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Blood Drive at MIT...11/21 and 22; try RapidPass it's faster
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Blood Drive Coordinators)
Sun Nov 13 12:04:49 2016
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 12:02:46 -0500
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 on Monday 9/21 and
Tuesday 11/22, in La Sala in the Student Center. The drive will run
from 8am to 6pm both days.
Make an appointment (for faster service): http://web.mit.edu/blood-drive/www/
Volunteer: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CtwZA-WRFACWI_04ekYrh9xCO6Sx5GinysPGtQpjRjo/edit#gid=0
Facebook (please share with your friends): https://www.facebook.com/events/1793779734244012/?notif_t=plan_user_joined¬if_id=1478970526350767
The Red Cross is offering an opportunity to complete the reading and
health questionnaire from the comfort of your home or office, which is
supposed to save you around 15 minutes at the drive itself. To do this,
visit http://www.redcrossblood.org/rapidpass, but be aware of several
caveats: 1) this *must* be done the same day as your donation 2) It
cannot be done from a phone, a desktop/laptop is required 3) You will
need to be able to show a copy of your form (either emailed to yourself,
or printed) at the drive 4) MIT's drives are located in zip code 02139
Hello,
Please allow me to begin by thanking everyone who took the time to
donate or volunteer at our September drive.
There will be a blood drive at MIT on Monday 11/19 and Tuesday 11/22,
in La Sala in the Student Center. The drive will run from 8am to 6pm
both days.
Please use http://web.mit.edu/blood-drive/www/ to make an appointment
for faster service.
We have a facebook event for this drive. Please take the time to share
it with your friends:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1793779734244012/?notif_t=plan_user_joined¬if_id=1478970526350767
As the holidays approach please help your friends give the gift of life,
and please help us keep the blood supply fully stocked, by sharing our
facebook event with your friends.
The Red Cross is offering an opportunity to complete the reading and
health questionnaire from the comfort of your home or office, which is
supposed to save you around 15 minutes at the drive itself. To do this,
visit http://www.redcrossblood.org/rapidpass, but be aware of several
caveats: 1) this *must* be done the same day as your donation 2) It
cannot be done from a phone, a desktop/laptop is required 3) You will
need to be able to show a copy of your form (either emailed to yourself,
or printed) at the drive 4) MIT's drives are located in zip code 02139
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:
* Meat, fish, sunflower seeds, and dark-green leafy vegetables are
all high in iron, and can be eaten on a regular basis to raise
your blood-iron level.
* Abdominal aortic aneurysm may require four - six 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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