1.   Albert Ruesga works to build relationships between minority donors and foundations as the director of New Ventures in Philanthropy, an initiative of the forum.

2.   But they do, and the donor program has been working steadily in the past several years to register more minority potential donors.

3.   Minority donors in particular are needed because of a shortfall of minority matches.

4.   Minorities across the board continue to struggle against greater odds in finding bone marrow matches than the general population because of the lack of minority donors nationwide.

5.   Otherwise, families such as the Haleys learn about the lack of minority donors the hard way.

6.   Some blood banks have started recruiting bilingual nurses, although they have found most minority donors speak English.

7.   The hunt has propelled the former Cowboy back into the public eye and brought renewed attention to the nationwide need for more minority marrow donors.

8.   Woods, an African-American, said the number of minority donors had risen, thanks to well-publicized cases like that of baseball player Rod Carew.