Partners

OpenIDEO Collaboration

With the help of a Social Innovation Generation grant from California Campus Compact and the generosity of individual donors, 100K Cheeks is partering with OpenIDEO, an online platform that aims to utilize the ingenuity of IDEO design thinking and community action to solve a social challenge. When a challenge is posted at OpenIDEO.com, the three development phases—inspiration, concepting, and evaluation—are put into motion. Between each development phase, IDEO helps shape the journey through framing the challenge, prototyping, and encouraging the conversation.

OpenIDEO will be working directly with the team to design the challenge in such a way as to help engage the community in addressing marrow donor diversification.

Community Partnerships

Once the OpenIDEOchallenge is completed, 100K Cheeks will collaborate with numerous key stakeholders, including local high schools, colleges/universities, Stanford’s vast network of student groups, and local companies. Our strategy is to rely on powerful storytelling to engage others’ emotions and fuel infectious actions, while tapping into the existing resources for marrow donation, such as the kits provided by Be the Match.  

Our community partners include:

• Anjna Patient Education
• Cure Rayan
• Cure Sonia
• The INK Conference
• Seedwell Video Production and Digital Media
• Save Samir
• Save Sanjana
• TEDxTampaBay

Our Stanford partners include:

• Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS)
• Center for Social Innovation at the Graduate School of Business
• Stanford Alumni Association
• Stanford Blood Center
• Stanford d.school
• Stanford Relay for Life
• Yes+ at Stanford

Corporate Partners

Thank you to the following companies who have run bone marrow drives associated with 100K Cheeks talks and events:

• Accenture
• Adobe
• Bain & Company
• Cisco Systems

Collective Benefit

Due to shortages in volunteers caused by the economic downturn for charitable organizations such as Be the Match, venues for fresh volunteers are in high demand. Unfortunately, this decline in volunteers is a reflection of the general decline in resources felt by nonprofit organizations in the wake of the nation’s economic downturn.

As a result, by hosting drives and providing the volunteers, we will be able to offer a cost-effective means to advance the collective goal of our community partners to help save lives. Additionally, for colleges and high schools, the service projects provide students a chance to engage serious real-world issues and develop leadership skills that will be valuable in any number of future careers.

We gratefully acknowledge California Campus Compact and the Corporation for National and Community Service, Learn and Serve American, for their significant support in making this program possible.