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Bone Marrow
How to Organize a Drive
You can help save lives by holding a bone marrow registration drive with your community group, school, business or place of worship. It’s easy to join the Registry. Donors must be between the ages of 18 and 60, meet the health guidelines, and be willing to donate to any patient in need.
Every day, thousands of children and adults diagnosed with leukemia or other life-threatening diseases require bone marrow or stem cell transplants to be cured - 70% of those patients will not find a donor in their own families. These patients depend upon The HLA Registry, the largest non-governmental donor center in the U.S., which has been recruiting volunteer marrow and blood stem cell donors in the community for more than 20 years.
The HLA Registry has more than 230,000 donors registered in the National Marrow Donor Program’s (NMDP’s)
Be The Match Registry, the largest and most diverse registry in the world. Doctors search the Registry when they need to find donors for their patients.
The most successful bone marrow drives are the ones that get the most people involved!
Step 1:
Call 201-705-1641 to speak with a recruitment specialist about a date, location and time for your drive or contact us by email for more information
Step 2:
Get other people involved by setting up a committee to provide help with fundraising, recruiting, and educating individuals about the importance of becoming committed donors.
Step 3:
Promote your drive within your organization, school, or community via email, Facebook, Twitter, or by simply posting fliers and information about your bone marrow drive in bulletins, newsletters and local newspapers. We can help!
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