Happy Holidays from our family to yours
This holiday season, we’re grateful for your unwavering support — your generosity and community spirit — that fuels our life-saving mission at San Diego Blood Bank!
In December we honored our amazing volunteers at our annual appreciation event and we danced the night away. Our centers and staff are festively dressed, embracing the holiday giving spirit, and we are enjoying the wonderful smiles from all of our donors.
Thank you for your dedication and generosity. Together, we are making a significant difference in the lives of many, providing hope and healing to the community.
However you celebrate the holiday season, we wish you good health and joy!
In gratitude,
Your Blood Bank Family
Blood Supply Needs
Blood Types A-, B-, and O's are in high demand.
News
New Bloodmobile is 82% Funded
National Philanthropy Day (Nov 15) and Giving Tuesday (Dec 3) inspired many supporters to invest in our capital campaign.
Thank you to more than 300 individual financial donors and generous foundation donors, who have helped us meet the $100,000 matching challenge donated by San Diego Self Storage and Managing Partner, Anthony R. Carr! We are grateful to our community for their continued support to help us continue our mission to save lives. While we have met this goal, gifts are still needed to complete the funding for the bloodmobile.
It’s not too late to make your year-end, tax-deductible gift to San Diego Blood Bank! Make a Gift Today!
Your donation will support our greatest need—a new bloodmobile!
Annual Volunteer Appreciation Event Honors Achievements in Service
Staff, Volunteers, and community members joined together to celebrate and appreciate our amazing volunteers! The Western-themed event had everyone two-stepping on the dance floor and enjoying great food and company.
Join us in recognizing this year’s award winners!
Presidential Lifetime Award 2024
Rick P. was honored for reaching an incredible 4,192 volunteer hours with San Diego Blood Bank!
2024 Gold Award Winners included Mae G. (1,058 hours) and William B. (541.25 hours).
13 Volunteers and 1 Volunteer Group earned SILVER & 34 Volunteers earned BRONZE 2024 Achievement Awards.
Congratulations and THANK YOU for saving lives with us.
Grand Opening Month at Clairemont Mesa in January
Donate blood in January at Clairemont Mesa to help us celebrate the Grand Opening and receive a special surprise.
Shout out to Nathan, our very first donor at the Clairemont location in November. Pictured also, are Rayan, Clairemont Manager, and CEO, Douglas Morton, Troy Jennings, Director of Plant Ops, and Leslie Eagan, VP of Donor Services, on opening day Nov. 19, 2024.
Winter Wishes Bears Comfort Patients at Sharp Grossmont
Guardians Circle members, financial donors, and our hospital services team made the holidays bright in support of our annual Winter Wishes tradition.
Each year we gather staff, a member of our Guardians Circle, volunteers, and together with our partner Grossmont Healthcare District, hand-deliver Winter Wishes Bears to patients at Sharp Grossmont Hospital. This treasured annual event provides comfort and smiles to all involved while filling the hospital and our hearts with festive cheer.
Holiday Food Drive Accepting Donations Through Dec 31
Don’t forget to bring your non-perishable and canned food items to any San Diego County donation location to be included in our Holiday Food Drive to aid food-insecure families this holiday season in partnership with Jacobs and Cushman San Diego Food Bank.
Just look for the red bins. Thank you.
Shop Kendra Scott December 21 & 22 - 20% Will Be Donated Back to SDBB
Looking for some sparkly gifts this holiday season? Shop Kendra Scott and support San Diego Blood Bank at the same time. Shop in-store on Saturday or all weekend long online and 20% of your purchase is donated back to support our blood collection program! Thank you!
Last Chance
DONATE BLOOD & FEED LOCAL FAMILIES
Don’t forget to bring your non-perishable and canned food items your donation to any San Diego County donation location to be included in our Holiday Food Drive to aid food-insecure families this holiday season in partnership with Jacobs and Cushman San Diego Food Bank. Just look for the red bins. Thank you.
Mark Your Calendar
CLOSED FOR CHRISTMAS DAY AND NEW YEAR’S DAY!
We hope you enjoy the holidays! All locations will be closed on December 25 and January 1.
Click here to see all Special Holiday Hours including Christmas Eve (December 24).
PROMOTION: DECEMBER 21 -31
It’s BACK! Holiday blood donors will sip in style with an exclusive 40 oz. Travel Mug!
*Travel Mugs are limited to donors who give at any location or blood drive 12/21-12/31 ONLY, while supplies last.
EVENT: DECEMBER 28 - 31
Donate blood at the San Diego International Auto Show! Get an exclusive T-shirt* and 40 oz. Travel Mug** for saving lives.
*T-shirts are limited to donors who give 12/28-12/31 ONLY at the SD Auto Show Blood Drive, while sizes and supplies last.
**Travel Mugs are limited to donors who give at any location or blood drive 12/21-12/31 ONLY, while supplies last.
CELEBRATE: JANUARY 1 - 31
January is National Blood Donor Month! Every 2 seconds, someone in the U.S. needs a blood transfusion. With over 42,000 units of blood components given daily, let’s celebrate the 7 million annual blood donors this National Blood Donor Month!
Tune in to social media to see how we’re appreciating donors all month long and inspiring new donors to make donating regularly, a life-saving habit.
EVENT: JANUARY 21
Join us for the 3rd Annual Padres Winter Blood Drive which will be held in Gallagher Square at Petco Park on January 21, 2025, from 9:00 am – 6:00 pm.
Donors will receive a limited-edition blood drive T-shirt, while sizes and supplies last!
Guardians Circle
Congrats to the lucky Guardians who got their Holiday Wish granted! All Guardians were given the opportunity to make a holiday wish and we granted five (5) wishes up to a $500 value including tickets to Disneyland for one lucky Guardian.
The next Guardians opportunity is the Choice Rewards. This will be emailed in January and include choices of a variety of e-gift codes or to donate back towards our mission to save lives.
Not a Guardians Circle member yet?
Learn more about our donor programs and join over 12,000 Guardians in protecting your community’s health.
Featured Supporters: The Harvey Family
"Amidst the chaotic anxiety and unknowns of a child diagnosed with a chronic disease, knowing the San Diego Blood Bank will be there for my child brings a reassuring sense of calm, peace, and tranquility."
Michelle, Mason, and Jason Harvey are grateful for every donor and San Diego Blood Bank supporter who together help to ensure blood is on the shelves. An emergency blood transfusion helped keep Mason alive before it was discovered he had Crohn’s Disease.
To give back this holiday season, the Harvey’s recently collected food donations from friends and family to make a generous in-kind donation of snacks for our Vista and Gateway donor canteens. They also shared some homemade cookies with our staff.
Thank you so much to the Harvey Family for sharing your generosity and for supporting our life-saving mission.
Patients like Mason who battle IBD, Crohn’s, and the many forms of ulcerative colitis, are also some of the patients who rely on the kindness of volunteer blood donors.
Mason continues to work toward remission as he navigates treatment for this chronic illness and encourages everyone he knows to donate blood and help others.
"I will never forget my son’s first blood transfusion. I remember my mind and heart racing with fear, questions, and, most of all, hope. When the blood bag from the San Diego Blood Bank was placed on the IV stand and that generously donated blood was started, I began to see the change in my son’s face. His cheeks warmed to a healthy pink, and there was an upturned, peaceful smile as he slept. This was the salve that all of our scared and aching hearts needed."
December Newsletter 2024
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