Program areas at Gift of Life Marrow Registry
Donor services - in 2022, 3,330 donors were requested for confirmatory and extended typing, and 327 transplants were facilitated for patients with life-threatening illnesses. Gift of Life serves as a liaison between the donor, collection center and transplant center, providing case management services including all logistics involved in donor confirmatory testing, workup, harvest and follow-up.
Stem cell collection center - performs peripheral blood stem cell collections by apheresis for transplantation. The center opened its doors in late september 2019 and performed 473 life-saving collections in 2022. The center collects donors for the following registries: Gift of Life, be the match and dkms. The collection center also billed and collected from the Gift of Life $565,247 of service fees in 2022. The $565,247 is eliminated in consolidation and is not included in the $1,271,828 reported above.
Community engagement & recruitment - 1) engaging in public relations and marketing activities to promote public awareness of Marrow donation and attendance at all donor drives; (2) operating the volunteer network which organizes speaking engagements at colleges, religious venues, community events and more; (3) provisioning of volunteers for staffing of donor drives and fundraising events; (4) providing web-based design for all online publications and print design for all educational materials, flyers, brochures and ads; (5) registration drives are conducted to tissue type potential donors and enroll them in the Registry. In 2022, 42,419 donors were tissue typed at 1,800 community registration drives conducted by Gift of Life.
Cell therapy laboratory
Information systems
Quality assurance/regulatory compliance
Medical donor services
Search coordination
Biologics
Biorepository