Honoring Every Donor, Every Drop: World Blood Donor Day 2025
Each year on June 14, the world unites to recognize World Blood Donor Day—a moment to raise awareness of the life-saving power of blood donations and thank those who give from the heart.
In 2025, San Diego Blood Bank is proud to celebrate this important day as part of our 75th Anniversary, honoring our heroes — all of the blood donors who’ve chosen to save lives with us since 1950.
Every single donor who walks through our center doors or makes time to give at a blood drive in the community gives a precious gift. Every donation changes the lives of people in our region.
A Life-saving Tradition, 75 Years in the Making
From local hospitals to frontline emergency care, the need for blood never stops. Blood and its components are vital for surgeries, trauma care, childbirth-related complications, cancer treatments, autoimmune conditions, and so much more. Every two seconds, someone, somewhere needs blood—and every donation helps ensure it’s available on hospital shelves when it’s needed most.
And blood donors are the connection to healing, recovery, and survival.
“World Blood Donor Day gives us an opportunity to thank our many local donors who give the gift of life and to encourage others to start donating. We encourage people in good health to donate blood regularly and as often as is safe and possible to provide quality of life for patients who depend on transfusions.” —Douglas Morton, CEO, San Diego Blood Bank
It Takes All Types to Make a Difference: A More Inclusive Future Starts with You
Your blood type could be the perfect match for a patient fighting sickle cell disease, leukemia, or undergoing a complex transplant.
Every donor brings a gift that only they can give. That’s why we need people of all backgrounds, communities, and identities to step forward. Our diverse Southern California population requires diverse volunteer donors to donate blood regularly.
We encourage our community to learn more about blood donation and become blood donors to help prevent regional and national blood shortages.
If every blood donor donated just one more time each year our hospital needs could be met. But, our region still needs more new and returning volunteer donors to step up to give and become the next generation of lifesavers for our community.
Every donation tells a story of healing—and your story matters. And every donor who walks through our door is a hero ensuring up to 3 more lives can be saved,
This World Blood Donor Day, take the time to thank a donor in the community and make time to give blood this month at any donor center or mobile blood drive through June 30, 2025, and get a limited-edition T-shirt, while sizes and supplies last.
Ready to Save Lives?
Schedule your next visit online or call (619) 400-8251 to connect with our team. While walk-ins are always welcome, appointments help us ensure we meet urgent patient needs across the region.
Whether it’s your first donation or your fortieth, this is the perfect moment to give—and score a limited-edition T-shirt, while sizes and supplies last.
For San Diego blood donors in San Diego County, donate blood and get a limited-edition Summer Blood Drive T-shirt*. For So Cal blood donors in Orange County and Los Angeles, donate blood and get a limited-edition Summer Blood Donor T-shirt*
📬 Have questions? We’re here to help. Call us at (619) 400-8251 or email donorservices@sdbb.org.
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Together, we save lives. Together, we celebrate 75 years of hope.
Throughout 2025, we’re celebrating 75 years of saving lives together and showing our appreciation to donors with special gifts.
Our Guardians Circle Donor Pledge Program is honoring members throughout 2025 with exclusive appreciation gifts for reaching donation milestones in 2025. With each gift, we share our appreciation for an extraordinary commitment to saving lives.
Guardians will unlock 75th Anniversary rewards when they donate 3, 5, 10*, 16*, and 20* times in 2025. Not a Guardian? Join Now!
👉 Stay updated and preview milestone gifts at sandiegobloodbank.org/gc75
