If they're so desperate they can pay me for it.

Actually they can't, it's not legal. They could give you ice cream or movie tickets though, especially since each bag of blood nets them a few hundred dollars.

They often do give you ice cream coupons or movie tickets. There's also the good feeling of helping other human beings.

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Will this be a weekly item here?

Actually I'm a regular SBC donor and supportive of it. But the organization does seem to face some current issues besides recruitment, including staffing and donor relations. Just one of several recent examples: At last week's bloodmobile, they were turning away walk-in donors because they were avowedly understaffed, and when they called HQ for more personnel, none were available.

I am a fairly regular donor as well. I will make a trip in soon (I usually do a double red cell donation so I go in less often). Of course I mostly go to help people in need, though I do enjoy the every-other visit Baskin Robbins coupons :) (oh, and that POG juice is delicious..)

Just like to add my voice to the pro-donate side if you are eligible. Due to travel restrictions and risk for illnesses, most of the population in Silicon Valley are not eligible to donate. Of those who are eligible, fear, small veins and other personal issues keep people away. The only way for a patient (especially our local patients at Stanford and Packard Hospitals) to get a lifesaving blood transfusion is for generous people to donate a pint which is less than 1/10 of your total and easily replenished by your body in a few days.

This donation can help a mother of a newborn child to see that child grow and become an adult. It can help a child grow to become an adult. It works miracles in ways that no one could anticipate.

The biggest reason people give for not donating us because they weren't asked. Now you've been asked. Please help out if you can!!

Actually, it is illegal to pay blood donors in some countries, but not in the US. In the US, it is only required that blood products from paid donors be labeled as such.

But there are reasons to prefer volunteer donors over paid donors (other than the obvious benefit of not giving them cash). And the Stanford Blood Center does treat its volunteers well.

If they're so desperate they can change the laws and then pay me for it.

Very clever, closing the Mountain View center for renovations at the peak appeal time!

Donating blood is not just a generous feeling it can also be good for you. Whether it is SBC or another outlet it is really needed and easy