Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation

The Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation was established in 1991 as a donor recruitment organization to help save the life of New Jersey leukemia patient Jay Feinberg. Between 1991-95, the organization launched an ambitious campaign to recruit donors of Eastern-European Jewish ethnicity throughout North America and abroad.

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Over the course of four years, 60,000 donors registered with the National Marrow Donor Program in the United States, as well as other national registries in Canada, Israel and many other countries through Gift of Life's campaign.

Today, Gift of Life is an affiliate registry of the National Marrow Donor Program that specializes in increasing ethnic diversity of the donor pool through recruitment in the Jewish community. The organization manages a registry of over 100,000 marrow donors and a growing bank of umbilical cord blood units.

The Gift of Life headquarters are currently located in Boca Raton, Florida.