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BLOOD CANCER
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SAVES LIVES.
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514,506
Registered Donors
37,659
Donor Matches
5,790
Transplants Facilitated
219,908
Patient Searches
34,589
Donor Drives
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Countries Served

Featured Stories

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May 20, 2025

Red Sox game becomes field of dreams for marrow donor and grateful recipient

Donor joined registry at Brandeis University 10 years ago
May 13, 2025

Donor’s second call gives stranger a second chance at life

Tampa man encourages others to step up and fight cancer
May 06, 2025

Air Force veteran takes flight on a new mission: donate stem cells to save a stranger’s life

Spirit of helping others motivated donor to join the registry
Apr 30, 2025

Medical student answers the call to give cancer patient a second chance

Donor asks more Black Americans to join the registry, as tissue matches are population specific
Apr 21, 2025

AEPi brother rocks for 55 hours to promote blood cancer awareness

The University of Miami chapter event raised more than $53,000 to help find stem cell donors for patients
Apr 15, 2025

Alpha Phi Omega member's stem cell donation brings lifesaving hope to leukemia patient

Donor has also organized drives to recruit additional volunteers to the registry
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Upcoming Events

ORDER YOUR FREE SWAB KIT TODAY

A simple cheek swab can save a life

It takes less than 5 minutes to have your Swab Kit completed and mailed back to our lab. This will allow us to include you in the Gift of Life Marrow Registry in order to match you to a patient in need now or in the future. You have the power to save a life!

Upcoming Donor Recruitment Events

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BVAC Blood Drive
1:30 PM- 7:30 PM
BVAC Blood Drive
Bergenfield, NJ
21
May
Senior Swab @ TABC
10:00 AM-11:45 AM
Senior Swab @ TABC
Teaneck, NJ
21
May
Temple IMIG
12:00 PM- 1:00 PM
Temple IMIG
Philadelphia, PA
21
May
The Cozy Corners
4:00 PM- 7:00 PM
The Cozy Corners
Barbeau, MI
21
May
Alpha Phi Omega UC Riverside
9:00 AM- 2:00 PM
Alpha Phi Omega UC Riverside
Riverside, CA
22
May
HOPE Club at the University of Oregon
1:00 PM- 5:00 PM
HOPE Club at the University of Oregon
Eugene, OR
22
May
Senior Swab @ MTA
9:00 AM- 9:30 AM
Senior Swab @ MTA
Washinton Heights, NY
22
May
Upshift Workshop
4:00 PM- 7:00 PM
Upshift Workshop
2501 Champlain Street Northwest
Upshift Workshop
Washington, DC 20009
22
May
AEPuppies UCLA
8:00 AM- 8:00 PM
AEPuppies UCLA
Los Angeles, CA
23
May
Senior Swab @ Mesivta Ohr Chaim Meir
12:30 PM- 1:30 PM
Senior Swab @ Mesivta Ohr Chaim Meir
Lakewood, NJ
23
May

Donor Circles

Donor Circles are personalized communities of donors and supporters that allow you to create fundraising campaigns, organize bone marrow donor drives, and participate in team events all while tracking your community’s direct impact on saving lives.

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May 20, 2025

New match in Russell Lowe's Donor Circle

A 32 year old woman battling Hodgkins Lymphoma has found a match.
MATCHES
376
TRANSPLANTS
43
May 20, 2025

New match in Campus Ambassador Program

A 46 year old man battling Acute Myelogenous Leukemia has found a match.
MATCHES
8656
TRANSPLANTS
904
May 20, 2025

New match in Vanderbilt University CAP Program

A 74 year old man battling Myelodysplastic Disorder has found a match.
MATCHES
214
TRANSPLANTS
18
May 20, 2025

New match in Clemson University CAP Program

A 28 year old woman battling Acute Myelogenous Leukemia has found a match.
MATCHES
56
TRANSPLANTS
6
May 20, 2025

New match in Brooklyn College CAP Program

A 38 year old man battling Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma has found a match.
MATCHES
114
TRANSPLANTS
8
May 20, 2025

New match in Hope 4 Adam

A 68 year old man battling Myelodysplastic Disorder has found a match.
MATCHES
361
TRANSPLANTS
34
May 20, 2025

New match in Campus Ambassador Program

A 68 year old man battling Myelodysplastic Disorder has found a match.
MATCHES
8656
TRANSPLANTS
904
May 20, 2025

New match in Campus Ambassador Program

A 47 year old man battling Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma has found a match.
MATCHES
8656
TRANSPLANTS
904
May 20, 2025

New match in Campus Ambassador Program

A 64 year old man battling Myelodysplastic Disorder has found a match.
MATCHES
8656
TRANSPLANTS
904
May 20, 2025

New match in Campus Ambassador Program

A 70 year old man battling Myelodysplastic Disorder has found a match.
MATCHES
8656
TRANSPLANTS
904

Testimonials

Getting a match puts a whole new perspective on what you’re doing. Most people spend time volunteering to help others, but when you see a direct impact of your work, like a match being found for someone who doesn’t have any other chance at survival, it shows you just how much you are helping people. It shows why this is important, and why you must continue.

Hannah Steinberg
Gift of Life Campus Ambassador, University of South Carolina

Raising needed funds to support Gift of Life, and coordinating swabbing drives to find potential donors, has become my passion. By recruiting other volunteers, I have had the opportunity to encourage hundreds of caring people to engage the best parts of themselves in helping Gift of Life fulfill its life-saving mission.

Gail Oliver
Gift of Life Volunteer since 1991

This is a good deed that anyone would do – anyone of good heart would donate bone marrow. I feel grateful for the opportunity and pray and hope my recipient has the best possible outcome.

Aleksei K.
Bone Marrow Donor

Donating showed me that I can do more than I thought I was capable of. It’s an incredible feeling to think I’ve never met my recipient, but that we share so much in common.

Rebekah H.
Stem Cell Donor

As part of an ethnic minority [with Jewish ancestry] my sample helps make the registry more representative, increasing equitability in our health care system.

Matthew E.
Stem Cell Donor

Receiving the notification that we got a match was an extremely validating experience. It showed me that the effort we are putting in is really making an impact. I am excited to keep on swabbing and keep on finding matches!

Noah Streitfeld
Gift of Life Campus Ambassador, University of Central Florida

I think if more people knew that recipients relied on close genetic matches to receive a transplant, more people would join the registry.

Adin D.
Stem Cell Donor

How could I say no? I never had a second thought. I know someone at the other end is fighting to survive cancer and needs my help.

Keaton P.
Stem Cell Donor

I want to thank CBRE because it’s very gratifying when you work with a company of 78,000 employees that they would drill down deep enough to care about one particular employee’s cause. But that isn’t why they did it, they really bought into how important this cause is.

Stephen B. Siegel
Chairman of Global Brokerage, CBRE

People think about it too much! Go swab, see what happens, maybe you’ll find out you’re a match. Go with the flow and don’t worry. Twenty minutes to donate bone marrow and you’re done – you’ve saved a life!

Carl S.
Bone Marrow Donor

It is rare for people of African ancestry to find a match, and especially hard for people of mixed race. Donating is a wonderful opportunity, this is more of a privilege than anything else. You just feel very good in about yourself that you are doing something to help somebody, so I encourage everyone to get on the registry.

Ifunanya N.
Stem Cell Donor

The Mets are proud to be a longstanding corporate partner of 15 years with Gift of Life. When the donors and recipients meet [on the ball field] the space is immediately filled with gratitude, compassion and inspiration. We appreciate the work Gift of Life does every day and we look forward to creating many more memories together.

Juliana Sabra
Manager of Community Engagement and External Affairs, New York Mets