Impact and Programs
Accomplishments
Provided support of Patient Search and Transplant Assistance and Marrow Donor Assistance of $3,300,000 supporting 1800 patients and families; supported Marrow Donor Recruitment by $2,050,000, helping add over 20,200 people to the Be The Match(R) Registry; funding Research of $1,000,000, which supported clinical trials to improve outcomes and fund 8 young research scholars to investigate complications after transplant.
Current Goals
FY17 programmatic goals: Patient Search & Transplant Assistance and Marrow Donor Assistance: $3.7M; Marrow Donor Recruitment: $2.0M; Research Support: $1.64M; marrow transplant network and healthcare professional education: $240k.
Community or Constituency Served
6,200 Marrow Transplant recipients last year.
Geographic Area Served
We fundraise in the United States to support US marrow transplant patients with patient assistance, U.S. marrow donors with donor assistance grants, as well as fundraise for lifesaving research and to continue to add more marrow donors to the most diverse marrow registry in the world.
