Marrow Donor Drive Campaigns

There are about 6,000 patients searching the National Donor Program Registry (NMDP) for a donor each day. Only 3 out of 10 patients will receive the transplant that can help save their life. The chance to find a suitable donor might be more limited for certain minorities.

It’s often difficult to locate a match because tissue characteristics are so specific. Since tissue types are inherited, patients in need of a marrow transplant are most likely to match with someone from the same ethnic group.

To help meet the need, we are conducting more specific typing and holding donor drive campaigns to increase the diversity of the donor registry, including:

• Save Giovanni's Friends
  Reaching 10 states and Italy adding over 12,500 people to the registry - all from the inspiration of one family whose life was touched by leukemia.

• Do it For Life
  Visiting college and university campuses throughout the U.S. to build awareness and recruit young donors to participate in our life saving effort.

• St. Baldrick's
  Beginning as a casual conversation between friends, and now the world's biggest volunteer-driven fundraising program for childhood cancer.

• Driving for Donors
  Traveling across the country in a "Donormobile" recruiting the much needed marrow donors to help more patient with leukemia and other blood cancers find a life-saving match.

We’re far from our goal as long as there are patients looking for a donor. You can help, become a donor. If you match, you can save someone's life.