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RECRUITMENT AND BMT ORGANIZATIONS
National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) - National
This is the website for the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP). When you register through any local drive, blood center, or home test-kit all of your information will be entered into this national database to be used by any patient in search of a bone marrow donor. NMDP has helped more than 25,000 patients throughout the world receive a transplant for life-threatening diseases. NMDP manages the world’s largest and most diverse Registry of volunteer donors, including more than 60,000 cord blood units.
Asian American Donor Program (AADP) - SF Bay Area
The Asian American Donor Program (AADP) is dedicated to helping save the lives of patients with life threatening blood diseases curable by a stem cell transplant. AADP will be hosting all of our upcoming bone marrow drives in the San Francisco Bay Area.Asians for Miracle Marrow Matches (A3M) - LA Area
The Asians for Miracle Marrow Matches (A3M) coordinates donor recruitment drives, offering patient support services, and providing resources for patients and donors. A3M services the Los Angeles area and is the largest Asian Pacific Islander recruitment group of the National Marrow Donor Program.
Cammy Lee Leukemia Foundatin - NY Area
The Cammy Lee Leukemia Foundation works primarily with the Asian, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander communities and is based in New York City. This group primarily recruits in New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia.
Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center - Texas
Located in Texas, the Gulf Coast Regional Blood center provide blood and bone marrow donor recruitment services. They serve more than 220 hospitals in 25 counties.SAMAR - NY Area
SAMAR works with Asian, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander communities and is based in Rego Park, N.Y. SAMAR began recruiting for the NMDP in 1995. The group primarily recruits in New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware.DKMS - Americas - NY Area
DKMS is the world’s largest marrow donor center with over 1.7 million registered marrow donors. Since its founding, DKMS has facilitated more than 14,000 transplants. In 2004, DKMS expanded its mission to the United States, to diversify the donor pool and since then, DKMS has registered more than 40,000 donors, and facilitated 50 transplants.BMT Basics - Washington Area
To help meet the needs of Washington families whose children, up to age 21, need to undergo a blood or marrow transplant, or BMT. The website is part of MAVIN’s ongoing committment to ending health inequalities.Cryobanks - National
If you are pregnant and would like to donate your cord blood but your hospital does not collect cord blood, you may be able to donate cord blood through Cryobanks International. Cryobanks International accepts donations from anywhere in the continental United States to be listed on the NMDP Registry. Call 1 (800) 869-8608 to learn about Cryobanks’ eligibility requirements and process or visit their Web site.
PROJECT MICHELLE SUPPORTERS
High Quality Translations, Inc.
Maks at High Quality Translations has been helping us overcome countless language barriers by translating many of our materials. HQTranslations has helped us reach out to the Asian donor demographic that we desperately need to educate and get registered. We thank Maks and his team for the amazing work and all the gracious help they continue to provide us with.Moo Cards
When we first created ProjectMichelle.com I wanted a quick and easy way to hand out info to people who expressed interest in getting involved. Moo is a printing company in London that prints wonderful cards and stickerbooks. You can even personalize your cards by uploading images directly on to the Moo website. Moo graciously donated a bunch of mini-cards for me to distribute. This little printing company in London has been very generous and I am so thankful.Yogabear
This San Francisco based non-profit organization aims to match up altruistic yoga instructors/studios with cancer patients and survivors. Yogabear volunteers seek out yoga instructors and ask them to donate a spot in some of their classes. These spots are to be matched with cancer patients and survivors based on a variety of factors (e.g. location, ability, financial need, etc). *My friend is working in this new organization and I think it is such a great idea. I hope I can attend a class in the future.
