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Start publicity campaign:
Articles in bulletin, newsletter, local newspaper, community
bulletin board, mass e-mail, etc. |
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Distribute Materials: Posters, flyers around your building, community, and neighboring businesses. |
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Blood Stars: Assign Blood Stars to recruit and sign-up donors; sign up sheets and donor pledge cards to captains. |
| Remind those not eligible to donate they can still assist the blood drive by helping to recruit donors. | |
| • | Begin active recruitment of donors: assign a call list to committee members (previous donor list, directory of members from Company, Office Complex, Church or Organization). |
| You will achieve best results through person to person contact; as in phone calls and sign up tables. | |
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| • | Continue making person-to-person contact – ASK for the donation! |
| • | If you are supplying refreshments - juice, coffee, water and something to eat should be available at the beginning of the drive. Very often, local businesses will donate refreshments for your drive! Just ask! |
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| • | Site confirmation: For inside the drive, confirm that the site will be available 1 ½ hours before Drive starts. Arrange for long tables and chairs to be available for donors and staff. For the self-contained unit (bus) Drives, have a plan to reserve 6 parking spaces. |
| • | Follow up with Press contacts. Do they need any more information to run a story? |
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the press if they would like to cover the event LIVE! Remember,
this is “Community News”! |
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| • | FAX a copy of your sign up sheet to your Blood Center representative at (609) 895-0373. |
| Your sign up sheet is very important! It is our last opportunity to make staffing changes. | |
| • | Finalize plans for Blood Drive Day and review this checklist for overlooked items. |
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| • | For inside drives, blood donation site should be clean, all unnecessary furniture removed, tables and chairs in place. |
| • | For the self-contained unit, confirm 6 parking spaces for the bus to park. |
| • | Provide for someone to be at the donor site to greet the Blood Center staff when they arrive. |
| Remind donors they must have eaten within four hours prior to donating and bring a signature I.D. with them. | |
| • | Remind all donors of their scheduled appointment. |
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