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Sep 06, 2024

World Marrow Donor Day is on September 21 this year

Help us celebrate the 10th anniversary of this international day of recognition for blood stem cell and marrow donors
Sep 04, 2024

UVA student joins registry on World Marrow Donor Day and quickly saves a life

Donor called only five months later to save man diagnosed with blood cancer
Aug 28, 2024

Middlesex University alum crosses Atlantic to Boca Raton to save a life

Donor joined the registry during her gap year in Jerusalem
Aug 20, 2024

Mass. leukemia patient meets man who saved his life during Boston Red Sox game

His stem cell donor also helped save another man’s life through the same transplant process
Aug 15, 2024

Medical resident donates blood stem cells to save girl diagnosed with aplastic anemia

Donor ordered a kit online hoping to help blood cancer patients in need
Aug 13, 2024

Georgia mother meets man whose life she saved during Atlanta Gala

Ignacio Edenburg, currently seeking a matching donor, is honored during event

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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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Attentive NYC x Gift of Life
12:30 PM- 1:30 PM
Attentive NYC x Gift of Life
136 Madison Avenue
8th floor (Attentive)
New York, NY 10016
10
Sep
Attentive SF x GOL
9:00 AM- 4:30 PM
Attentive SF x GOL
114 Sansome Street
Attentive Office
San Francisco, CA 94104
10
Sep
Delta Tau Delta @ OSU
9:00 AM-10:00 PM
Delta Tau Delta @ OSU
Columbus, OH
10
Sep
Penn State Hillel Swab for Al Drive
4:00 PM- 8:00 PM
Penn State Hillel Swab for Al Drive
University Park, PA 16802
10
Sep
Saint Louis University - APO
7:15 PM- 8:00 PM
Saint Louis University - APO
St. Louis, MO
10
Sep
Case Western Swab the Deck with Phi Sigma Ro
12:00 PM- 4:00 PM
Case Western Swab the Deck with Phi Sigma Ro
Cleveland, OH
11
Sep
Chabad Welcome Week Concert @ USC
5:00 PM- 9:00 PM
Chabad Welcome Week Concert @ USC
Los Angeles, CA
11
Sep
Elaine Robins - Young Professionals Night
6:30 PM- 8:00 PM
Elaine Robins - Young Professionals Night
Cleveland, OH
11
Sep
FAU Breezeway
12:00 PM- 2:00 PM
FAU Breezeway
777 Glades Road
Boca Raton, FL 33431
11
Sep
Huron Chicago
12:00 PM- 1:00 PM
Huron Chicago
550 West Van Buren Street
Chicago, IL 60607
11
Sep
482,632
Registered Donors
33,300
Donor Matches
5,307
Transplants Facilitated
193,834
Patient Searches
31,928
Donor Drives
47
Countries Served

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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Sep 10, 2024

New match in Cadence Brennan's Donor Circle

A 59 year old woman battling Leukemia has found a match.
MATCHES
12
TRANSPLANTS
0
Sep 10, 2024

New match in Birthright Israel

A 73 year old man battling Myelodysplastic Disorder has found a match.
MATCHES
4671
TRANSPLANTS
514
Sep 10, 2024

New match in Saxton's Army

A 56 year old woman battling Acute Myelogenous Leukemia has found a match.
MATCHES
61
TRANSPLANTS
8
Sep 10, 2024

New match in Baltimore Hebrew Congregation

A 64 year old woman battling Acute Myelogenous Leukemia has found a match.
MATCHES
23
TRANSPLANTS
3
Sep 10, 2024

New match in Team Alan Cohen

A 52 year old woman battling Severe Aplastic Anemia has found a match.
MATCHES
1209
TRANSPLANTS
188
Sep 10, 2024

New match in Steps for Life Donor Circle

A 33 year old man battling Acute Myelogenous Leukemia has found a match.
MATCHES
913
TRANSPLANTS
142
Sep 10, 2024

New match in Team Alan Cohen

A 49 year old woman battling Acute Myelogenous Leukemia has found a match.
MATCHES
1209
TRANSPLANTS
188
Sep 09, 2024

New match in Project Life Movement

A 64 year old man battling Acute Myelogenous Leukemia has found a match.
MATCHES
1305
TRANSPLANTS
134
Sep 09, 2024

New match in Paige Davis's Donor Circle

A 55 year old woman battling Acute Myelogenous Leukemia has found a match.
MATCHES
3
TRANSPLANTS
0
Sep 09, 2024

New match in University of Massachusetts Amherst CAP Program

A 58 year old man battling Myelodysplastic Disorder has found a match.
MATCHES
54
TRANSPLANTS
4

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