Upcoming Drives

Our marrow drives are made possible through contributions from and collaboration with a variety of partners. Some drives are piggybacked upon local Central Blood Bank of Pittsburgh blood drives. Some are run in cities around the country by the Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation. Some are run by The HLA Registry. All drives are held for the purpose of finding a stem-cell donor for Amy.

Our successfully completed drives are listed on the drive history page.

The HLA Registry Drives

Please note that all HLA Registry donor drives now use a cheek-swab test and no blood is involved in this test.

• No Amy's Army/HLA Registry drives are currently scheduled.

Local Central Blood Bank Drives

Most of the local tissue-typing drives are held at blood drives run by the Central Blood Bank in Pittsburgh. Please use Amy's CBB tracking number #Z0020553 when you sign up to also be tested as a CBB marrow donor.

• Sunday, May 4th
  8am-1:30 pm
  Beth El Congregation
  1900 Cochran Rd, Mt. Lebanon
  Contact SStonick@itxm.org for an appt.
  
  
  

Gift of Life Drives

The Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation has been instrumental in the search for Amy’s donor. Over a hundred donor recruitment campaigns have been run by Gift of Life on Amy’s behalf in Jewish communities throughout the United States, Canada and Israel. Gift of Life is an internationally recognized organization working to increase the representation of Jewish donors in the worldwide database and has generously underwritten the cost of tissue typing the thousands of potential donors who have been tested to see if they are a match for Amy.

Since genetic background is a factor in the determination of who will match a person in need, it makes sense that a Jewish donor could be more likely to be able to help Amy, who is also Jewish. It is also possible that Amy's match could be found among the general population. In either case, we are interested in promoting marrow testing drives by everyone because this will surely help the most people

For more information about Gift of Life, please visit their Web site, ww.giftoflife.org. You can join Gift of Life's Registry of volunteer donors by attending a donor recruitment drive (click here to locate a drive near you.)