1. ANJNA PATIENT EDUCATION
Anjna Patient Education (www.anjna.org) is a Stanford-based nonprofit organization with over
200 volunteers nationwide. Anjna stands for A New Joint Nonprofit Approach to Patient
Education. We are proud to be the first nonprofit to specifically target free clinics for the purpose
of reaching out to underserved patients. Our project seeks to break the cycle of chronic disease
by educating and empowering patients in free clinics to take a stand against these preventable
diseases with good nutrition, diet, and lifestyle changes. Since our founding in January 2010, we
have received grants and awards from the Ashoka foundation, the Institute for the Future, the
Dalai Lama Foundation, Youth Service America, and DoSomething.org amongst others. We are
currently established in several free clinics in the bay area, including Schuman-Liles clinic in
Oakland and Clinic by the Bay in San Franscisco.
If you would like to get more involved (we are looking for volunteers as well as potential chapter
co-founders), please email a cover letter to vineet@anjna.org
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND CHEEKS
You probably know that Leukemia is a form of cancer of the blood or bone marrow. You might
know that bone marrow transplants are a form of treatment. But did you know that certain
populations are dramatically under-represented in existing bone marrow registries? The story
that gave rise to this effort is that of Sameer Bhatia, a Stanford undergrad-turned-entrepreneur.
Because of this story (and, sadly, many others), the Haas Center is working with Professor
Jennifer Aaker and a team of student advisors to develop a large-scale bone marrow registrant
drive.One Hundred Thousand Cheeks is a Stanford-based student group dedicated to getting
100,000 people signed up for with the national bone marrow donor registry by June 2012.
Specifically, we seek to address the severe shortage of South Asian donors in the registry, as
there is a meager 1 in 20,000 chance for a potential South Asian recipient to find a match.
To design and execute the effort, we will also be working with OpenIDEO, a crowd-sourcing
platform dedicated to the generation of solutions to social issues (and a project of the world-
renowned design company IDEO). This collaboration will allow us to tap a community of
designers to solve the issue of donor diversification and to help improve the lives of cancer
patients.
If you would like to get more involved with 100kcheeks, please email 100kcheeks@gmail.com
Get swabbed. bit.ly/swabacheek
Run a drive. bit.ly/cheekskit
Solve the problem. bit.ly/oi-bonemarrow
Learn more. bit.ly/haas100k