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The Icla da Sila Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded in 1992 and based in New York City. The organization was founded after Icla da Silva, a young girl from Brazil lost her battle with leukemia. In her memory, her family created the Foundation to help add bone marrow donors to the Be the Match Registry, and support patients with leukemia and other diseases treatable by a bone marrow transplant.

The Icla da Silva Foundation is the largest recruitment center in the United States for the Be the Match Registry, which is the National Marrow Donor Program. Ever year the Foundation recruits over 45,000 people to join the Registry.