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appeal this summer for blood donors of all types, Consumer Cellular employees and their families were glad to step up, as they had many times in the past, and help give back to the community.<\/p>\nWhen I saw the statistics posted on the Red Cross web site I was stunned. Nearly 1.5 million Americans will need a blood transfusion each year. Put another way, someone in America needs blood every two seconds. And some of those in need could be my relatives, friends or neighbors. Yet only 37 percent of the U.S. population is eligible to donate blood, and from that pool of potential donors less than ten percent actually do.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s estimated each pint of blood can save or positively impact up to three lives! So when the Red Cross issued an appeal this summer for blood donors of all types, Consumer Cellular employees and their families were glad to step up, as they had many times in the past, and help give back to the community.<\/p>\n
Twice-a-year blood drives are now a regular part of our company calendar. And in our most recent blood drive\u2014the Portland site\u2019s seventh\u2014we collected 36 pints, six more than our goal.<\/p>\n
Just two weeks earlier, our Phoenix site held their first-ever company sponsored blood drive. They, too, exceeded their donation goals with 42 people signing up to give blood, delivering a total of 27 pints. This means between the two blood drives at both Consumer Cellular sites, we collected 63 pints of blood. In fact, if you count our previous blood drives over the last three years, we\u2019ve donated enough blood to impact over 700 lives.<\/p>\n