautiful display; it’s a powerful reminder of what’s possible when people come together with compassion and purpose. Their message of generosity, hope, and teamwork reflects the very best of our community.”

OneLegacy’s twenty-third entry into the Rose Parade®, Treasure Every Moment Together, highlights gratitude for moments shared with others. This lush tropical paradise is a reminder that registered organ, eye, and tissue donors offer the greatest treasure: the gift of life. Grateful organ recipients will sail through Pasadena, California, in two traditional canoes placed at the front of the float. The 2026 OneLegacy Donate Life Rose Parade® Float honors a community of people touched by the power of organ, eye, and tissue donation.

Charles Meier, an award-winning float designer, created the vision for the 2026 OneLegacy Donate Life Rose Parade® float. Three regal, great hornbill birds perch along the float, accompanied by monarch butterflies. Like donation and transplantation, great hornbills play a crucial role in sustaining the circle of life in their communities. Monarch butterflies represent transformation and rebirth and are often used as symbols of donation and transplantation. The centerpiece, an open treasure chest, overflows with flowers, pearls, and Floragraphs – floral portraits of organ, eye, and tissue donors.

Artistic Entertainment Services (AES) will bring the float to life under the direction of the OneLegacy Donate Life Rose Parade® float crew. Over fifteen hundred organ, eye and tissue donation advocates volunteer their time to decorate the float with organic materials such as seeds, grains, bark, and flowers. The decorating shifts commence in October and end in December, culminating in the premiere of the finished float on New Year’s Day. OneLegacy Donate Life Rose Parade® float decorating shifts are posted on the float’s website.

"Every year, millions of people are inspired by the OneLegacy Donate Life Rose Parade float – partners, volunteers, donor families, recipients, living donors, parade attendees, and viewers around the world,” said Prasad Garimella, CEO of OneLegacy. “In 2026, Treasure Every Moment Together reminds us that renewed life is the invaluable gift that organ, eye, and tissue donors leave behind.”

As the world’s most visible campaign for organ, eye, and tissue donation, the OneLegacy Donate Life Rose Parade®, float, produced by OneLegacy, is made possible by support from major organizations across the country. OneLegacy offers many sponsorship opportunities to those interested in amplifying the importance of organ, eye, and tissue donation on a global scale. A full list of sponsorship opportunities can be found on the OneLegacy Donate Life Rose Parade float website.

The OneLegacy Donate Life Rose Parade® float visually shows the impact of organ, eye, and tissue donation. California residents can learn more and register today on the OneLegacy website. Those outside of California can visit the National Donate Life Registry.

About OneLegacy

OneLegacy is a nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives through organ, eye, and tissue donation throughout Southern California, including Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura, Santa Barbara, and Kern counties. Working in close collaboration with hospitals and transplant centers, OneLegacy ensures the recovery of vital organs and tissues. Make a difference: become an organ, eye, and tissue donor by registering at OneLegacy.org/register or by checking “YES” at your local DMV. If you're not already a donor, we encourage you to consider registering today. For more information, visit OneLegacy.org.

About the Pasadena Tournament of Roses®and Rose Parade®presented by Honda

The Pasadena Tournament of Roses® is a volunteer organization that hosts America’s New Year Celebration ® with the Rose Parade ® presented by Honda, the Rose Bowl Game® presented by Prudential and a variety of accompanying events. The Association’s 935 Members supply more than 80,000 volunteer hours, which will drive the success of the 137 th Rose Parade, themed “The Magic in Teamwork,” on Thursday, January 1, 2026, followed by the College Football Quarterfinal at the Rose Bowl Game presented by Prudential. Visit tournamentofroses.com, follow us on Instagram, YouTube and X, and like us on Facebook.

The 2026 OneLegacy Donate Life Rose Parade float, Treasure Every Moment Together

ALEPPO, Syria (AP) — First responders on Sunday entered a contested neighborhood in Syria’ s northern city of Aleppo after days of deadly clashes between government forces and Kurdish-led forces. Syrian state media said the military was deployed in large numbers.

The clashes broke out Tuesday in the predominantly Kurdish neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud, Achrafieh and Bani Zaid after the government and the Syrian Democratic Forces, the main Kurdish-led force in the country, failed to make progress on how to merge the SDF into the national army. Security forces captured Achrafieh and Bani Zaid.

The fighting between the two sides was the most intense since the fall of then-President Bashar Assad to insurgents in December 2024. At least 23 people were killed in five days of clashes and more than 140,000 were displaced amid shelling and drone strikes.

The U.S.-backed SDF, which have played a key role in combating the Islamic State group in large swaths of eastern Syria, are the largest force yet to be absorbed into Syria's national army. Some of the factions that make up the army, however, were previously Turkish-backed insurgent groups that have a long history of clashing with Kurdish forces.

The Kurdish fighters have now evacuated from the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood to northeastern Syria, which is under the control of the SDF. However, they said in a statement they will continue to fight now that the wounded and civilians have been evacuated, in what they called a “partial ceasefire.”

The neighborhood appeared calm Sunday. The United Nations said it was trying to dispatch more convoys to the neighborhoods with food, fuel, blankets and other urgent supplies.

Government security forces brought journalists to tour the devastated area, showing them the damaged Khalid al-Fajer Hospital and a military position belonging to the SDF’s security forces that government forces had targeted.

The SDF statement accused the government of targeting the hospital “dozens of times” before patients were evacuated. Damascus accused the Kurdish-led group of using the hospital and other civilian facilities as military positions.

On one street, Syrian Red Crescent first responders spoke to a resident surrounded by charred cars and badly damaged residential buildings.

Some residents told The Associated Press that SDF forces did not allow their cars through checkpoints to leave.

“We lived a night of horror. I still cannot believe that I am right here standing on my own two feet,” said Ahmad Shaikho. “So far the situation has been calm. There hasn’t been any gunfire.”

Syrian Civil Defense first responders have been disarming improvised mines that they say were left by the Kurdish forces as booby traps.

Residents who fled are not being allowed back into the neighborhood until all the mines are cleared. Some were reminded of the displacement during Syria’s long civil war.

“I want to go back to my home, I beg you,” said Hoda Alnasiri.

Associated Press journalist Kareem Chehayeb in Beirut contributed to this report.

Sandbag barriers used as fighting positions by Kurdish fighters, left inside a destroyed mosque in the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, where clashes between government forces and Kurdish fighters have been taking place in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Burned vehicles at one of the Kurdish fighters positions at the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, where clashes between government forces and Kurdish fighters have been taking place in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

People flee the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, where clashes between government forces and Kurdish fighters have been taking place in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

A Syrian military police convoy enters the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, where clashes between government forces and Kurdish fighters have been taking place in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Burned vehicles and ammunitions left at one of the Kurdish fighters positions at the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, where clashes between government forces and Kurdish fighters have been taking place in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)