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Without a means to take time off to donate, people may not want to commit to registering.The time needed to donate is a problem because most people need the time to work and support themselves and their families. Many workers do not have any paid sic
Paid Time Off for Donors
Without a means to take time off to donate, people may not want to commit to registering.The time needed to donate is a problem because most people need the time to work and support themselves and their families. Many workers do not have any paid sic
Millions of people in the developed world visit the dentist every year. Let's work with dental associations to make offering a cheek swab a standard part of a dental check-up, just like an x-ray or mouthwash.
If you're at the Dentist with your mouth open anyways…
Millions of people in the developed world visit the dentist every year. Let's work with dental associations to make offering a cheek swab a standard part of a dental check-up, just like an x-ray or mouthwash.
Donate with smile
Our application is targeting a user group which is busy with their everyday life. Relating to the personal experience and everyday life of a end bone marrow patient or a registered bone marrow donor who might have donated bone marrow can help these p
Flash Mob Cheek Swab
It would be neat to couple this idea with an actual cheek swab demonstration!
Social Events with a Bonus: Professional gathering, Open Mic Night, Speed Dating ...
There are countless social events that happen on a regular basis that are already bringing young people together, especially people from select ethnic groups that might be underrepresented in bone marrow registries. Why not incorporate testing and aw
Utilizing the power of student clubs
What if we reached out to diverse student clubs, especially South-Asian associations, on campuses throughout the country to help increase the number of registered donors?
Create a Facebook App that allows users to highlight if they or friends require a transplant, have had a transplant, or how close they are to receiving one.
6 Degrees of Bone Marrow Seperation
Create a Facebook App that allows users to highlight if they or friends require a transplant, have had a transplant, or how close they are to receiving one.
"Become a Life-Saver" - Social Bone Marrow Network
To build up a personal and emotional relationship between the actual donor and the patients in need, a social online network, where people become real, with real faces, stories and feelings, could be provided. Real life-savers become featured members
To use the power of brands and influence customers by word-of-mouth to become "potential donors"
Using Foursquare to find a donation center by known brands
To use the power of brands and influence customers by word-of-mouth to become "potential donors"
Micro-credit program can help promote mini livestock farming and organic crop diversification in the community. Community people could involve in the mini livestock farming and cultivate different types of crops round the year that could provide dive
Micro financing for mini livestock farming, mini poultry farming and crop diversification in the community.
Micro-credit program can help promote mini livestock farming and organic crop diversification in the community. Community people could involve in the mini livestock farming and cultivate different types of crops round the year that could provide dive
Micro-credit program can help promote mini livestock farming and organic crop diversification in the community. Community people could involve in the mini livestock farming and cultivate different types of crops round the year that could provide dive
Mini livestock farming, mini poultry farming and crop diversification through micro-financing
Micro-credit program can help promote mini livestock farming and organic crop diversification in the community. Community people could involve in the mini livestock farming and cultivate different types of crops round the year that could provide dive
Get Companies to Push Employee Swabbing as CSR
Bone marrow donation campaigns could capitalize on the growing trend of workplace volunteering as part of large corporations' CSR strategies. Getting companies to sign on to bone marrow awareness and registration campaigns within the workplace could
Buy Bone Marrow and Let Your Donor Live
In many third world contries, people sell essential organs for money. Bone Marrow, however, grows back so why not pay for this instead?
Make it Personal - See & Learn about the Patients
A brief showing of a missing child's photo with info like - Mickey Mouse, 5 years old, last seen on Jan 3rd, 2001, wearing a red shirt etc - at the end of news or some TV programs always catch my attention. Seeing the picture and learning something a
ok so the place where i get really bored is on a train or long haul aircraft. It's down time so why not ask Virgin to put sign up slips on their aircraft and trains.
I'm bored! Time to sign up
ok so the place where i get really bored is on a train or long haul aircraft. It's down time so why not ask Virgin to put sign up slips on their aircraft and trains.
Gain Fans Through (Church) Fans
Taking advantage of a captive, spiritual audience, promote becoming a bone marrow donor on church fans and pass them out at services for free.
Tributes & Toasts
Be the Match can host Tributes & Toasts around the country, where they honor recent donors and invite them to share their story with the event attendees (ie the honorees' friends and family).
This Isn't Your Mama's Bone Marrow Donation Process
The bone marrow donation process isn’t the same as it used to be. The vastly superior technology has been updated, as has the procedure … but we’ve left the brand in past, where images of large hollow needles, long recoveries, and intense pain circu
Make it easy to register and do not leave room for questions whenever possible.
Easy - Breezy
Make it easy to register and do not leave room for questions whenever possible.
Tap into the Influence of Spiritual Leaders
We all know donating bone marrows saves lives, simple as that. No spiritual leaders and faith organizations can deny the importance of a great cause such as saving lives. How can we provide the right resources to spiritual leaders and faith organiz
From student to registrant.
Hold nationwide contests between universities to see who gets the most registrants. This could be anywhere in the world.
