March for Marrow raises funds for the Patient & Family Services provided by the Aplastic Anemia & MDS International Foundation. This includes a contribution to research as well as patient resource staff, printed information, online webinars and patient and family conferences. We are a patient-focused, patient-centered organization, serving patients and families throughout the three phases of bone marrow failure diseases:
- the life-changing phase of diagnosis
- the life-threatening phase of treatment
- the lifelong phase of living with a chronic disease
The AAMDS International Foundation, Inc. serves over 4,000 patients in Texas annually; over 50 cases of bone marrow failure disease are diagnosed each day in the United States.
The 2025 March for Marrow TX, The Woodlands, is schedule for Saturday, April 5, 2025, at Northshore Park in The Woodlands. March for Marrow will include our 5K Run and one-mile Patient & Family Walk. The purpose of the 5K Run is to attract more healthy, young people to the National Marrow Donor Registry (NMDP), educate a new public, celebrate our Texas survivors and remember those we have lost.
We need volunteers willing to help:
- Plan the event (Planning Committee);
- Identify Sponsors (Sponsorship Committee);
- Recruit raffle donations (Raffle Committee);
- Distribute fliers at businesses (Distribution Committee);
- Create the Experience (Experience & FUN Committee); and
- Day of Volunteer Committee (setting it all up the day of the event - Saturday, April 5, 2025) - and Managing the activity: Run, Walk, Raffle
- Kidz Zone
- Memory Board
- Food & Drink
The goals for March for Marrow continue to be:
1. Educate the public about rare bone marrow failure diseases.
2. Create a support community for patients and families.
- Raise funds for AAMDSIF’s patient services and for research.
- Recruit marrow donors through Be the Match.
Increase awareness of the premier medical resources in the Houston and Central
