Lifesaving Commerce
Katharina Harf's management savvy and some celebrity assists help her nonprofit donor center perform like a business.
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Katharina Harf Photo© Natalie Brasington |
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Number of DKMS-registered donors internationally since 1991: 2.2 million Number of DKMS-facilitated transplants internationally since 1991: 22,000 |
Katharina Harf's biggest heartbreak occurred when she was a 14-year-old living in Frankfurt, Germany. Her mother, Mechtild, had been diagnosed the previous year with acute leukemia. Despite Mechtild's six siblings and the roughly 3,000 registered bone marrow donors in Germany at the time, none was a match for a transplant. Harf's mother died in 1991.
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