About Us


Villanova Head Football Coach Andy Talley started his non-profit foundation in 2010. However, Coach Talley’s involvement in providing opportunities to join the Be The Match Registry® began nearly two decades earlier in the fall of 1992 after becoming aware of the devastating odds facing those in need of bone marrow transplants.  Each year, 10,000 patients, diagnosed with life-threatening diseases such as leukemia or lymphoma, are in need of a bone marrow transplant, yet only half receive one. The chances of finding a matched, available donor are as low as 66% for some patients; 70% of patients have no suitable donor in their family. With access to ninety young, healthy football players, Coach Talley began his mission to educate and promote awareness about the importance of bone marrow donor registration by holding his first on-campus testing in the Jake Nevin field house at Villanova University.  Coach Talley and his team registered over 200 student athletes and coaching staff from the Villanova University community that fall.

Andy Talley, Bone Marrow | Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Washington, Baltimore
Coach Talley continued to organize registration drives over the ensuing years on the Villanova campus, tirelessly raising funds from independent donors to cover the cost of tissue-typing kits (which now consist solely of a cheek swab). Then, on one spring day in 2008, Coach Talley received a phone call from Be The Match®.  Be The Match wanted to partner with Coach Talley to expand his on-campus drive efforts.

In just three years, Coach Talley enlisted 29 other college football programs to lead and host their own on-campus donor drives each spring. The football players span the campus, recruiting people to take the cheek swab test, thereby registering themselves as potential bone marrow donors on the Be The Match Registry.  In 2010, the goal of Coach Talley's “Get in the Game, Save a Life” was to recruit 5,000 new registrants; that year “Get in the Game” added 8,800 new donors.

From his years of experience, Coach Talley looks forward to growing his foundation to foster further involvement with Be The Match.  In addition to hosting and promoting on-campus donor drives, the foundation will fundraise to cover the cost of adding new members to the Be The Match Registry, as the total cost to add a single new member is approximately $100. Finally, the foundation will raise funds to assist bone marrow transplant patients and their families during the transplant and recovery process. Supporting Be the Match is a multifaceted effort that begins with raising awareness and adding potential donors to the Be The Match Registry.

Our mission is:

  • To educate and promote awareness about the importance of joining the Be The Match Registry.
  • To support the “Get in the Game, Save a Life” initiative by organizing nationwide college campus opportunities to join the Be The Match Registry.
  • To organize and fund local opportunities to join the Be The Match Registry.
  • To lend financial assistance to bone marrow transplant patients and their families.

Mission Statement:

Adding Donors...Saving Lives...One Campus at a Time.


Call us at 610-401-7665 for more information.

Andy Talley Bone Marrow Foundation | Devon, PA

The Andy Talley Bone Marrow foundation provides opportunities to join the the Be The Match Registry® at college campuses nationwide, including Philadelphia, New York, Washington and Baltimore.