Corporate & foundation support

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• Fund a program or sponsor an event

  Support our Special Programs  or Featured Funding Campaign to make a powerful impact on the lives of others. Grant support helps Memorial Blood Centers develop a matching donor base for cancer patients, children with sickle cell disease, and other chronically transfused patients. Generous funders help us replace inefficient vehicles out of our aging fleet with new bloodmobiles that enhance the experience for donors and improve the effectiveness of the blood collection process. Essential funding also enables us to purchase specialized machines when needed and supports our work in reaching out to the next generation of donors to ensure a stable blood supply for years to come.

  In addition, sponsorship opportunities of our annual What’s Your Type? benefit are available. Each of four sponsorship levels offer an excellent opportunity to build brand awareness as an important philanthropic partner among the many financial contributors, board members, and other guests at this well-attended event.

  Request more info

  Contact Wendy Capetz, Director, Marketing and Development at 651-332-7220.

• Matching gifts

  Corporate partners play a vital role in helping us save lives through blood donation. And a Matching Gifts Program is one important way for the business community to support our work, promote philanthropy, and demonstrate a commitment to the issues important to employees and retirees.

  Memorial Blood Centers works in partnership with Community Health Charities Minnesota, an affiliate of Community Health Charities of America, which is the nation’s leading workplace giving organization dedicated to improving lives affected by chronic illness. As a member charity of CHCM we receive contributions made through the organization by thousands of generous employees of nearly 200 organizations. Through CHCM, we also host an employee-giving campaign for our own staff each October.

  Learn More about how your organization can excel as a great place to work and offer your employees charitable choices like Memorial Blood Centers in your workplace giving campaigns.

• Cause marketing opportunities

  American consumers have demonstrated that cause-related marketing can exponentially increase sales, by as much as 74%. In fact, 85% of those responding to a Cone/Duke University Study say they have a more positive image of a product or company when it supports a cause they care about—with health and disease among their top three priorities. Memorial Blood Centers offers a wealth of opportunities to align your business with a cause that matters—saving lives. We invite you to explore how we can help you enhance your corporate brand and benefit the community with a cause-marketing campaign, promotion, or program tailored to your company’s needs—a unique partnership that will give your customers the connection to a meaningful, life-saving issue that motivates them to action. Consider which of the following cause marketing opportunities might be right for you and your organization:

  Co-Brand a Bloodmobile

  Connect your company’s brand with a highly-visible vehicle that criss-crosses the Metro and the Northland to community-sponsored blood drive sites with the important message of how blood donations save the lives of friends, family members, neighbors, and others throughout our communities. Feature your company logo prominently on a new or newly-wrapped bloodmobile.

  Healthy nutrition for donors  

  Become our partner company to promote and protect the health and safety of blood donors. Sponsor a section on our website dedicated to healthy nutrition for donors or co-brand one of our most popular and most requested brochures on the importance of iron and nutrition.
  Healthy Nutrition for Blood Donors

  High School programs

  Co-sponsor events or educational materials used during our extremely successful high school workshop and training sessions that help build capacity in aspiring young student leaders and support their work in organizing ongoing blood drives. Memorial Blood Centers has strong partnerships with many High Schools throughout the Twin Cities and greater Minnesota, and we are continually exploring new and innovative ways to educate young people on the importance of making regular blood donations part of their developing lifestyle.