Your Stool Can Save Lives

OpenBiome, a nonprofit stool bank, is looking for healthy volunteers to provide life-saving treatment for people with Clostridioides difficile infections. We reimburse donors $40 per stool donation as compensation for their time and effort. A typical OpenBiome stool donor makes $250 a month.

As a stool donor, you can help fulfill an urgent public health need. Each year, half a million people in the United States contract C. difficile with 30,000 dying from the infection or related causes. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has classified C. difficile an urgent antibiotic-resistant threat to human health.

Using your stool, OpenBiome manufactures fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) preparations—a promising medical treatment for C. difficile infections. Where antibiotics fail, FMT using donor stool has resolved 80-90% of infections in randomized, controlled clinical trials.

OpenBiome’s COVID-19 Policy: During this public health emergency, doctors and patients need stool donors like you more than ever. To protect prospective donors and OpenBiome staff from COVID-19, we have implemented new safety protocols and are here to answer any questions or concerns that you may have.

Becoming a Stool Donor:

OpenBiome rigorously screens prospective donors to ensure that they meet the qualifications for donating stool.

The slideshow below will take you through the four-step process to becoming a stool donor: