Hawaii Cord Blood Bank

10/17/2025

🌎World Cord Blood Day is November 17, 2025! 💙

Join this free global event and discover the incredible power of cord blood in saving lives and advancing medicine. This year’s program will highlight the importance of newborn screening and cord blood treatment for Krabbe Disease, research on potential low-cost cancer therapies, and breakthroughs in Cerebral Palsy treatment.

Don’t miss your chance to hear from experts and learn why cord blood is shaping the future of healthcare.

Register for free and be a part of the movement: https://www.worldcordbloodday.org

Need some joy? Want to find your happy place? Join the cord blood movement & keep hope alive for those fighting leukemia, lymphoma, Krabbe Disease and more. Cord blood is critical in the treatment of 80+ diseases. Yet, so few people know about it.

Help us get this good news to the people who need it most. Watch the virtual conference (free), meet patients who have benefited, learn directly from the experts, and share what you learn with your friends & family. Let's get excited about the future together!

2025 is NOV 17th -- Register FREE now
https://www.worldcordbloodday.org/

09/02/2025

🤙 September is Give Aloha month! 🌺

This year, Hawaiʻi Cord Blood Bank (HCBB) is excited to participate in , Foodland's Annual Community Matching Gifts program! Starting today, September 1st thru September 30th, you can support by making a donation at any Foodland, Sack N Save, or Foodland Farms store. Your support will help our day-to-day collection, processing operations and improve our community outreach efforts.

How to donate:
🍍 1. Enter your Maikaʻi phone number/present your Maikaʻi card.
🥬 2. Provide our code: #79028 and the amount of your donation.
🍓 3. Review your receipt to confirm the organization name and donation amount is correct.

100% of your gift will go directly to our organization and will match a portion of your contribution.

Mahalo for helping us make a difference! 🤝

Please visit our website for more info: https://www.hcbb.org

10/15/2024

World Cord Blood Day is one month away on November 15th! Discover the power of cord blood stem cells at this free virtual event.

World Cord Blood Day is organized & hosted ​by ​Save the Cord Foundation (a 501c3 non-profit), which promotes awareness of the life-saving benefits of cord blood based on unbiased and factual information.

World Cord Blood Day 2024 Official Virtual Conference

09/16/2024

September is blood cancer awareness month. Umbilical cord blood contains blood rich in blood stem cells that have the power to help treat blood cancers and disorders.

Learn more about donating your baby's cord blood to help save a life here:

Cord blood contains the same kind of special cells as bone marrow, and like bone marrow, has been used in transplants to cure patients with otherwise fatal diseases. The Hawai'i Cord Blood Bank is a non-profit organization whose mission is to help save the lives of patients in need of such transplan...

08/12/2024

Lucy is a high-spirited 7-year-old who enjoys reading, ballet and riding her bike. At 6 months old, she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). A cord blood transplant was the life-saving treatment Lucy needed and now she can celebrate every milestone, both big and small thanks to the mother who donated cord blood.

Learn about the power of umbilical cord blood:

Discover the power of umbilical cord blood, why donation is important and how you help a patient receive a cure for a life-threatening blood cancer or blood disease.

07/24/2024

Listen to Jakob's story and the importance of diversity in cord blood!

07/08/2024

July is Cord Blood Awareness Month! We are grateful to all those who donate their cord blood, the OBs and RNs who collect the cord blood for donation, and our generous monetary donors.

Cord blood contains the same kind of special cells as bone marrow, and like bone marrow, has been used in transplants to cure patients with otherwise fatal diseases. The Hawai'i Cord Blood Bank is a non-profit organization whose mission is to help save the lives of patients in need of such transplan...

06/25/2024

When Kristin Kleinhofer's acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) returned, she picked a mantra, a quote by Christopher Reeve: "Once you choose hope, anything's possible." It's this hope, along with the decision made by two families to donate their babies' cord blood and the generosity of more than 90 blood donors, that powers Kristin today.

Listen to this story from Northwest :
https://www.buzzsprout.com/775991/15021630-choosing-hope-kristin-s-blood-cancer-story-s5-e30

05/12/2024

Thank you to the mothers that chose to donate their baby’s umbilical cord blood to help save a life.

04/23/2024

This Earth Day, make a difference by donating your baby's umbilical cord blood. By doing so, you can help save a life and make a positive impact on the world!

03/20/2024

A great listen if you have some time for this podcast. Featured is Eseosa (Sosa) as she tells her story involving sickle cell, blood transfusions, stem cell transplant, cord blood, and more.

Are you an "open book"? Can people tell how tired you are or what kind of day you've had just by the look in your eye?  Well, there's a young woman in North Carolina named Eseosa Evbuomwan who says that she, "does not look like what she's bee...

02/19/2024

Cord blood has so many uses! Exciting to see this news from San Diego:

🌟 Exciting Update 🌟 A cord blood unit from San Diego Blood Bank is now helping an infant fight CGD, a rare disorder. Our Cord Blood program's commitment to genetic diversity is making a real difference! 🩸💪