You're the key!
Your time, effort and enthusiasm as a Donor Group Chairperson are as vital as the blood you'll help us collect. We rely completely on volunteer donations with 65% of the blood supply coming from group-sponsored drives like yours.

You can feel good about helping us provide nearly 300 pints of blood every day to meet the needs of our central and eastern Kentucky neighbors. Hosting and chairing a blood drive may be the most critical community service you can give.

You're in Charge!
Congratulations! You've just volunteered for a responsibility that will result in lives being saved! To help you with this vital work, KBC will assign a Donor Recruitment Specialist (DRS) to work with you to help ensure that your drive is successful. (SEE BELOW FOR A LIST OF DONOR RECRUITMENT SPECIALISTS)

Your Recruitment Specialist will help you:

Choose a date, time and site
KBC schedules six - eight mobiles blood drives every day, so adequate lead time is imperative to securing the best date for your group. Typically we want to have a firm schedule of drives three months before they take place. This allows adequate time to schedule everything needed for the drive (vehicle, staff, equipment, supplies, promotional items).

With your Donor Recruitment Specialist, choose a date, time and place that will accommodate the largest number of donors. Bear in mind that our bloodmobile requires a level 12 ft. x 50 ft. parking space. Indoor space for a portable set-up should be near an easily accessible entrance and should be near bathrooms.

Set a goal
The goal you set becomes part of the average daily supply we rely on to meet community needs. Your DRS can help you set a realistic goal and attain it.

Establish a recruitment team
If there are more than 50 people in your group, you will want to ask others to help you introduce and promote the drive . as well as recruit donors!

Recruit donors
Your DRS will provide posters, flyers and other recruitment tools and can make educational/motivational presentations. But the fact is, NOTHING succeeds like human contact.
Ideally, you (or a team member) should talk to every person in your group. One of the most common reasons people don't donate blood is that nobody asked them!

Schedule donors
We'll provide information and a sign-up sheet for scheduling donors for the drive. Sign ups show respect for the donor's time and will help minimize any wait.

Stay involved
On the day of the blood drive, provide the Team Leader of the KBC staff a copy of the donor schedule (sign-up list) and communicate throughout the day with the KBC blood collection staff.

Evaluate the drive
Ask for donors' comments. Review the results with your DRS to help improve future drives. And remember to send a blood drive evaluation survey (a brochure called "How Are We Doing?") back to KBC for our records.

     Do you have what it takes to host a blood drive?

 Fill out the simple form below and a Donor Recruitment Specialist will contact you.

DONOR RECRUITMENT TEAM

ASSIGNED COUNTIES

Lisa Vandermale
800-775-2522 ext. 3852

lvandermale@kybloodcenter.org

Peggy Akin 606-679-7413, ext. 4710 pakin@kybloodcenter.org

Clay, Harlan, Jackson, Knox, Laurel, Leslie and Whitley counties

Sarah Darnall
800-775-2522 ext. 3744

sdarnall@kybloodcenter.org

Sarah Edgington 859-276-2534, ext. 3742 sedgington@kybloodcenter.org

Anderson, Fayette, Garrard, Jackson, Jessamine and Madison counties

Dianne Kennedy

888-775-2522 ext. 3746

dkennedy@kybloodcenter.org

Bath, Clark, Estill, Fleming, Lee, Menifee, Montgomery, Powell and Wolfe counties

Kayla Kolb
800-775-2522 ext. 3745

kkolb@kybloodcenter.org

Bruce Maples
Donor Recruitment Manager

859-276-2534, ext. 3718

Donor Recruitment Manager

Karen Roach 859-276-2534, ext. 3743 kroach@kybloodcenter.org

Church Blood Drive Specialist

Loretta Robinson 606-679-7413, ext. 4703 lrobinson@kybloodcenter.org

Adair, Casey, Cumberland, Lincoln, McCreary, Pulaski, Rockcastle, Russell and Wayne counties 

Boyd, Carter, Elliott, Greenup, Johnson, Lawrence, Lewis, Magoffin, Martin, Morgan, and Rowan counties.

David Whitt
859-794-5279

or toll free, 800-775-2522, ext. 5712

dwhitt@kybloodcenter.org

Breathitt, Floyd, Knott, Letcher, Owsley, Perry and Pike counties

Or contact

Bruce Maples
Donor Recruitment Manager

859-276-2534, ext. 3718

Debbie Southworth

Assistant

859-276-2534, ext. 3747

or toll free, 800-775-2522

bmaples@kybloodcenter.org

dsouthworth@kybloodcenter.org