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| The fall season is a time when many of us gather with our friends, families and loved ones for a variety of holidays and seasonal festivities. Often, these celebrations center around food, making it out of reach for so many people struggling to afford groceries, especially this year, with rising food costs making even a holiday turkey a distant luxury. Right now, MANNA and our partner network are still serving 68% more people than before the pandemic – many who are needing a hand for the first time. |
Now more than ever, MANNA FoodBank is dedicated to filling as many holiday tables as possible, and you can help us give thousands of households the gift of a holiday, of one less struggle, and a helping of hope. Please join our Virtual Turkey Drive – where we can stretch your donation further to get turkeys, hams, and holiday foods of all kinds for our neighbors across 16 western North Carolina counties. Together, we can make the holidays happen for the people who live and work right here at home, in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains. |
Sixty years ago, a doctor from Greenville, South Carolina saw a need: a need for a community blood center that supported the people who lived, worked, and sought care in the Upstate of South Carolina. Sixty years later, his vision for that community blood center is the bedrock of The Blood Connection (TBC) – a non-profit community blood center serving hospitals across the Carolinas, Georgia, and Virginia. While many things have changed in the past sixty years, TBC’s dedication to its hospital partners and to saving local lives has not.
Despite the current difficulty to collect blood and blood products, The Blood Connection remains steadfast in continuing its mission for the next sixty years to come. Without volunteer blood donors and community blood centers like TBC, shelves will be empty when neighbors, family, or friends are in need. Neighbors like Kristen Odom, a mother from Taylors, South Carolina, who received more than twenty units of blood after the birth of her first daughter. It is because of community blood donors that blood products were available that day, and she has a full life with her husband and two daughters.
“I often think about it in the little things like we celebrate her birthday, it’s a pretty day outside, or we’re at the beach,” said Odom. “This day I get to enjoy because somebody donated blood. I had this overwhelming sense of gratitude…it just still shocks me to this day…here we are, living a completely normal life…because blood was available and they did what they needed to do right away.”
It is estimated roughly 60% of the U.S. population is eligible to donate blood, but only 3% does. While the demand for blood products is constantly increasing, unfortunately, the number of volunteer blood donors is decreasing. As the core donor base gets older, and the younger generation is not donating blood at the same rate, TBC is noticing emptier blood mobiles, and fewer people signing up to donate blood.
“We all play a part in supporting the community’s blood supply,” said Delisa English, President and CEO of The Blood Connection. “We hope people think about what their part will be, whether that is donating blood for the first time, donating blood more often, or hosting a blood drive. We all have a responsibility to our community to ensure that blood products are available when our friends, family, and neighbors need it most.”
Founded in 1962, The Blood Connection spent the first 16 years of its existence under another name: The Greenville Blood Assurance program. In 2001, the Board of Trustees adopted the name ‘The Blood Connection’ – designed to better reflect the mission of connecting healthy donors to patients in need. With just a handful of hospital partners when the organization was created in the 1960s, TBC now serves more than 100 hospitals and has expanded from the Upstate of South Carolina to three other states.
The world around us looks vastly different now than it did in 1962, but one thing remains the same: blood still cannot be replicated or made in a lab. Blood must be donated and is a true gift to those who need blood products to maintain their quality of life.
The Blood Connection is celebrating it’s 60th anniversary by thanking the donors who make its mission possible. All blood donors between October 31 and November 6 will receive a commemorative ‘60th Anniversary’ pin. To find a center or mobile location to donate, go to thebloodconnection.org/donate.
| The fall season is a time when many of us gather with our friends, families and loved ones for a variety of holidays and seasonal festivities. Often, these celebrations center around food, making it out of reach for so many people struggling to afford groceries, especially this year, with rising food costs making even a holiday turkey a distant luxury. Right now, MANNA and our partner network are still serving 68% more people than before the pandemic – many who are needing a hand for the first time. |
Now more than ever, MANNA FoodBank is dedicated to filling as many holiday tables as possible, and you can help us give thousands of households the gift of a holiday, of one less struggle, and a helping of hope. Please join our Virtual Turkey Drive – where we can stretch your donation further to get turkeys, hams, and holiday foods of all kinds for our neighbors across 16 western North Carolina counties. Together, we can make the holidays happen for the people who live and work right here at home, in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains. |
Sixty years ago, a doctor from Greenville, South Carolina saw a need: a need for a community blood center that supported the people who lived, worked, and sought care in the Upstate of South Carolina. Sixty years later, his vision for that community blood center is the bedrock of The Blood Connection (TBC) – a non-profit community blood center serving hospitals across the Carolinas, Georgia, and Virginia. While many things have changed in the past sixty years, TBC’s dedication to its hospital partners and to saving local lives has not.
Despite the current difficulty to collect blood and blood products, The Blood Connection remains steadfast in continuing its mission for the next sixty years to come. Without volunteer blood donors and community blood centers like TBC, shelves will be empty when neighbors, family, or friends are in need. Neighbors like Kristen Odom, a mother from Taylors, South Carolina, who received more than twenty units of blood after the birth of her first daughter. It is because of community blood donors that blood products were available that day, and she has a full life with her husband and two daughters.
“I often think about it in the little things like we celebrate her birthday, it’s a pretty day outside, or we’re at the beach,” said Odom. “This day I get to enjoy because somebody donated blood. I had this overwhelming sense of gratitude…it just still shocks me to this day…here we are, living a completely normal life…because blood was available and they did what they needed to do right away.”
It is estimated roughly 60% of the U.S. population is eligible to donate blood, but only 3% does. While the demand for blood products is constantly increasing, unfortunately, the number of volunteer blood donors is decreasing. As the core donor base gets older, and the younger generation is not donating blood at the same rate, TBC is noticing emptier blood mobiles, and fewer people signing up to donate blood.
“We all play a part in supporting the community’s blood supply,” said Delisa English, President and CEO of The Blood Connection. “We hope people think about what their part will be, whether that is donating blood for the first time, donating blood more often, or hosting a blood drive. We all have a responsibility to our community to ensure that blood products are available when our friends, family, and neighbors need it most.”
Founded in 1962, The Blood Connection spent the first 16 years of its existence under another name: The Greenville Blood Assurance program. In 2001, the Board of Trustees adopted the name ‘The Blood Connection’ – designed to better reflect the mission of connecting healthy donors to patients in need. With just a handful of hospital partners when the organization was created in the 1960s, TBC now serves more than 100 hospitals and has expanded from the Upstate of South Carolina to three other states.
The world around us looks vastly different now than it did in 1962, but one thing remains the same: blood still cannot be replicated or made in a lab. Blood must be donated and is a true gift to those who need blood products to maintain their quality of life.
The Blood Connection is celebrating it’s 60th anniversary by thanking the donors who make its mission possible. All blood donors between October 31 and November 6 will receive a commemorative ‘60th Anniversary’ pin. To find a center or mobile location to donate, go to thebloodconnection.org/donate.
What makes a place idyllic?
Start with an emerald river that flows from ancient mountains. Add an abundance of living creatures that co-evolved over millennia. Bring in humans who honor their place in the interconnected web. And rebuild a vital stream that supports us all.
Your support and engagement helps ensure the health of this watershed for the ages! We can’t do it without you.
| The fall season is a time when many of us gather with our friends, families and loved ones for a variety of holidays and seasonal festivities. Often, these celebrations center around food, making it out of reach for so many people struggling to afford groceries, especially this year, with rising food costs making even a holiday turkey a distant luxury. Right now, MANNA and our partner network are still serving 68% more people than before the pandemic – many who are needing a hand for the first time. |
Now more than ever, MANNA FoodBank is dedicated to filling as many holiday tables as possible, and you can help us give thousands of households the gift of a holiday, of one less struggle, and a helping of hope. Please join our Virtual Turkey Drive – where we can stretch your donation further to get turkeys, hams, and holiday foods of all kinds for our neighbors across 16 western North Carolina counties. Together, we can make the holidays happen for the people who live and work right here at home, in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains. |
One in five people in the Carolinas don’t have enough food to eat. As we enter the holiday season, November is historically one of the hardest months for food banks across the country. Many North and South Carolinians are either looking for ways to help those in need or looking for help themselves. The Blood Connection (TBC), the non-profit community blood center serving these two states, is dedicating the month of November to addressing the issue of food insecurity in the region by offering blood donors a way to help those in need.
In the month of November, TBC will partner with Feeding the Carolinas – a network of food banks across North and South Carolina that works to provide a healthy, adequate, and consistent food supply – to promote blood donation and food donation. Each year, Feeding the Carolinas estimates they supply food to more than 2.3 million Carolinians facing hunger. Feeding the Carolinas also supports the Augusta, Georgia region, which TBC has recently begun operations in.
TBC needs around 1,000 blood donations per day to supply blood to more than 100 hospitals across the Carolinas, and TBC must ensure the shelves are stocked with life-saving blood products when hospital partners call. TBC has set a goal of raising $5,000 for food banks in November, with the hopes of helping neighboring non-profits stock their shelves, as well. Like the need for blood, the need for charitable food does not go away: people in this community will always need food – especially now with inflation at never-before-seen levels. With one blood donation, a donor can save three lives and help a family in their own community have enough food on the table for Thanksgiving.
Throughout the month of November, blood donors will have the option to donate their TBC reward points in
the TBC Store to Feeding the Carolinas. At TBC centers, food collection boxes will also be placed out for
donors to give non-perishable food items. TBC is also looking for organizations to host blood drives
benefiting Feeding the Carolinas. Blood drive hosts have the option to donate $10 or $20 per blood donor to
Feeding the Carolinas. For more information about hosting a blood drive in November, go to
thebloodconnection.org/host.
Sixty years ago, a doctor from Greenville, South Carolina saw a need: a need for a community blood center that supported the people who lived, worked, and sought care in the Upstate of South Carolina. Sixty years later, his vision for that community blood center is the bedrock of The Blood Connection (TBC) – a non-profit community blood center serving hospitals across the Carolinas, Georgia, and Virginia. While many things have changed in the past sixty years, TBC’s dedication to its hospital partners and to saving local lives has not.
Despite the current difficulty to collect blood and blood products, The Blood Connection remains steadfast in continuing its mission for the next sixty years to come. Without volunteer blood donors and community blood centers like TBC, shelves will be empty when neighbors, family, or friends are in need. Neighbors like Kristen Odom, a mother from Taylors, South Carolina, who received more than twenty units of blood after the birth of her first daughter. It is because of community blood donors that blood products were available that day, and she has a full life with her husband and two daughters.
“I often think about it in the little things like we celebrate her birthday, it’s a pretty day outside, or we’re at the beach,” said Odom. “This day I get to enjoy because somebody donated blood. I had this overwhelming sense of gratitude…it just still shocks me to this day…here we are, living a completely normal life…because blood was available and they did what they needed to do right away.”
It is estimated roughly 60% of the U.S. population is eligible to donate blood, but only 3% does. While the demand for blood products is constantly increasing, unfortunately, the number of volunteer blood donors is decreasing. As the core donor base gets older, and the younger generation is not donating blood at the same rate, TBC is noticing emptier blood mobiles, and fewer people signing up to donate blood.
“We all play a part in supporting the community’s blood supply,” said Delisa English, President and CEO of The Blood Connection. “We hope people think about what their part will be, whether that is donating blood for the first time, donating blood more often, or hosting a blood drive. We all have a responsibility to our community to ensure that blood products are available when our friends, family, and neighbors need it most.”
Founded in 1962, The Blood Connection spent the first 16 years of its existence under another name: The Greenville Blood Assurance program. In 2001, the Board of Trustees adopted the name ‘The Blood Connection’ – designed to better reflect the mission of connecting healthy donors to patients in need. With just a handful of hospital partners when the organization was created in the 1960s, TBC now serves more than 100 hospitals and has expanded from the Upstate of South Carolina to three other states.
The world around us looks vastly different now than it did in 1962, but one thing remains the same: blood still cannot be replicated or made in a lab. Blood must be donated and is a true gift to those who need blood products to maintain their quality of life.
The Blood Connection is celebrating it’s 60th anniversary by thanking the donors who make its mission possible. All blood donors between October 31 and November 6 will receive a commemorative ‘60th Anniversary’ pin. To find a center or mobile location to donate, go to thebloodconnection.org/donate.
| The fall season is a time when many of us gather with our friends, families and loved ones for a variety of holidays and seasonal festivities. Often, these celebrations center around food, making it out of reach for so many people struggling to afford groceries, especially this year, with rising food costs making even a holiday turkey a distant luxury. Right now, MANNA and our partner network are still serving 68% more people than before the pandemic – many who are needing a hand for the first time. |
Now more than ever, MANNA FoodBank is dedicated to filling as many holiday tables as possible, and you can help us give thousands of households the gift of a holiday, of one less struggle, and a helping of hope. Please join our Virtual Turkey Drive – where we can stretch your donation further to get turkeys, hams, and holiday foods of all kinds for our neighbors across 16 western North Carolina counties. Together, we can make the holidays happen for the people who live and work right here at home, in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains. |
One in five people in the Carolinas don’t have enough food to eat. As we enter the holiday season, November is historically one of the hardest months for food banks across the country. Many North and South Carolinians are either looking for ways to help those in need or looking for help themselves. The Blood Connection (TBC), the non-profit community blood center serving these two states, is dedicating the month of November to addressing the issue of food insecurity in the region by offering blood donors a way to help those in need.
In the month of November, TBC will partner with Feeding the Carolinas – a network of food banks across North and South Carolina that works to provide a healthy, adequate, and consistent food supply – to promote blood donation and food donation. Each year, Feeding the Carolinas estimates they supply food to more than 2.3 million Carolinians facing hunger. Feeding the Carolinas also supports the Augusta, Georgia region, which TBC has recently begun operations in.
TBC needs around 1,000 blood donations per day to supply blood to more than 100 hospitals across the Carolinas, and TBC must ensure the shelves are stocked with life-saving blood products when hospital partners call. TBC has set a goal of raising $5,000 for food banks in November, with the hopes of helping neighboring non-profits stock their shelves, as well. Like the need for blood, the need for charitable food does not go away: people in this community will always need food – especially now with inflation at never-before-seen levels. With one blood donation, a donor can save three lives and help a family in their own community have enough food on the table for Thanksgiving.
Throughout the month of November, blood donors will have the option to donate their TBC reward points in
the TBC Store to Feeding the Carolinas. At TBC centers, food collection boxes will also be placed out for
donors to give non-perishable food items. TBC is also looking for organizations to host blood drives
benefiting Feeding the Carolinas. Blood drive hosts have the option to donate $10 or $20 per blood donor to
Feeding the Carolinas. For more information about hosting a blood drive in November, go to
thebloodconnection.org/host.
Sixty years ago, a doctor from Greenville, South Carolina saw a need: a need for a community blood center that supported the people who lived, worked, and sought care in the Upstate of South Carolina. Sixty years later, his vision for that community blood center is the bedrock of The Blood Connection (TBC) – a non-profit community blood center serving hospitals across the Carolinas, Georgia, and Virginia. While many things have changed in the past sixty years, TBC’s dedication to its hospital partners and to saving local lives has not.
Despite the current difficulty to collect blood and blood products, The Blood Connection remains steadfast in continuing its mission for the next sixty years to come. Without volunteer blood donors and community blood centers like TBC, shelves will be empty when neighbors, family, or friends are in need. Neighbors like Kristen Odom, a mother from Taylors, South Carolina, who received more than twenty units of blood after the birth of her first daughter. It is because of community blood donors that blood products were available that day, and she has a full life with her husband and two daughters.
“I often think about it in the little things like we celebrate her birthday, it’s a pretty day outside, or we’re at the beach,” said Odom. “This day I get to enjoy because somebody donated blood. I had this overwhelming sense of gratitude…it just still shocks me to this day…here we are, living a completely normal life…because blood was available and they did what they needed to do right away.”
It is estimated roughly 60% of the U.S. population is eligible to donate blood, but only 3% does. While the demand for blood products is constantly increasing, unfortunately, the number of volunteer blood donors is decreasing. As the core donor base gets older, and the younger generation is not donating blood at the same rate, TBC is noticing emptier blood mobiles, and fewer people signing up to donate blood.
“We all play a part in supporting the community’s blood supply,” said Delisa English, President and CEO of The Blood Connection. “We hope people think about what their part will be, whether that is donating blood for the first time, donating blood more often, or hosting a blood drive. We all have a responsibility to our community to ensure that blood products are available when our friends, family, and neighbors need it most.”
Founded in 1962, The Blood Connection spent the first 16 years of its existence under another name: The Greenville Blood Assurance program. In 2001, the Board of Trustees adopted the name ‘The Blood Connection’ – designed to better reflect the mission of connecting healthy donors to patients in need. With just a handful of hospital partners when the organization was created in the 1960s, TBC now serves more than 100 hospitals and has expanded from the Upstate of South Carolina to three other states.
The world around us looks vastly different now than it did in 1962, but one thing remains the same: blood still cannot be replicated or made in a lab. Blood must be donated and is a true gift to those who need blood products to maintain their quality of life.
The Blood Connection is celebrating it’s 60th anniversary by thanking the donors who make its mission possible. All blood donors between October 31 and November 6 will receive a commemorative ‘60th Anniversary’ pin. To find a center or mobile location to donate, go to thebloodconnection.org/donate.
| The fall season is a time when many of us gather with our friends, families and loved ones for a variety of holidays and seasonal festivities. Often, these celebrations center around food, making it out of reach for so many people struggling to afford groceries, especially this year, with rising food costs making even a holiday turkey a distant luxury. Right now, MANNA and our partner network are still serving 68% more people than before the pandemic – many who are needing a hand for the first time. |
Now more than ever, MANNA FoodBank is dedicated to filling as many holiday tables as possible, and you can help us give thousands of households the gift of a holiday, of one less struggle, and a helping of hope. Please join our Virtual Turkey Drive – where we can stretch your donation further to get turkeys, hams, and holiday foods of all kinds for our neighbors across 16 western North Carolina counties. Together, we can make the holidays happen for the people who live and work right here at home, in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains. |
One in five people in the Carolinas don’t have enough food to eat. As we enter the holiday season, November is historically one of the hardest months for food banks across the country. Many North and South Carolinians are either looking for ways to help those in need or looking for help themselves. The Blood Connection (TBC), the non-profit community blood center serving these two states, is dedicating the month of November to addressing the issue of food insecurity in the region by offering blood donors a way to help those in need.
In the month of November, TBC will partner with Feeding the Carolinas – a network of food banks across North and South Carolina that works to provide a healthy, adequate, and consistent food supply – to promote blood donation and food donation. Each year, Feeding the Carolinas estimates they supply food to more than 2.3 million Carolinians facing hunger. Feeding the Carolinas also supports the Augusta, Georgia region, which TBC has recently begun operations in.
TBC needs around 1,000 blood donations per day to supply blood to more than 100 hospitals across the Carolinas, and TBC must ensure the shelves are stocked with life-saving blood products when hospital partners call. TBC has set a goal of raising $5,000 for food banks in November, with the hopes of helping neighboring non-profits stock their shelves, as well. Like the need for blood, the need for charitable food does not go away: people in this community will always need food – especially now with inflation at never-before-seen levels. With one blood donation, a donor can save three lives and help a family in their own community have enough food on the table for Thanksgiving.
Throughout the month of November, blood donors will have the option to donate their TBC reward points in
the TBC Store to Feeding the Carolinas. At TBC centers, food collection boxes will also be placed out for
donors to give non-perishable food items. TBC is also looking for organizations to host blood drives
benefiting Feeding the Carolinas. Blood drive hosts have the option to donate $10 or $20 per blood donor to
Feeding the Carolinas. For more information about hosting a blood drive in November, go to
thebloodconnection.org/host.
Sixty years ago, a doctor from Greenville, South Carolina saw a need: a need for a community blood center that supported the people who lived, worked, and sought care in the Upstate of South Carolina. Sixty years later, his vision for that community blood center is the bedrock of The Blood Connection (TBC) – a non-profit community blood center serving hospitals across the Carolinas, Georgia, and Virginia. While many things have changed in the past sixty years, TBC’s dedication to its hospital partners and to saving local lives has not.
Despite the current difficulty to collect blood and blood products, The Blood Connection remains steadfast in continuing its mission for the next sixty years to come. Without volunteer blood donors and community blood centers like TBC, shelves will be empty when neighbors, family, or friends are in need. Neighbors like Kristen Odom, a mother from Taylors, South Carolina, who received more than twenty units of blood after the birth of her first daughter. It is because of community blood donors that blood products were available that day, and she has a full life with her husband and two daughters.
“I often think about it in the little things like we celebrate her birthday, it’s a pretty day outside, or we’re at the beach,” said Odom. “This day I get to enjoy because somebody donated blood. I had this overwhelming sense of gratitude…it just still shocks me to this day…here we are, living a completely normal life…because blood was available and they did what they needed to do right away.”
It is estimated roughly 60% of the U.S. population is eligible to donate blood, but only 3% does. While the demand for blood products is constantly increasing, unfortunately, the number of volunteer blood donors is decreasing. As the core donor base gets older, and the younger generation is not donating blood at the same rate, TBC is noticing emptier blood mobiles, and fewer people signing up to donate blood.
“We all play a part in supporting the community’s blood supply,” said Delisa English, President and CEO of The Blood Connection. “We hope people think about what their part will be, whether that is donating blood for the first time, donating blood more often, or hosting a blood drive. We all have a responsibility to our community to ensure that blood products are available when our friends, family, and neighbors need it most.”
Founded in 1962, The Blood Connection spent the first 16 years of its existence under another name: The Greenville Blood Assurance program. In 2001, the Board of Trustees adopted the name ‘The Blood Connection’ – designed to better reflect the mission of connecting healthy donors to patients in need. With just a handful of hospital partners when the organization was created in the 1960s, TBC now serves more than 100 hospitals and has expanded from the Upstate of South Carolina to three other states.
The world around us looks vastly different now than it did in 1962, but one thing remains the same: blood still cannot be replicated or made in a lab. Blood must be donated and is a true gift to those who need blood products to maintain their quality of life.
The Blood Connection is celebrating it’s 60th anniversary by thanking the donors who make its mission possible. All blood donors between October 31 and November 6 will receive a commemorative ‘60th Anniversary’ pin. To find a center or mobile location to donate, go to thebloodconnection.org/donate.
| The fall season is a time when many of us gather with our friends, families and loved ones for a variety of holidays and seasonal festivities. Often, these celebrations center around food, making it out of reach for so many people struggling to afford groceries, especially this year, with rising food costs making even a holiday turkey a distant luxury. Right now, MANNA and our partner network are still serving 68% more people than before the pandemic – many who are needing a hand for the first time. |
Now more than ever, MANNA FoodBank is dedicated to filling as many holiday tables as possible, and you can help us give thousands of households the gift of a holiday, of one less struggle, and a helping of hope. Please join our Virtual Turkey Drive – where we can stretch your donation further to get turkeys, hams, and holiday foods of all kinds for our neighbors across 16 western North Carolina counties. Together, we can make the holidays happen for the people who live and work right here at home, in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains. |
One in five people in the Carolinas don’t have enough food to eat. As we enter the holiday season, November is historically one of the hardest months for food banks across the country. Many North and South Carolinians are either looking for ways to help those in need or looking for help themselves. The Blood Connection (TBC), the non-profit community blood center serving these two states, is dedicating the month of November to addressing the issue of food insecurity in the region by offering blood donors a way to help those in need.
In the month of November, TBC will partner with Feeding the Carolinas – a network of food banks across North and South Carolina that works to provide a healthy, adequate, and consistent food supply – to promote blood donation and food donation. Each year, Feeding the Carolinas estimates they supply food to more than 2.3 million Carolinians facing hunger. Feeding the Carolinas also supports the Augusta, Georgia region, which TBC has recently begun operations in.
TBC needs around 1,000 blood donations per day to supply blood to more than 100 hospitals across the Carolinas, and TBC must ensure the shelves are stocked with life-saving blood products when hospital partners call. TBC has set a goal of raising $5,000 for food banks in November, with the hopes of helping neighboring non-profits stock their shelves, as well. Like the need for blood, the need for charitable food does not go away: people in this community will always need food – especially now with inflation at never-before-seen levels. With one blood donation, a donor can save three lives and help a family in their own community have enough food on the table for Thanksgiving.
Throughout the month of November, blood donors will have the option to donate their TBC reward points in
the TBC Store to Feeding the Carolinas. At TBC centers, food collection boxes will also be placed out for
donors to give non-perishable food items. TBC is also looking for organizations to host blood drives
benefiting Feeding the Carolinas. Blood drive hosts have the option to donate $10 or $20 per blood donor to
Feeding the Carolinas. For more information about hosting a blood drive in November, go to
thebloodconnection.org/host.
Sixty years ago, a doctor from Greenville, South Carolina saw a need: a need for a community blood center that supported the people who lived, worked, and sought care in the Upstate of South Carolina. Sixty years later, his vision for that community blood center is the bedrock of The Blood Connection (TBC) – a non-profit community blood center serving hospitals across the Carolinas, Georgia, and Virginia. While many things have changed in the past sixty years, TBC’s dedication to its hospital partners and to saving local lives has not.
Despite the current difficulty to collect blood and blood products, The Blood Connection remains steadfast in continuing its mission for the next sixty years to come. Without volunteer blood donors and community blood centers like TBC, shelves will be empty when neighbors, family, or friends are in need. Neighbors like Kristen Odom, a mother from Taylors, South Carolina, who received more than twenty units of blood after the birth of her first daughter. It is because of community blood donors that blood products were available that day, and she has a full life with her husband and two daughters.
“I often think about it in the little things like we celebrate her birthday, it’s a pretty day outside, or we’re at the beach,” said Odom. “This day I get to enjoy because somebody donated blood. I had this overwhelming sense of gratitude…it just still shocks me to this day…here we are, living a completely normal life…because blood was available and they did what they needed to do right away.”
It is estimated roughly 60% of the U.S. population is eligible to donate blood, but only 3% does. While the demand for blood products is constantly increasing, unfortunately, the number of volunteer blood donors is decreasing. As the core donor base gets older, and the younger generation is not donating blood at the same rate, TBC is noticing emptier blood mobiles, and fewer people signing up to donate blood.
“We all play a part in supporting the community’s blood supply,” said Delisa English, President and CEO of The Blood Connection. “We hope people think about what their part will be, whether that is donating blood for the first time, donating blood more often, or hosting a blood drive. We all have a responsibility to our community to ensure that blood products are available when our friends, family, and neighbors need it most.”
Founded in 1962, The Blood Connection spent the first 16 years of its existence under another name: The Greenville Blood Assurance program. In 2001, the Board of Trustees adopted the name ‘The Blood Connection’ – designed to better reflect the mission of connecting healthy donors to patients in need. With just a handful of hospital partners when the organization was created in the 1960s, TBC now serves more than 100 hospitals and has expanded from the Upstate of South Carolina to three other states.
The world around us looks vastly different now than it did in 1962, but one thing remains the same: blood still cannot be replicated or made in a lab. Blood must be donated and is a true gift to those who need blood products to maintain their quality of life.
The Blood Connection is celebrating it’s 60th anniversary by thanking the donors who make its mission possible. All blood donors between October 31 and November 6 will receive a commemorative ‘60th Anniversary’ pin. To find a center or mobile location to donate, go to thebloodconnection.org/donate.
What makes a place idyllic?
Start with an emerald river that flows from ancient mountains. Add an abundance of living creatures that co-evolved over millennia. Bring in humans who honor their place in the interconnected web. And rebuild a vital stream that supports us all.
Your support and engagement helps ensure the health of this watershed for the ages! We can’t do it without you.
| The fall season is a time when many of us gather with our friends, families and loved ones for a variety of holidays and seasonal festivities. Often, these celebrations center around food, making it out of reach for so many people struggling to afford groceries, especially this year, with rising food costs making even a holiday turkey a distant luxury. Right now, MANNA and our partner network are still serving 68% more people than before the pandemic – many who are needing a hand for the first time. |
Now more than ever, MANNA FoodBank is dedicated to filling as many holiday tables as possible, and you can help us give thousands of households the gift of a holiday, of one less struggle, and a helping of hope. Please join our Virtual Turkey Drive – where we can stretch your donation further to get turkeys, hams, and holiday foods of all kinds for our neighbors across 16 western North Carolina counties. Together, we can make the holidays happen for the people who live and work right here at home, in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains. |
One in five people in the Carolinas don’t have enough food to eat. As we enter the holiday season, November is historically one of the hardest months for food banks across the country. Many North and South Carolinians are either looking for ways to help those in need or looking for help themselves. The Blood Connection (TBC), the non-profit community blood center serving these two states, is dedicating the month of November to addressing the issue of food insecurity in the region by offering blood donors a way to help those in need.
In the month of November, TBC will partner with Feeding the Carolinas – a network of food banks across North and South Carolina that works to provide a healthy, adequate, and consistent food supply – to promote blood donation and food donation. Each year, Feeding the Carolinas estimates they supply food to more than 2.3 million Carolinians facing hunger. Feeding the Carolinas also supports the Augusta, Georgia region, which TBC has recently begun operations in.
TBC needs around 1,000 blood donations per day to supply blood to more than 100 hospitals across the Carolinas, and TBC must ensure the shelves are stocked with life-saving blood products when hospital partners call. TBC has set a goal of raising $5,000 for food banks in November, with the hopes of helping neighboring non-profits stock their shelves, as well. Like the need for blood, the need for charitable food does not go away: people in this community will always need food – especially now with inflation at never-before-seen levels. With one blood donation, a donor can save three lives and help a family in their own community have enough food on the table for Thanksgiving.
Throughout the month of November, blood donors will have the option to donate their TBC reward points in
the TBC Store to Feeding the Carolinas. At TBC centers, food collection boxes will also be placed out for
donors to give non-perishable food items. TBC is also looking for organizations to host blood drives
benefiting Feeding the Carolinas. Blood drive hosts have the option to donate $10 or $20 per blood donor to
Feeding the Carolinas. For more information about hosting a blood drive in November, go to
thebloodconnection.org/host.
Sixty years ago, a doctor from Greenville, South Carolina saw a need: a need for a community blood center that supported the people who lived, worked, and sought care in the Upstate of South Carolina. Sixty years later, his vision for that community blood center is the bedrock of The Blood Connection (TBC) – a non-profit community blood center serving hospitals across the Carolinas, Georgia, and Virginia. While many things have changed in the past sixty years, TBC’s dedication to its hospital partners and to saving local lives has not.
Despite the current difficulty to collect blood and blood products, The Blood Connection remains steadfast in continuing its mission for the next sixty years to come. Without volunteer blood donors and community blood centers like TBC, shelves will be empty when neighbors, family, or friends are in need. Neighbors like Kristen Odom, a mother from Taylors, South Carolina, who received more than twenty units of blood after the birth of her first daughter. It is because of community blood donors that blood products were available that day, and she has a full life with her husband and two daughters.
“I often think about it in the little things like we celebrate her birthday, it’s a pretty day outside, or we’re at the beach,” said Odom. “This day I get to enjoy because somebody donated blood. I had this overwhelming sense of gratitude…it just still shocks me to this day…here we are, living a completely normal life…because blood was available and they did what they needed to do right away.”
It is estimated roughly 60% of the U.S. population is eligible to donate blood, but only 3% does. While the demand for blood products is constantly increasing, unfortunately, the number of volunteer blood donors is decreasing. As the core donor base gets older, and the younger generation is not donating blood at the same rate, TBC is noticing emptier blood mobiles, and fewer people signing up to donate blood.
“We all play a part in supporting the community’s blood supply,” said Delisa English, President and CEO of The Blood Connection. “We hope people think about what their part will be, whether that is donating blood for the first time, donating blood more often, or hosting a blood drive. We all have a responsibility to our community to ensure that blood products are available when our friends, family, and neighbors need it most.”
Founded in 1962, The Blood Connection spent the first 16 years of its existence under another name: The Greenville Blood Assurance program. In 2001, the Board of Trustees adopted the name ‘The Blood Connection’ – designed to better reflect the mission of connecting healthy donors to patients in need. With just a handful of hospital partners when the organization was created in the 1960s, TBC now serves more than 100 hospitals and has expanded from the Upstate of South Carolina to three other states.
The world around us looks vastly different now than it did in 1962, but one thing remains the same: blood still cannot be replicated or made in a lab. Blood must be donated and is a true gift to those who need blood products to maintain their quality of life.
The Blood Connection is celebrating it’s 60th anniversary by thanking the donors who make its mission possible. All blood donors between October 31 and November 6 will receive a commemorative ‘60th Anniversary’ pin. To find a center or mobile location to donate, go to thebloodconnection.org/donate.
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Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy
WHAT THEY DO: We permanently protect and steward our region’s most beloved natural areas. When you support local land and water conservation, you ensure our lands, our water, our wildlife and our farms will be there for future generations. SAHC is committed to creating and supporting equitable, healthy and thriving communities for everyone in our region.
Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy
- Donate $25+ and get a day pass to the WNC Nature Center.
- Donate $50+ and get an animal sticker and a day pass.
- Donate $100+ and get an animal tracks necklace, animal sticker, and a day pass.
- Donate $250+ and get a a guided tour of the Nature Center with animal enrichment for two people, plus the necklace, sticker, and day pass. PLUS, you’ll be entered to win a chance to go on habitat with red pandas Leafa and Phoenix in 2023!
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Help Us Meet the Need This Holiday Season
Round Up Campaigns & Community Events
We are so grateful to all of our partners who are helping us during this critical time by providing various ways for people to get involved and help provide meals for neighbors this holiday season. Read through the list below to find out ways you can get involved. - Food Lions Feeds (11/9 – 12/12): Food Lion stores will be hosting Food Lion Feeds, which is an in-store food drive program where customers have the opportunity to purchase and donate a Food Lion Feeds for the Holidays box of food that will be donated to MANNA FoodBank.
| The fall season is a time when many of us gather with our friends, families and loved ones for a variety of holidays and seasonal festivities. Often, these celebrations center around food, making it out of reach for so many people struggling to afford groceries, especially this year, with rising food costs making even a holiday turkey a distant luxury. Right now, MANNA and our partner network are still serving 68% more people than before the pandemic – many who are needing a hand for the first time. |
Now more than ever, MANNA FoodBank is dedicated to filling as many holiday tables as possible, and you can help us give thousands of households the gift of a holiday, of one less struggle, and a helping of hope. Please join our Virtual Turkey Drive – where we can stretch your donation further to get turkeys, hams, and holiday foods of all kinds for our neighbors across 16 western North Carolina counties. Together, we can make the holidays happen for the people who live and work right here at home, in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains. |
Our Virtual Angel tree is up for this holiday season. This gift tree provides our broader YWCA community a path to join us as we aim to support our program participants and their families with a holiday season full of love and support.
If you would like to adopt a family this holiday season please click here or email Taleese Morrill in our Programs team to get the details of how you can fulfill a family’s holiday wish.
If you prefer please select a gift from our Amazon wish list by December 1st, 2022. Gifts from the list will be mailed directly to our building and will be sorted and distributed by our YWCA elves. All items on the list have been selected by the families and are items they are wishing for or are in need of this holiday season.
All gifts must be ordered by December 1.
Programs Served by the Angel Tree
MotherLove
YWCA’s MotherLove program supports pregnant and parenting teens throughout Buncombe County. Our goals are to help young parents to stay in school and graduate, access higher education and vocational training, develop the skills and knowledge needed to become strong parents, and delay another teen pregnancy.
Getting Ahead In a Just Getting By World
YWCA’s Getting Ahead program aims to provide financial empowerment for low-income women of all ages and backgrounds to make choices that positively impact themselves, their families, and their community.
Early Learning Program
YWCA’s Early Learning Program provides 5-star childcare for children ages 6 weeks to 5 years. Our experienced and compassionate teachers not only provide exceptional care for little ones, but also prepare young children to succeed cognitively, physically, socially, and emotionally. We prioritize families using childcare vouchers or caring for children in the foster care system.
Empowerment Childcare
The YWCA provides up to 12 hours of free childcare per week for parents who are in transition, continuing their education, accessing social services, or looking for employment. ECC works closely with the Family Justice Center, Buncombe County Health and Human Services, A-B Tech, Green Opportunities, and Mary Benson House.
One in five people in the Carolinas don’t have enough food to eat. As we enter the holiday season, November is historically one of the hardest months for food banks across the country. Many North and South Carolinians are either looking for ways to help those in need or looking for help themselves. The Blood Connection (TBC), the non-profit community blood center serving these two states, is dedicating the month of November to addressing the issue of food insecurity in the region by offering blood donors a way to help those in need.
In the month of November, TBC will partner with Feeding the Carolinas – a network of food banks across North and South Carolina that works to provide a healthy, adequate, and consistent food supply – to promote blood donation and food donation. Each year, Feeding the Carolinas estimates they supply food to more than 2.3 million Carolinians facing hunger. Feeding the Carolinas also supports the Augusta, Georgia region, which TBC has recently begun operations in.
TBC needs around 1,000 blood donations per day to supply blood to more than 100 hospitals across the Carolinas, and TBC must ensure the shelves are stocked with life-saving blood products when hospital partners call. TBC has set a goal of raising $5,000 for food banks in November, with the hopes of helping neighboring non-profits stock their shelves, as well. Like the need for blood, the need for charitable food does not go away: people in this community will always need food – especially now with inflation at never-before-seen levels. With one blood donation, a donor can save three lives and help a family in their own community have enough food on the table for Thanksgiving.
Throughout the month of November, blood donors will have the option to donate their TBC reward points in
the TBC Store to Feeding the Carolinas. At TBC centers, food collection boxes will also be placed out for
donors to give non-perishable food items. TBC is also looking for organizations to host blood drives
benefiting Feeding the Carolinas. Blood drive hosts have the option to donate $10 or $20 per blood donor to
Feeding the Carolinas. For more information about hosting a blood drive in November, go to
thebloodconnection.org/host.
Sixty years ago, a doctor from Greenville, South Carolina saw a need: a need for a community blood center that supported the people who lived, worked, and sought care in the Upstate of South Carolina. Sixty years later, his vision for that community blood center is the bedrock of The Blood Connection (TBC) – a non-profit community blood center serving hospitals across the Carolinas, Georgia, and Virginia. While many things have changed in the past sixty years, TBC’s dedication to its hospital partners and to saving local lives has not.
Despite the current difficulty to collect blood and blood products, The Blood Connection remains steadfast in continuing its mission for the next sixty years to come. Without volunteer blood donors and community blood centers like TBC, shelves will be empty when neighbors, family, or friends are in need. Neighbors like Kristen Odom, a mother from Taylors, South Carolina, who received more than twenty units of blood after the birth of her first daughter. It is because of community blood donors that blood products were available that day, and she has a full life with her husband and two daughters.
“I often think about it in the little things like we celebrate her birthday, it’s a pretty day outside, or we’re at the beach,” said Odom. “This day I get to enjoy because somebody donated blood. I had this overwhelming sense of gratitude…it just still shocks me to this day…here we are, living a completely normal life…because blood was available and they did what they needed to do right away.”
It is estimated roughly 60% of the U.S. population is eligible to donate blood, but only 3% does. While the demand for blood products is constantly increasing, unfortunately, the number of volunteer blood donors is decreasing. As the core donor base gets older, and the younger generation is not donating blood at the same rate, TBC is noticing emptier blood mobiles, and fewer people signing up to donate blood.
“We all play a part in supporting the community’s blood supply,” said Delisa English, President and CEO of The Blood Connection. “We hope people think about what their part will be, whether that is donating blood for the first time, donating blood more often, or hosting a blood drive. We all have a responsibility to our community to ensure that blood products are available when our friends, family, and neighbors need it most.”
Founded in 1962, The Blood Connection spent the first 16 years of its existence under another name: The Greenville Blood Assurance program. In 2001, the Board of Trustees adopted the name ‘The Blood Connection’ – designed to better reflect the mission of connecting healthy donors to patients in need. With just a handful of hospital partners when the organization was created in the 1960s, TBC now serves more than 100 hospitals and has expanded from the Upstate of South Carolina to three other states.
The world around us looks vastly different now than it did in 1962, but one thing remains the same: blood still cannot be replicated or made in a lab. Blood must be donated and is a true gift to those who need blood products to maintain their quality of life.
The Blood Connection is celebrating it’s 60th anniversary by thanking the donors who make its mission possible. All blood donors between October 31 and November 6 will receive a commemorative ‘60th Anniversary’ pin. To find a center or mobile location to donate, go to thebloodconnection.org/donate.