Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 – Open to the public, kids welcome!
Radisson Expo Center, 700 Elm Street, Manchester
10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 – Corporate Challenge Day!
Radisson Expo Center, 700 Elm Street, Manchester
10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
REMEMBER: To be eligible to donate on August 24 or 25, you must have donated blood no later than 56 days prior to August 24.
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“Donating blood is a priceless act of generosity. What’s even better? It costs nothing but time to make a donation. I look forward to personally greeting each and every donor this August,” said Stephen Singer, president of Merchants Automotive Group and chairman of the Gail Singer Memorial Blood Drive Committee.
“Thank you to all of our sponsors, partners—and especially the donors—who continue to make this drive successful year after year,” he added. “My sister-in-law would be proud.” Stephen Singer
Did you know ....you are now eligible to donate blood at the age of 16? With parental/guardian permission (http://www.newenglandblood.org/nh/sixteen.htm), more and more high school students are helping to save lives! To thank New Hampshire’s youth for making a blood donation, all donors ages 16-18 will receive a free $10 iTunes gift card at the GSMBD!
FREE registration for those interested
in joining the National Marrow Donor Program will be
held in conjunction with this blood drive!
Gift of Life Bone Marrow
Foundation is a nonprofit organization that maintains a bone
marrow donor registry of over 160,000 potential volunteer
donors, and a public cord blood bank containing over 1,000
cord blood units. To date, Gift of Life has
facilitated over 2,100 transplants to patients suffering
from a host of genetic diseases, from leukemia to lymphoma,
who are in desperate need of life-saving transplants.
Gift of Life is North America’s
only registry whose original mission was to recruit donors
from within the Jewish community, in order to overcome the
devastating effects of family bloodlines severed during the
Holocaust, thereby leaving people today no other recourse
than to search the unrelated donor pool for a match.
Since tissue-type is inherited, like hair or eye color, a
patient’s best chance of finding a genetic match lies with
donors of similar ethnicity.
Realizing, however, that there
are so many patients of all backgrounds in
need of unrelated donors for life-saving transplants, Gift
of Life has expanded its mission and encourages everyone to
come out and join the registry! It is reported that
one in every 200 Americans will receive a transplant with
marrow, blood stem cells or cord blood in their lifetime.
One in 400 will require cells from an unrelated donor, as
only 30 percent have a relative who is a match. There
is an urgent need to grow the registry of potential donors
so that all patients have an equal opportunity to receive a
transplant.
Testing is fast and painless,
involving only a simple cheek swab.
Eligible donors must be between the ages of 18 – 60 and in
general good health. Gift of Life’s vision is simple –
a match anytime, anywhere, for anyone in need.
For
further information about Gift of Life Bone Marrow
Foundation please visit the website at www.giftoflife.org or
call 1-800-9MARROW.
Archive 2009
Press Releases
July 28,
2009-The 26th Annual Gail Singer Memorial Blood
Drive Only Weeks Away
New
England’s largest drive aims for 1,500 donors!
August 4,
2009-Local Businesses Challenge Others to Donate Blood
August 26
New
England’s largest drive aims for 1,500 donors!