About Be The Match Foundation

Saving lives

Be The Match Foundation^SM raises funds to help patients in need of a bone marrow or umbilical cord blood transplant receive the treatment they need. We target three crucial areas.

A gift to Be The Match Foundation:

• Provides financial assistance for patients who need help with treatment costs
• Funds medical research to keep advancing transplant science
• Adds more donors to Be The Match Registry^SM, increasing the chances that more patients will find their match

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• Ways to give

A history of helping patients

Be The Match Foundation is the new name of The Marrow Foundation^®. Our work with families, corporations and other partners like you has raised millions of dollars for patients in need, and we are building for the future to help many more.

Leadership

• Christine Fleming, president
• A message from the president
• Board of directors — representing National Marrow Donor Program^® and Be The Match Foundation 

Annual report

• 2008 annual report (PDF) 

How we began

Our visionary founder was Admiral E. R. Zumwalt Jr. — the U.S. Navy’s youngest four star admiral and later Chief of Naval Operations. When his eldest son, Elmo, needed a bone marrow transplant to treat lymphoma, Admiral Zumwalt recognized the significant financial needs of patients being served by the NMDP.

After Elmo passed away, Admiral Zumwalt and his wife created The Marrow Foundation, now called Be The Match Foundation, to help meet that need.

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