Recognizing that the community can help save lives, NCJW pioneered the first bone marrow registration drive focused on the Jewish Community in Austin and continues to work towards getting more people in the registry.

Leukemia is a random killer that can strike anyone of us at any time. For many, there is hope of a cure though a bone marrow transplant. This requires a bone marrow donor whose tissue type matches that of the patient. Tissue type is ethno-geographically determined, inherited like eye or hair color. A patient's best chance of finding a genetic match lies with those of similar ethnic ancestry. What greater gift can one human being give to another than the gift of life?