Partners

The American Red Cross plays a critical role in our Nation’s health care system. It is the largest single supplier of blood and blood products in the United States, collecting and processing more than 40 percent of the blood supply and distributing it to some 3,000 hospitals and transfusion centers nationwide..

Puget Sound Blood Center was established in 1944, combining Western Washington’s community-based blood bank with an integrated Research Institute. The Blood Center operates the world’s largest centralized transfusion service, serving patients in more than 70 hospitals and clinics and providing tissue and transplantation support to 185 hospitals across the U.S. Pacific Northwest.

Founded in 1962, America’s Blood Centers is North America’s network of non-profit community blood centers. Located in 45 U.S. states and Quebec, Canada, America’s Blood Centers’ Members operate more than 600 donor centers and provide blood products and services to more than 3,500 hospitals and healthcare facilities across North America.

Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center began operations on Jan. 1, 1975. Serving the largest medical campus in the world, The Blood Center has grown to more than 700 employees and serves more than 170 hospitals and health care institutions in the 26-county Texas Gulf Coast, Brazos Valley and East Texas regions. To meet the needs of the area community, The Blood Center must collect more than 1,000 donations every day. That is why The Blood Center encourages individuals to Commit for Life, which is a partnership between the community and Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center that is focused on saving lives, today… and in the future.

AIC is a non-religious civic initiative challenging increasingly negative perceptions of Muslims by advocating responsible leadership and ‘two-way’ interfaith understanding. As Muslim-Americans, thriving amidst America’s open multicultural society and civil liberties, we promote these same values for the global Muslim community. We are not afraid to advocate unequivocally for women’s equality, free expression, and nonviolence – making no apologies for terrorism, which primarily claims Muslim lives.

Bowl for Life Inc, a non-profit organization, benefits the National Marrow Donor Program’s Be The Match Registry™. Bowl for Life organizes bowling events to raise funds and awareness for bone marrow transplants.

Blood Centers of the Pacific–the nation’s first community blood center–provides the critical link between blood donors who give the gift of life and patients who depend on this lifesaving gift. Blood Centers of the Pacific provides volunteer blood donations to more than 50 hospitals throughout Northern California. It also houses the Blood Systems Research Institute which conducts groundbreaking research in transfusion safety.

KPFT serves the Greater Houston and Galveston population of nearly six million people, reaching almost 150,000 listeners every week and bringing to the airwaves an eclectic schedule of music, news, languages and information programming. In our 41-year history, we’ve grown along with Houston, helping to foster cooperation among the various peoples of the community and becoming a unifying force in a city of great economic and cultural contrasts.