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Blood Drive at MIT...6/20 - 6/24; try RapidPass it's faster; Red Sox
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Blood Drive Coordinators)
Thu Jun 16 20:01:03 2016
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 19:59:09 -0400
From: Blood Drive Coordinators <blood-drive-coordinators@mit.edu>
To: Blood Drive Announcements <blood-drive-request@mit.edu>
I wanted to remind everyone that there is a blood drive at MIT next
week. Donations are needed to bolster small summer supplies, and there
are plenty of appointments available: http://web.mit.edu/blood-drive/www/
We're also looking for volunteers to help during the drive:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BmGxkqNrBakvQ-UHzicp0F9nWGykL7LL_dhCqbt-ihE/edit?pref=2&pli=1
Finally all donors at this drive will be eligible to enter a raffle to
be the blood drive door of the game.
Jonathon
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Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 13:12:48 -0400
From: Blood Drive Coordinators <blood-drive-coordinators@mit.edu>
To: Blood Drive Announcements <blood-drive-request@mit.edu>
Subject: Blood Drive at MIT...6/20 - 6/24; try RapidPass it's faster
Executive Summary: There will be a blood drive at MIT on Monday 6/20
through Friday 6/24, in La Sala in the Student Center. The drive will
run from 1pm to 6pm every day but Tuesday, when it will run from 8am to
1pm.
Please use http://web.mit.edu/blood-drive/www/ to make an appointment
for faster service.
The Red Cross is already seeing a drop in the blood supply as fewer
people donate over the summer. Please take the time to save a life or
three by donating blood.
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 April drive.
There will be a blood drive at MIT on Monday 6/20 through Friday 6/24,
in La Sala in the Student Center. The drive will run from 1pm to 6pm
every day but Tuesday, when it will run from 8am to 1pm.
Please use http://web.mit.edu/blood-drive/www/ to make an appointment
for faster service.
The Red Cross is already seeing a drop in the blood supply as fewer
people donate of the summer (much of the blood supply in our area comes
from high school and college blood drives), and more injuries due to
out-door activities create an increased demand. Please take the time to
save a life or three (each pint of donated blood can help up to three
people) by donating blood.
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:
* Drink extra fluids before your donation. You can begin to drink extra
fluids the day before your donation. Water and juices are great, but
try to avoid a lot of caffeine.
* A leukemia patient may need two - six units of red blood cells and
six - eight units of platelets (or one - two units of apheresis
platelets) daily for two - four weeks.
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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