|
||
|
Marrow Donor Program | |
|
|
|
Learn more about it... |
|
|
|
In 1997, The Marrow Foundation invited the U.S. Postal Service to collaborate with them in an effort to build awareness about the National Marrow Donor Program® (NMDP) — especially among African Americans and other ethnically diverse employees — and help increase the number and diversity of volunteer potential donors on the NMDP Registry. At any given time, 6,000 patients are searching the NMDP Registry for an unrelated potential donor. Since 1987, the NMDP has facilitated more than 30,000 marrow and blood cell transplants — from a Registry containing over 7 million names — yet less than 4,100 of those transplants helped African American or other minority patients. To date, the USPS Delivering the Gift of Life campaign has added more than 20,000 ethnically diverse potential donor employees to the NMDP Registry and over 16,000 Caucasian potential donors for a total of more than 36,000 Postal Employees on the Registry! At least 70 Postal Service employees gave the ultimate gift — a second chance at life to a patient in need — by being a marrow or blood cell match through the Delivering the Gift of Life campaign. Our volunteerism efforts through the Delivering the Gift of Life campaign gives postal employees/their spouses/dependents, ages 18+, a unique opportunity to share in a true miracle. What greater gift can one human give to another than the Gift of Life? If you are a USPS employee, click here to find the coordinator in your district. If your district is not listed, you can send an e-mail to marrowcampaign@usps.gov. For more information on the National Marrow Donor Program, go to marrow.org. For more information on The Marrow Foundation, go to themarrowfoundation.org. For more information about the Workplace Partnership for Life, or to download an Organ/Tissue Donor Card, visit organdonor.gov. |
