Do Something: You Could Save a Life

The award-winning DoSomething.org mobilizes young people to volunteer for a wide variety of great causes.  Right now the organization's nationwide bone marrow registry drive targets the best potential donors: college students.

Thousands of cancer patients need bone manor transplants every year, but only 2 percent of the population has had their cheeks swabbed to join the national registry. --DoSomething.org 

This nonprofit inspires college students to set up their own bone marrow drives on university campuses around the U.S.

This barely scratches the surface Do Something's mission.  Animal welfare, disaster relief, fighting prejudice, health issues, poverty, or bullying.  Do Something has your cause.  The organization even gives away grants to people 25 and younger so that they can start up programs in their own communities.

Visit the Do Something website to learn more.

Love Hope Strength Foundation

The current rates indicate 1 in 3 people will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime (Cancer Research UK).  The disease is the number one killer worldwide as of 2010.

Leukemia survivor Mike Peters of the Welsh rock band The Alarm and President of CSI Entertainment James Chippendale founded the Love Hope Strength Foundation in an effort to give all people the critical access to the same resources that saved their own lives.

The organization hosts rock and roll concerts around the world with raising cancer awareness in mind.  Fans have taken part in more than 200 bone marrow drives at these venues.  Since 2007, The Love Hope Strength Foundation has added 10,000 plus people to the national bone marrow registry.

You can find out about events and how to get on the list by clicking here.

The Love Hope Strength Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, is working with the International Coalition of Cancer (UICC) to make saliva-based bone marrow registration a global initiative.