Through various bowling initiatives, BOWL FOR LIFE helps to increase the number of minority donor volunteers on the National Marrow Donor Program’s Be The Match Registry (NMDP) and Colorectal Cancer research. Brianna Haley, the then 6-year-old daughter of former Dallas Cowboy football player Charles Haley, suffered from Leukemia and was in desperate need of a transplant, thus inspiring BOWL FOR LIFE. Brianna, now a young adult, is 100% cancer free because she received a cord blood transplant thanks to her baby brother. The NMDP registry has approximately 8 million potential bone marrow donors and 160,000 cord blood donors for people with blood cancers. Out of the over 8 million potential bone marrow and cord blood donors, minorities have a less than 30% chance of finding a lifesaving match. The NMDP states there is an urgent call for minority donors. COMPOSITION OF THE BE THE MATCH REGISTRY BY RACE AND ETHNICITY % OF POTENTIAL ADULT DONORS: African American or Black, 7%; American Indian/Alaska Native, 1%; Asian, 7%; Hispanic (Hispanic or Latino ethnicity), 10%; Multiple Race, 3%; Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, 1%.