Our work thrives when as many people as possible are informed about blood cancer and stem cell donation. Take advantage of your social network of friends and acquaintances to spread information about our work. For instance, you can display our information in your club or fitness studio or post a link to us on Facebook.

DKMS is also present on all major online networks. Our numerous fans and followers on Facebook, Twitter and StudiVZ receive up-to-the-minute information about DKMS daily.

Why is it important for you to highlight DKMS such as in the social networks?
The principle behind the social networks (e.g., Facebook, studiVZ, etc.) is not only to exchange information among friends and acquaintances, but also to recommend information: For example friends can make recommendations to friends/acquaintances using a link to an Internet site or by means of a picture or video. Since friends recommend good things to their friends, these recommendations are of high value. I other words, you can help get the ball rolling for DKMS by reporting about us, including our link or simply passing on our contents which we publish in the social networks.

The registration and tissue typing of a new potential stem cell donor costs DKMS 50 EUR. The bulk of the costs are for analyzing the tissue types in the lab. We are pleased to note that many of our donors support us here with a voluntary monetary donation.

But not everyone can pay the 50 EUR for the tissue typing so please help us ensure that the willingness to donate does depend on money! Every euro counts in the fight against blood cancer and in the search for the matching donor!  If, for instance, you are unable to donate stem cells for health reasons, you can become a sponsor for other potential stem cell donors by making a monetary donation.

There are many ways to donate money: simply and securely online via PayPal or direct debit, via wire transfer or through the benefit "Spende statt Geschenke"(Donations instead of presents). In addition, in the event of a death in your family you can collect donations or you can make an inheritance donation and give patients around the world a new chance for life.

As a non-profit organization we depend on monetary donations. Every time we add a new potential stem cell donor to our registry it costs 50 EUR. Help us expand our registry and, at the same time, help blood cancer patients.

Do you run marathons in your free time? Is the next club event coming up soon? Are you a champion cake baker? When organizing a benefit for the German Bone Marrow Donor Center your creativity knows no limits.

We will gladly help you and offer guidance and assistance over the phone and, if necessary, we can send you information and brochures about our work. Perhaps we can jointly organize a check handover at the end of your benefit to let local media in on your commitment.

Although DKMS has over 3.6 million million registered donors making it the world’s largest stem cell donor center, many patients in Germany still cannot find a matching donor. Would you like to help improve this situation? Then let’s do something about it together. Donor drives organized by volunteers have made considerable contributions since the inception of our registry. Meanwhile there are $Spenderzahl$$ registered potential stem cell donors, and 36.206 patients have received a chance to live.

If you would like to support us in the fight against blood cancer, we will, of course, help you plan and carry out your drive. After an initial phone conversation, you will receive the "Leitfaden für lokale Initiativgruppen" (Guidebook for local initiative groups) from us in which we have summarized our experiences in organizing donor drives. The guidebook is intended to help you and give you an idea of what is involved in organizing a donor drive. Of course, we are available in person for you any time.

In order for a donor drive to be particularly successful it is helpful to announce it through different channels so that as many people as possible find out about why and when the drive is taking place. There are various ways to do this: Perhaps there is someone in your circle who has already set up a private internet site. Or maybe you are active on the social networks and can pass along the information effectively. There are many options and we are happy to offer you guidance and assistance. For example, we have ready-made internet sites, internet banners, advertisements, and lots of advertising material and much more that can be easily adapted for your drive. If you are interested, we can provide you with this advertising material and give you some pointers on how to use it.

The DKMS Donor Club represents a special group of DKMS donors who have already given a patient the chance of a new life with their stem cells and who would, moreover, like to continue contributing to DKMS and its goals.

If you have donated stem cells for a patient we automatically contact you in writing four weeks after your donation and ask if you would like to become a member of the DKMS Donor Club. Members of the DKMS Donor Club support us, if needed at informative talks, by looking after information booths, or by making themselves available as interview partners to the local press. By sharing their experience as stem cell donors, they might just cast away any last doubts or fears others have.

Usually there are no more than two requests per year, depending on the number of events planned in your region by DKMS.

The support of our DKMS Donor Club members is a great help and we are very grateful. It does make a difference whether a staff member of DKMS or a stem cell donor explains the process of donating stem cells, especially giving that first-hand experiences are usually much more exciting and tangible and the interested parties are grateful to hear them.