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Blood Drive at MIT...9/22 - 9/26; Red Sox raffle; Kabloom coupon
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Blood Drive Coordinators)
Sun Sep 14 11:46:28 2014
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 11:38:25 -0400
From: Blood Drive Coordinators <blood-drive-coordinators@mit.edu>
To: Blood Drive Announcements <blood-drive-request@mit.edu>
Executive Summary: There will be a blood drive at MIT from Monday 9/22
through Friday 9/26, in La Sala in the Student Center. The drive will
run from 1pm to 6pm every day except Tuesday when it will run from 8am -
1pm. All donors will be eligible to enter a raffle for Red Sox tickets,
and all donors with receive a coupon for Kabloom florists.
Please use http://web.mit.edu/blood-drive/www/ to make an appointment
for faster service.
Hello,
Please allow me to begin by thanking everyone who took the time to
donate or volunteer at our May drive. Unfortunately we were only able
to collect 166 units of blood. On behalf of the Red Cross, thank you
for saving lives, but now that everyone is back on campus we should be
able to do better.
There will be a blood drive at MIT from Monday 9/22
through Friday 9/26, in La Sala in the Student Center. The drive will
run from 1pm to 6pm every day except Tuesday when it will run from 8am -
1pm. All donors will be eligible to enter a raffle for Red Sox tickets,
and all donors with receive a coupon for Kabloom florists. Please use
http://web.mit.edu/blood-drive/www/ to make an appointment for faster
service.
When you come in to donate (of course you're coming, right?) please
consider bringing a friend along. Word of mouth is one of the best ways
to get new donors, and we need them.
The Red Cross relies on appointments to decide how many staff to
provide on a given day. Making appointments will decrease your wait,
and make the drive run faster as a whole (even if you can only tell us
what day you want to donate, and not what time during the day.) To make
an appointment, fill out the form at:
http://web.mit.edu/blood-drive/www/
If you cannot make an appointment please feel free to come to the
drive and donate anyway.
We can always use more volunteers to help out during the drive to get
people registered quickly and take some of the pressure off the Red
Cross workers. Even if you can't donate blood, you're encouraged to
donate some of your time to the drive. Some of the services that
volunteers may perform are registering donors, staffing the canteen,
and providing moral support to the donors. No previous experience is
necessary to volunteer. All these efforts are important to the
drive's success. To volunteer, send e-mail to
blood-drive-coordinators@mit.edu, and someone will reply to you
shortly before the drive starts.
Blood Donation Factoids:
* Be sure to eat! Don't skip breakfast or lunch on the day of your
blood donation. Your body will need extra energy to donate a pint
of blood. You will also feel better after donating if you have
eaten a meal a few hours before.
* A kidney transplant patient, on average, will need one to two
units of red blood cells.
If you want to forward this message, feel free as long as you are
sending it to a friend, or to a list for which it is appropriate. In
other words, feel free to forward, but please don't spam people on our
behalf. If anyone wants to get on our mailing list they can check the
appropriate box when making an appointment, or fill out the form at
http://web.mit.edu/blood-drive/www/email.html
+ The MIT Blood Drive Coordinators
If you wish to be added or removed from any of the blood drive lists,
please send an email request to blood-drive-request@mit.edu only.
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