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1 $70,000 in major support saves umbilical cord blood units Major grants from the San Diego Foundation donor-advised funds supported by Audrey In partnership with the San Diego Blood Bank to help save lives every day with safe, adequate supplies of donated blood. NON-PR0FIT US POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO Gateway Center Ave. Suite 100 San Diego, CA Commemorative Brick & Tile Campaign ISSUE Looking for the perfect gift? We have a suggestion. How about a brick or a tile or even a bench? Geisel and John and Dorothy Helm have made it Say it Now. Say it Always. possible for the blood bank to save approximately 1,000 umbilical cord blood units. This represents 40% of its inventory of this special type of blood. The blood bank used the gifts to order a sophisticated liquid nitrogen freezer for storing cord blood at temperatures lower than minus 150 Celsius. The support arrived just in time to allow the safe move of the units from the old Upas Street building to the Cell Therapy Center located at the new headquarters. Cord blood units are currently listed on the National Marrow Donor Program registry to be searched for possible transplant matches for patients with leukemia and other diseases or Helping to Recognize San Diego County Companies Half of the San Diego Blood Bank s blood supply is collected through mobile blood drives held at private companies, churches, schools, civic groups and more. Mercer Health & Benefits salutes these caring organizations by helping to cover costs of the annual Chairperson s Recognition Event. This event is organized by the San Diego Blood Bank every year to thank the chairpeople who help organize these lifesaving mobile blood drives. Thank you Mercer Health and Benefits. INSIDE THIS EDITION Thanks go out to our event sponsors Transylvania Golf Classic a Bloody Good Time Donor John Adkins family and friends joke with him that his birthday parties are quite draining. That s because for the last eight of those birthdays they ve celebrated at the San Diego Blood Bank, with all party-goers giving blood. This conditions. Saving 1,000 cord blood units meant year, 13 of John s friends and families joined him preventing the loss of up to 1,000 potentially lifea very haunted course. saving patient matches. Audrey Geisel is the president of the Dr. Seuss Foundation, which has generously granted funds to the San Diego Blood Bank on many past occasions. Mr. and Mrs. Helm have been generous and extraordinarily faithful donors for more than 15 years. Donating blood as a birthday gift! Saving Lives in Southwest County On behalf of the seriously ill and injured patients of the Southwest County, we thank San Diego County Credit Union for funding the lifesaving programs of the San Diego Blood Bank. Your gifts are saving lives in the Southwest County! The San Diego Blood Bank s eighth annual Transylvania Golf Classic was a bloody good time, raising over $37,000 for our lifesaving programs and services. A special thanks to our Presenting Sponsor, Sycuan Resort & Casino, as well as supporting sponsors JetBlue Airways and Diamonds Forever. Chargers Blood Drive Transylvania Golf Classic Support the Blood Bank Through Estate and Financial Planning By naming the San Diego Blood Bank in your will or living trust, you can strengthen the San Diego Blood Bank for future generations. You can include a message on any of those, and it will be placed at the Commemorative Entry Plaza at the San Diego Blood Bank s new headquarters and main donor center. Your commemorative brick, tile or bench will become a lasting, living memory as part of our plaza which will be welcoming more than 18,000 donors a year. to donate and then headed over to Sanfilippo s restaurant in Hillcrest to continue the party. John turned 57 this year. He s a retired firefighter who says at this point in his life he doesn t need gifts, thus the idea to have his friends and family celebrate with him by giving to others. It s just part of giving back John says. Many of our friends set aside a certain percentage or dollar amount for the blood bank after they have provided for their heirs. Others leave life insurance, IRA s, or other assets. We would be happy to discuss how a planned gift may benefit you, your heirs, and the San Diego Blood Bank. A donor making a gift between $200 and $5,000 will have a choice among various sizes of personalized bricks and wall tiles. Donations between $100 and $199 will scroll your name for one year on an electronic Distinguished Donor Digital Wall prominently displayed inside the main donor center. Contact us for additional information or assistance at Visit: For all the details on our Brick and Tile campaign call Or call - (619)

2 San Diego Blood Bank Donor Wins Brand New Honda Insight Hybrid, Compliments of the Honda Dealers of San Diego County, at Chargers Blood Drive XXXIII! Jane and Jong Miclat and their family. While local hospital patients were the real winners on Tuesday, November 22, at the Chargers Blood Drive at the Town & Country Convention Center, Virgilio Jong Miclat of Chula Vista and his family felt extremely lucky too. The Miclat family won the Chargers Blood Drive annual Honda Car Giveaway! Jong and Jane Miclat bought 11 tickets for the Honda raffle when, as blood donors, they received the offer in the mail from the San Diego Blood Bank. Jane says they bought the tickets first, to help and second, because they really need a car! At the 33rd annual Chargers Blood Drive, the ticket buyers who had been chosen at random each picked a car key in front of the packed crowd at the convention center. Then one by one, each contestant tried his or her key in the door of the Honda CR-V. Before Jong stepped up as the seventh contestant to try his key, his 9-year old daughter Jesa, kissed the key for good luck. It worked! About 3,000 people turned out for the 33rd annual Chargers Blood Drive, helping the blood bank collect more than 1,000 pints of blood for local hospital patients. The Chargers Blood Drive was made possible by presenting sponsor San Diego County Credit Union, and major sponsors Honda Dealers of San Diego County, Grossmont Healthcare District, Darrell and Kathy Issa and the Issa Family Foundation, AT&T and American Icon Autographs.

3 Grossmont Healthcare District and San Diego Blood Bank Deliver Winter Wishes Dominic, a patient at Grossmont Hospital, was thrilled to receive a plush polar bear from San Diego Blood Bank blood donors who used their store points to give Winter Wishes to patients during the holidays. We can t say it enough. But we are saying it from the bottom of our heart. On behalf of the more than 120,000 children and adults every year who use blood and blood products provided by the San Diego Blood Bank, we say Thank You to Wells Fargo, Grossmont Healthcare District, Moneytree, Barona Resort & Casino, SDG&E and Union Bank. Their charitable gifts to the San Diego Blood Bank are helping to save lives that otherwise would be lost Shared On Facebook Supporting KFMB Stations, Patriots Day and Veterans Day Blood Drives Through these San Diego Blood Bank signature blood drives, Wells Fargo, Grossmont Healthcare District, Union Bank, SDG&E, and Barona Resort & Casino have helped us collect hundreds of pints of lifesaving blood and blood products. Tabitha Lanuza: I m so thankful to all those who donate blood. I wouldn t be here today if it weren t for you! 2011 San Diego Blood Bank 3636 Gateway Center Ave., Suite 100, San Diego, CA SanDiegoBloodBank.org foundation@sandiegobloodbank.org

4 Tour one of the most advanced blood banks in the country A special area is reserved to store more than 2,000 umbilical cord blood units in super-cold liquid nitrogen freezers. Demand for umbilical cord blood, rich in stem cells, gathered without harm to mothers or babies, is growing with the rapid development of regenerative medicine. Blood banking is more closely aligned than ever with the operations of biotech companies and the life sciences. So this year the San Diego Blood Bank shed its old skin and moved into vastly larger, better designed facilities to be able to adapt to innovation and increasingly stringent regulations for years to come. It is now one of the most efficient blood banks in the country. The new site is approximately 2½ miles east of downtown, conveniently close to Interstates 5 and 805, CA-15, and CA-94. The facilities are home to the organization s 10 bloodmobiles and most of its 280 employees. On a typical day, the quality control, platelet culturing, immunohematology, and components labs process more than 300 units of blood for distribution to local hospitals. These include all the pediatric blood products used at Rady Children s Hospital. The morning starts early in the spacious warehouse and garage areas. These are where bloodmobile crews transfer the day s supplies from carts prepared the night before onto the departing mobile collection vehicles. Thanks to a new, massive emergency power generator on the premises, the blood bank s operations were not disrupted by the September 9 blackout. No blood products were lost, and the organization was able to come to the rescue of hospitals affected by the power loss. In one instance, the blood bank replaced the entire blood supply lost at one site due to refrigeration failure. With 95,000 square feet of space, the new building is more than twice the size of the old main building on Upas Street adjacent to Balboa Park. We re proud of our new home and are ready to show it off to the blood bank s friends at any time. If you would like to have a behind-the-scenes look at the blood banking process, please contact us for tour dates and times. Call Claudine in the Foundation at

5 $70,000 in major support saves umbilical cord blood units Major grants from the San Diego Foundation donor-advised funds supported by Audrey In partnership with the San Diego Blood Bank to help save lives every day with safe, adequate supplies of donated blood. NON-PR0FIT US POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO Gateway Center Ave. Suite 100 San Diego, CA Commemorative Brick & Tile Campaign ISSUE Looking for the perfect gift? We have a suggestion. How about a brick or a tile or even a bench? Geisel and John and Dorothy Helm have made it Say it Now. Say it Always. possible for the blood bank to save approximately 1,000 umbilical cord blood units. This represents 40% of its inventory of this special type of blood. The blood bank used the gifts to order a sophisticated liquid nitrogen freezer for storing cord blood at temperatures lower than minus 150 Celsius. The support arrived just in time to allow the safe move of the units from the old Upas Street building to the Cell Therapy Center located at the new headquarters. Cord blood units are currently listed on the National Marrow Donor Program registry to be searched for possible transplant matches for patients with leukemia and other diseases or Helping to Recognize San Diego County Companies Half of the San Diego Blood Bank s blood supply is collected through mobile blood drives held at private companies, churches, schools, civic groups and more. Mercer Health & Benefits salutes these caring organizations by helping to cover costs of the annual Chairperson s Recognition Event. This event is organized by the San Diego Blood Bank every year to thank the chairpeople who help organize these lifesaving mobile blood drives. Thank you Mercer Health and Benefits. INSIDE THIS EDITION Thanks go out to our event sponsors Transylvania Golf Classic a Bloody Good Time Donor John Adkins family and friends joke with him that his birthday parties are quite draining. That s because for the last eight of those birthdays they ve celebrated at the San Diego Blood Bank, with all party-goers giving blood. This conditions. Saving 1,000 cord blood units meant year, 13 of John s friends and families joined him preventing the loss of up to 1,000 potentially lifea very haunted course. saving patient matches. Audrey Geisel is the president of the Dr. Seuss Foundation, which has generously granted funds to the San Diego Blood Bank on many past occasions. Mr. and Mrs. Helm have been generous and extraordinarily faithful donors for more than 15 years. Donating blood as a birthday gift! Saving Lives in Southwest County On behalf of the seriously ill and injured patients of the Southwest County, we thank San Diego County Credit Union for funding the lifesaving programs of the San Diego Blood Bank. Your gifts are saving lives in the Southwest County! The San Diego Blood Bank s eighth annual Transylvania Golf Classic was a bloody good time, raising over $37,000 for our lifesaving programs and services. A special thanks to our Presenting Sponsor, Sycuan Resort & Casino, as well as supporting sponsors JetBlue Airways and Diamonds Forever. Chargers Blood Drive Transylvania Golf Classic Support the Blood Bank Through Estate and Financial Planning By naming the San Diego Blood Bank in your will or living trust, you can strengthen the San Diego Blood Bank for future generations. You can include a message on any of those, and it will be placed at the Commemorative Entry Plaza at the San Diego Blood Bank s new headquarters and main donor center. Your commemorative brick, tile or bench will become a lasting, living memory as part of our plaza which will be welcoming more than 18,000 donors a year. to donate and then headed over to Sanfilippo s restaurant in Hillcrest to continue the party. John turned 57 this year. He s a retired firefighter who says at this point in his life he doesn t need gifts, thus the idea to have his friends and family celebrate with him by giving to others. It s just part of giving back John says. Many of our friends set aside a certain percentage or dollar amount for the blood bank after they have provided for their heirs. Others leave life insurance, IRA s, or other assets. We would be happy to discuss how a planned gift may benefit you, your heirs, and the San Diego Blood Bank. A donor making a gift between $200 and $5,000 will have a choice among various sizes of personalized bricks and wall tiles. Donations between $100 and $199 will scroll your name for one year on an electronic Distinguished Donor Digital Wall prominently displayed inside the main donor center. Contact us for additional information or assistance at Visit: For all the details on our Brick and Tile campaign call Or call - (619)

6 $70,000 in major support saves umbilical cord blood units Major grants from the San Diego Foundation donor-advised funds supported by Audrey In partnership with the San Diego Blood Bank to help save lives every day with safe, adequate supplies of donated blood. NON-PR0FIT US POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO Gateway Center Ave. Suite 100 San Diego, CA Commemorative Brick & Tile Campaign ISSUE Looking for the perfect gift? We have a suggestion. How about a brick or a tile or even a bench? Geisel and John and Dorothy Helm have made it Say it Now. Say it Always. possible for the blood bank to save approximately 1,000 umbilical cord blood units. This represents 40% of its inventory of this special type of blood. The blood bank used the gifts to order a sophisticated liquid nitrogen freezer for storing cord blood at temperatures lower than minus 150 Celsius. The support arrived just in time to allow the safe move of the units from the old Upas Street building to the Cell Therapy Center located at the new headquarters. Cord blood units are currently listed on the National Marrow Donor Program registry to be searched for possible transplant matches for patients with leukemia and other diseases or Helping to Recognize San Diego County Companies Half of the San Diego Blood Bank s blood supply is collected through mobile blood drives held at private companies, churches, schools, civic groups and more. Mercer Health & Benefits salutes these caring organizations by helping to cover costs of the annual Chairperson s Recognition Event. This event is organized by the San Diego Blood Bank every year to thank the chairpeople who help organize these lifesaving mobile blood drives. Thank you Mercer Health and Benefits. INSIDE THIS EDITION Thanks go out to our event sponsors Transylvania Golf Classic a Bloody Good Time Donor John Adkins family and friends joke with him that his birthday parties are quite draining. That s because for the last eight of those birthdays they ve celebrated at the San Diego Blood Bank, with all party-goers giving blood. This conditions. Saving 1,000 cord blood units meant year, 13 of John s friends and families joined him preventing the loss of up to 1,000 potentially lifea very haunted course. saving patient matches. Audrey Geisel is the president of the Dr. Seuss Foundation, which has generously granted funds to the San Diego Blood Bank on many past occasions. Mr. and Mrs. Helm have been generous and extraordinarily faithful donors for more than 15 years. Donating blood as a birthday gift! Saving Lives in Southwest County On behalf of the seriously ill and injured patients of the Southwest County, we thank San Diego County Credit Union for funding the lifesaving programs of the San Diego Blood Bank. Your gifts are saving lives in the Southwest County! The San Diego Blood Bank s eighth annual Transylvania Golf Classic was a bloody good time, raising over $37,000 for our lifesaving programs and services. A special thanks to our Presenting Sponsor, Sycuan Resort & Casino, as well as supporting sponsors JetBlue Airways and Diamonds Forever. Chargers Blood Drive Transylvania Golf Classic Support the Blood Bank Through Estate and Financial Planning By naming the San Diego Blood Bank in your will or living trust, you can strengthen the San Diego Blood Bank for future generations. You can include a message on any of those, and it will be placed at the Commemorative Entry Plaza at the San Diego Blood Bank s new headquarters and main donor center. Your commemorative brick, tile or bench will become a lasting, living memory as part of our plaza which will be welcoming more than 18,000 donors a year. to donate and then headed over to Sanfilippo s restaurant in Hillcrest to continue the party. John turned 57 this year. He s a retired firefighter who says at this point in his life he doesn t need gifts, thus the idea to have his friends and family celebrate with him by giving to others. It s just part of giving back John says. Many of our friends set aside a certain percentage or dollar amount for the blood bank after they have provided for their heirs. Others leave life insurance, IRA s, or other assets. We would be happy to discuss how a planned gift may benefit you, your heirs, and the San Diego Blood Bank. A donor making a gift between $200 and $5,000 will have a choice among various sizes of personalized bricks and wall tiles. Donations between $100 and $199 will scroll your name for one year on an electronic Distinguished Donor Digital Wall prominently displayed inside the main donor center. Contact us for additional information or assistance at Visit: For all the details on our Brick and Tile campaign call Or call - (619)