The recipient intended parents are people who are extremely motivated to build a family and many have faced struggles either with infertility or access to assisted reproductive technology services for many years. There are several reasons why an intended parent would need donated eggs. These reasons may include women with premature ovarian failure, loss of ovarian function due to cancer or due to the treatment for cancer, or the production of poor quality eggs, and intended parents who require the assistance of both an egg donor and a gestational surrogate. 

Weill Cornell Medicine's egg donation program is private and donor profiles and informaiton is not published. Donors are "anonymous" at the time of donation, but may be asked to be open to sharing their medical information and being available in the future to update any genetic testing. Information about the donor is shared with the recipients in a non-identifying manner; childhood photos may be shared, but not retained. Privacy is mutually respected; the donor will not know identifying details about the intended parent recipients.

Donors may do a cycle to freeze eggs for Cornell's in-house eggbank. Eggs may be frozen and matched with recipients in the future.