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Blood Drive at MIT...2/13 - 17; Emergency Shortage; Amazon Gift Card
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Blood Drive Coordinators)
Mon Feb 6 19:48:31 2017
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 19:46:26 -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 from Monday 2/13
through Friday 2/17, 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
to 1pm. All presenting donors at our February drive will be eligible to
receive a $5 Amazon.com Gift Card claim code by email.
Make an appointment (for faster service): http://web.mit.edu/blood-drive/www/
Volunteer: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16MgWN7kovjAJJMQ4u4wJ_ZzhEbWcIZCUe0dElQnv84A/edit#gid=0
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 November drive.
There will be a blood drive at MIT from Monday 2/13 through Friday 2/17,
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 to 1pm. All
presenting donors at our February drive will be eligible to receive a $5
Amazon.com Gift Card claim code by email.
Please use http://web.mit.edu/blood-drive/www/ to make an appointment
for faster service.
The Red Cross is reporting an emergency blood shortage, and donors of
all types are needed. Please make an appointment to donate, and
encourage your co-workers, neighbors, and friends to donate. Or,
encourage your enemies to donate just to watch them bleed. :-)
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:
* No strenuous exercise before or after donating. If you exercise
before donating, be sure to drink even more fluids to replace what you
lost during your work out.
* Prostate cancer surgery may require two - four 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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