By Kristin Stankus, Digital community and social media specialist Each winter, blood centers struggle to maintain adequate supplies of blood products to meet patient needs. With the holidays come travels plans, festive engagements, and the flu, which often cause significant...
By Julie Peachey There are many reasons people are motivated to become blood donors. Perhaps a loved one needed blood for survival or maybe a friend encouraged you to come with them once and it became a habit. Whatever the...
By Kristin Stankus, digital community and social media specialist Who is BayKids Studios? Lights, Camera, Healing…that is the motto of San Francisco based BayKids Studios, our 2014 Give Good campaign partner. Stanford Blood Center (SBC) is so excited to work...
In the Merriam-Webster dictionary, altruism is defined as feelings and behavior that show a desire to help other people and a lack of selfishness. Every day, donors walk through the doors at Stanford Blood Center (SBC) that exhibit this quality....
By Kristin Stankus This August, Stanford Blood Center (SBC) will launch its first ever Choose Your Getaway campaign! Summers are meant for fun in the sun and vacations but they are also a critical time for blood centers as donations...
By Julie Peachey The summer season is historically challenging for blood centers in keeping a sufficient inventory of blood on the shelves. Donations dwindle in large part due to travel, but in addition, we take a hit with high schools...
By Julie Peachey Touring around the community hosting blood drives at various locations and giving away tie dye t-shirts was a concept that came out of a blood bank conference. We decided to give this “Grateful Life Tour” a try,...
By Julie Peachey Previously this winter, we partnered with Humane Society Silicon Valley (HSSV) for our inaugural Give Good campaign. If you were one of the 3,224 donors that visited during the three-week run of the...
In 2014, we partnered with BayKids Studios, whose mission is to help children facing long-term hospitalization heal through the power of filmmaking. Devora Kanter Kothari, executive director at BayKids Studios, said, “On behalf of all our filmmakers and their families,...
We’re in the final stretch of the Stanford Blood Center (SBC) Give Good campaign, which ends Sunday, January 12. Please consider donating if you can! You’ll extend the impact of your blood donation, because for each donor who rolls up...