Donate at Stanford Blood Center and have a TREE planted in your honor

Throughout April, Stanford Blood Center (SBC) is celebrating a renewed commitment to the environment and providing easy ways for our donors to help the planet, too!For each donation made in April, SBC will be planting one tree in Uganda as part of a Forestmatic reforestation project in the country. Uganda has lost more than half of its forest land in the past 30 years, so this is a great way to save lives through blood donation, and to support the rebuilding of native ecosystems. Plus, donors will receive a unique tree ID for each donation, which will allow them to find their tree online and watch it grow!

But it doesn’t stop there! SBC is partnering with the Sierra Club – Loma Prieta chapter as part of our Donate Your Points Back/Give Good Program, where donors can choose to direct their loyalty store points to a community partner. At the end of the fiscal year, SBC will add up the donated points and make a financial contribution to help support this local non-profit organization.

SBC is also making a lasting commitment to sustainability by introducing new eco-friendly and locally sourced items into our Donor Loyalty (rewards) Store, and by reducing our use of paper in favor of electronic forms of communication — including through our new SBC App! As an extra thanks for those who are supporting this effort, we’ll be giving a free eco-friendly Nimble wireless phone charger to each person who both uses the app AND registers to donate during April as well.

Learn more at stanfordbloodcenter.org/green-donor. You can make an appointment to donate at stanfordbloodcenter.org or by calling 888-723-7831.