Be The Match® operates the Be The Match Registry®, the world's largest listing of potential marrow donors and donated cord blood units.

Every year, thousands of people of all ages are diagnosed with blood cancers like leukemia or lymphoma, sickle cell anemia or other life-threatening diseases. Seventy percent of people do not have a donor in their family and depend on the Be The Match Registry to find a match to save their life.

Be The Match Foundation® raises funds to help patients who need a marrow or umbilical cord blood transplant find a donor and receive treatment.

The Impact Your Donation Can Make:

  • $25 covers one clinic visit co-pay. Patients must visit the transplant clinic daily or weekly during their three to six months of outpatient recovery. Clinic co-pays can add up to $300 a month.
  • $50 covers two days of meals for a patient and their caregiver during outpatient recovery.
  • $100 covers the cost to add one potential marrow donor to the Be The Match Registry, giving more searching patients hope for a cure.
  • $250 covers 10 monthly prescription co-pays. Many patients take 20 or more medications per day during recovery - that's $500 in prescription co-pays each month.
  • $500 provides two weeks of temporary housing during recovery. If patients live more than an hour away from the transplant center they are required to relocate and live nearby for the three to six months of recovery. Many families spend $800 to $1,500 a month on temporary housing, while also covering a mortgage back home.

Learn more about our lifesaving work in our 2012 Report to the Community.