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- 1. Find Your Donors: Circulate a sign-up sheet throughout your church, school, or organization asking people to commit to donating blood once a blood drive is set-up. By finding donors now, it will make recruiting easier once the blood drive is booked.
- 2. Book Your Blood Drive – Once you know how many interested blood donors you have it will be easy to set a date, time and location based on the size of your committed donor list. This step is very important, a goal for your blood drive will be set and in turn that number is what we count on for staffing and calculating our inventories.
- 3. Promote and Recruit – Cascade Regional Blood Services will provide all the promotional materials you need to market your blood drive. Start with hanging the flyers, call your committed donors to sign-up and ask other individuals one-on-one to donate blood. We will ask and/or call you for your sign-up count several days before the blood drive. So, assign a contact person to work with your Blood Drive Consultant.
- 4. Organize Volunteers – Be available, or assign a designee to be available the day of the blood drive to help guide and answer any questions the Donor Collections staff might have. You may also have or want to coordinate volunteers to help with recruiting, calling and the cookies and juice table.
- 5. Recognize the Donors – After each donor donates he/she will receive a small thank you gift. We will also send you a list of donor names for your files or to post. Blood Donors are heroes. Their one donation can save up to three patients. Please remind them that they can donate blood every 56 days.
When people can’t donate blood, volunteering is a great way to still be involved.
- Registration Volunteers: Greet and help check people off the sign-up sheet and explain the donation process.
- Canteen Volunteers: Help give cookies and juice to donors who just donated. Cascade Regional Blood Services will provide all the cookies and juice needed for the blood drive.
- Recruitment and Promotion Volunteers: Hang and distribute flyers, set-up sign-up booths during high traffic times like lunch breaks. Volunteers can also make the reminder phone calls for those who have signed-up.
- Make presentations and announcements to organizational leaders and groups and during assemblies.
- Post flyers with details about the blood drive.
- Develop a theme or a special event around the drive, or create a special donor incentive.
- Promote the blood drive in your internal publications.
- Place table tents in meeting rooms, use paycheck stuffers, and set-up a sign-up booth or table in a highly visible area, two weeks prior to the drive.
- Use phone calls or e-mail to recruit and remind donors.
Say, “Thank you on behalf of the ten’s of thousands of blood recipients!”
Tips to say thank you:
- Take pictures (with written donor consent) and make a bulletin board or post on your website.
- Write thank you notes, and publish a special thank you in your internal publications.
- Nothing is more effective than recruiting face-to-face.
- Provide information about the blood drive and ways they can help.
- Be prepared to answer questions about donor eligibility and refer questions to a donor specialist at Cascade Regional Blood Services at 1-877-24-BLOOD.
- Inform people that each year, 4.5 million people receive life saving blood transfusions nationally. Locally, their donation goes directly to area hospitals to transfuse patients that could be friends, family or neighbors.
- Have volunteers help with the one-on-one recruitment.
Organize a phone call or e-mail effort.
- Ask your organization’s Principal, CEO, or Pastor to support the blood drive with a letter or an announcement.
- Encourage donors to bring a friend, relative, or neighbor with them to donate, and join our Blood Buddy Program.
- Drink lots of fluids, eat a healthy meal before you donate and avoid caffeinated products.
- Donors must complete our Health History examination and donor screening.
- Donors will receive a mini physical consisting of blood pressure, pulse, temperature, and iron level checks.
- Relax during the donation process.
- Enjoy cookies and juice after you donate.
- The entire process takes approximately 40-50 minutes.
Your place of business can help save lives. By holding blood drives at your location, you can make blood donations convenient and provide essential support to your community.
Most of us will need a blood transfusion at some point in our lives. That means that you, your family and your peers will need the support of volunteer blood donors. By sponsoring a blood drive at your work site, you and your group can help save lives.
To find out more about scheduling a blood drive, call:
Copyright 2005 Cascade Regional Blood Services
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