Save lives. Transform your team.
NMDP Get in the Game℠ uses the power and influence of college athletics to recruit more students to the NMDP RegistrySM to become potential blood stem cell donors. A blood stem cell transplant can cure or treat more than 75 diseases, including blood cancers and other blood disorders like sickle cell. Teams participate in the program by hosting registry recruitment events to help motivate more students and athletes to join.
With NMDP Get in the Game, good goes a long way.
Make a direct and personal impact without fundraising. NMDP℠ covers all costs, planning and logistics. Just pick a date to host your recruitment event and we’ll handle the rest.
325+ schools
190,000 registrants
1,100+ donors
The play-by-play
Setting up an NMDP Get in the Game registry recruitment event is simple. NMDP will work with you to train your athletes, plan and lead the event. All you need to do is show up!
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Pre-season planning
NMDP has representatives across the country ready to do all the work on campus to make your event a success. Pick a date for your event and let us handle the rest.
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Training day
Prior to your event, your NMDP representative will make sure the team is trained to educate and enroll their peers.
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The big event
During the event, athletes will team up at tables to assist their campus peers in joining the NMDP Registry.
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Commitment
Once swabbed and added to the NMDP Registry, it is important for all potential donors to stay committed and say ‘yes’ if called to donate.
Andy Talley Bone Marrow Foundation
Where it all started
With ninety collegiate football players under his leadership, Coach Talley began his mission to educate and promote awareness about the importance of joining the registry. He held his first on-campus event at Villanova and registered over 200 students and coaching staff from the community and continued to organize events on campus for years to come.
In 2008, NMDP and the Andy Talley Bone Marrow Foundation officially teamed up and formed Get in the Game. Save a Life.
Over the years, the program has expanded beyond football and grown to include hundreds of teams across a number of sports recruiting their peers to join the NMDP Registry, and has given over 1,100 patients a second chance at life.
Meet the Coaches’ Council
The Get in the Game Coaches’ Council and program coaches are working with Coach Andy Talley and other coaches across the country to bring in new schools to the program, expanding the reach of this life-saving mission to new campuses.
I remember being in class and getting the call saying that I was a potential match for someone who was fighting cancer. The decision to go through with the process wasn’t a hard one. Definitely do it if you have the chance, you are helping someone other than yourself.
LexBlood stem cell donor
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