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We have passed the 1000 mark!
Since running its first drive in May 2009, Swab a Cheek, Save a Life (SACSAL) has
successfully enrolled more than 1000 new potential donors in the worldwide registry.
SACSAL has reached out to communities of diverse backgrounds in Massachusetts, Florida,
Rhode Island, Maryland, Washington, DC and Kansas City, Missouri! We are
deeply indebted to the community organizations and individuals who have embraced
our cause and helped SACSAL pursue its mission. THANK YOU!
Join Team Swab-a-Cheek at the Marine Corps Marathon/10K – October 30, 2011
Please join us in one of Washington D.C.'s most popular and best-known distance
runs – the Marine Corps Marathon. For those of you not quite up to the 26 miles,
there is also a 10K Road Race, which is a 6 mile trek from the national Mall (Washington
Monument) to the Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Virginia. We invite you
to run on Team Swab-a-Cheek on October 30, 2011, or support us by making a donation.
Each runner is asked to raise a minimum of $540 by September 15, 2011. All it takes is getting 20 people to give you $27 in donations. In addition, there is a Marine Corps Marathon registration fee of $90 for the marathon or a $45 fee for the 10K Road Race. Swab-a-Cheek has a limited number of slots available! If you are interested in running contact Lisa today at or call us at 561-982-2919.
The capacity to do the right thing, to dare to take a stand
and make a difference, is within you now. The question is: When the moment arrives,
will you remember you’re a hero and selflessly respond in support of those in need?
--Anthony Robbins
Media/Press
Letters: Hospice, Alzheimer's Association aid family caregivers; marrow donors
The public should know that while donors join the bone marrow registry for free, recruitment groups such as ours pay lab costs of anywhere from $50 to $100 per swab kit.
What transplant patients need most is legislation that will mandate that insurance companies cover their donor's/subscriber's cost of bone marrow tissue typing so they can join the public registry. This is already happening in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island.
One person can make an incredible difference. Donors say that receiving the phone call about the match is like winning the lottery. Any reader between the age of 18 and 61 can be someone's miracle match.
Sara Jane Harris, Lisa Horowitz, Donna Joe, Isabel Roman-Cogswell, Evie Goldfine
Founders of Swab a Cheek, Save a Life
Reprinted from the Washington Post Opinions-Health section, June 7, 2010.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/07/AR2010060703221_4.html
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Watch video of SACSAL’s interview with Washington Business Tonight anchor Rebecca Cooper (May 27, 2010)
See: http://www.washingtonbusinesstonight.com/video.cfm
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Look for/Click on:
Thursday May 27, 2010
Swab a Cheek, Save a Life
Our guests talk about putting our lives on hold to answer the growing call for bone
marrow donors.
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Read Washington Examiner article “Swabbin' for love: Daschle, State Department swab for Devan” (May 25, 2010), by Nikki Schwab and Tara Palmeri
ABC 7’s Rebecca Cooper tells former Sen. Tom Daschle to say ahhhh at the “Swab a
Cheek, Save a Life” event Saturday.
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Listen to Swab a Cheek, Save a Life’s interview with Debra Feinstein of WTOP-FM
(Washington, DC) (October 2009)
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