Get Involved
Four things actually move the number: register, ambassador, volunteer, partner. A fifth — telling one person aged 17 to 35 what you have read here — costs nothing and works better than any poster we have ever printed.
Most Impactful Action
Join the Stem Cell Registry
Compatibility follows inherited tissue markers, so a patient's likeliest donor shares their ancestry. If your community is underrepresented on the national stem cell registry, your single registration changes the odds for its patients more than almost anything else you could do in a quarter of an hour.
It is free, there are no needles, and nobody turns up at your door. Two minutes of questions online, a kit in the post, a cheek swab, a pre-paid envelope — and you are on the registry until you ask to be removed.
What to Expect
Answer the national stem cell registry's short online eligibility questionnaire (about 2 minutes)
A free swab kit arrives by mail, usually within one to three weeks
Complete a simple cheek swab and return it in the pre-paid envelope
You are on the registry. If you are ever a match, the registry contacts you — and you can still say no at that point.
More Ways to Help
Other Ways to Get Involved
Not ready to register, or already registered? There are many other ways to support this campaign and help advance health equity for underrepresented communities.
Ambassadors are the eight people who do the asking: they host info nights, staff drives, answer the awkward questions, and lend their own name to the campaign in their community. It is a real commitment — roughly one event a month — and we train you properly. We take applications for the next cycle year-round.
Express Your InterestDrives run on volunteers: two per station, one explaining and one swabbing. Training is a half-day session held two or three times a year, after which you can sign up for whichever dates suit you. Forty volunteers were trained in 2026. If you can give four hours on a Saturday, that is enough.
Reach Out to VolunteerWhat we need from partners is usually mundane: a room for an afternoon, counter space for kit cards, a slot at your festival, an hour of staff time, or help printing resources. Clinics, campuses, cultural societies, pharmacies and employers are all already doing it — see who, and how, on the Partners page.
Learn About PartnershipsThe most common reason people give for never having registered is that nobody asked them. So ask someone. Repost a drive. Mention it at dinner. Our best-performing recruitment channel in 2026 was not a poster, a radio spot or an ad — it was one person telling another that this takes fifteen minutes.
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Register Today
Fifteen minutes, no needles, free. If your community is underrepresented on the registry, you may be the only compatible match in the country for a patient who shares your ancestry.