CWA Fund a Lifeline for Members Searching for Bone Marrow Donors

A CWA fund is available for members and their families who are facing a bone marrow transplant and what can be an expensive, and uninsured, search for a donor match.

CWA created the fund in partnership with the “Be the Match Foundation” in 1998. Since then, donations from members and locals have totaled more than $52,000.

The Foundation, started by the family of a young leukemia patient, has helped register 9 million donors since 1987 and coordinated more than 43,000 transplants worldwide. The registry includes countless CWA members who have signed up on their own or at booths at past CWA conventions.

Members or retirees in need, or anyone who knows of a need within the CWA family, should contact CWA Senior Director Yvette Herrera at (202) 434-1133 or by email at yherrera@cwa-union.org.