Our community blood supply is a lifeline for you, your family, friends, and neighbors. New York Blood Center (NYBC), established in 1964, is one of the largest community-based, nonprofit blood collection and distribution organizations in the United States, collecting approximately 2,000 units of blood products each day and distributing to more than 20 million people in New York City, Long Island, the Hudson Valley, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania. NYBC’s impact is local, national, and global. We provide over 1 million blood products a year to meet the daily transfusion needs of cancer and surgery patients, accident and burn victims, newborns and mothers delivering babies, AIDS and sickle cell anemia patients, organ transplant recipients, and many others.

New York Blood Center is also home to the Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute and the National Cord Blood Program at the Howard P. Milstein National Cord Blood Center, the world’s largest public cord blood bank. We provide medical services and programs (clinical, transfusion, and hemophilia services) through our medical professionals and transfusion medicine physicians. NYBC remains dedicated to providing the safest, highest quality transfusion products to patients in our communities. Continue reading →

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. Continue reading →

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. Continue reading →

Community Blood Center opened in 1958 at its present address, 4040 Main St. A generation of Kansas Citians has grown up with Community Blood Center. They know if they, or someone they love needs blood in an emergency, Community Blood Center will make sure it’s there. That’s what Community Blood Center does. But that hasn’t always been the case. Over 40 years ago there was no centralized blood collection and distribution agency to serve the greater Kansas City area and its surrounding counties. Continue reading →