What is the NMDP?
MatchMaker leverages the resources of existing organizations by working with local blood centers and National Marrow Donor Program Registry® (NMDP) recruitment groups. The NMDP is the international leader in the facilitation of unrelated marrow and blood stem cell transplantation. A non-profit organization based in Minneapolis, Minn, the NMDP facilitates transplants for patients with life-threatening diseases who do not have matching donors in their families. The NMDP offers a single point of access for all sources of stem cells used in transplantation: marrow, peripheral blood and umbilical cord blood. Through an extensive network of national and international affiliates, the NMDP currently facilitates more than 160 transplants each month. Although we worked with local blood centers and NMDP recruitment groups during our 1st Marrow-thon, in November 2002, we initiated a direct outreach effort with NMDP recruitment groups like Asian American Donor Program (AADP) and Asians for Miracle
