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		<title>Blood Donor Wins Schlitterbahn Tickets While Helping Save Lives</title>
		<link>http://www.giveblood.org/blog/2010/05/blood-donor-wins-schlitterbahn-tickets-while-helping-save-lives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 17:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meagan Raeke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Donors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blood donor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commit for Life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center would like to congratulate blood donor Joe Garza for winning a four-pack of tickets to Schlitterbahn Galveston through The Blood Center’s Family Vacation Month giveaway. Individuals who donated or attempted to donate between April 1 and 30 were automatically entered in the giveaway.
Garza, who lives in the South Houston area, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mobile Supervisor Donates Bone Marrow for Sickle Cell Patient</title>
		<link>http://www.giveblood.org/blog/2010/04/mobile-supervisor-donates-bone-marrow-for-sickle-cell-patient/</link>
		<comments>http://www.giveblood.org/blog/2010/04/mobile-supervisor-donates-bone-marrow-for-sickle-cell-patient/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meagan Raeke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Donors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[be the match]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gulf coast marrow donor program]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.giveblood.org/blog/?p=1896</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When Mobile Supervisor II Tinisha O’Neil started working at The Blood Center in 2003, she decided to join the millions of people willing to donate bone marrow to a complete stranger through Be The Match Registry, operated by the National Marrow Donor Program.
Finding a bone marrow match is extremely difficult. Even though the registry now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Image of the Week: Donating at Westchase</title>
		<link>http://www.giveblood.org/blog/2010/04/image-of-the-week-donating-at-westchase/</link>
		<comments>http://www.giveblood.org/blog/2010/04/image-of-the-week-donating-at-westchase/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meagan Raeke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Image of the Week]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blood drive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[give blood]]></category>
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Jolly Jose shows off the 103.7 FM koozies he received at the Westchase Neighborhood Donor Center on April 15. He donated for his mother during the 103.7 FM Earth Days promotions and was entered to win a pair of Jack Johnson concert tickets.
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		<title>Save Lives and Inspire Others as a Commit for Life Volunteer</title>
		<link>http://www.giveblood.org/blog/2010/04/save-lives-and-inspire-others-as-a-commit-for-life-volunteer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.giveblood.org/blog/2010/04/save-lives-and-inspire-others-as-a-commit-for-life-volunteer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meagan Raeke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Volunteers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commit for Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community advocates]]></category>

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They are the smiling faces who hand you a T-shirt and direct you to the cookies and juice after a blood drive. They are the unseen hands that prepared the packet you picked up at a health fair. They are the leaders at your schools and churches who motivate you to sign up to donate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Image of the Week: Opening Day Life-Savers</title>
		<link>http://www.giveblood.org/blog/2010/04/image-of-the-week-opening-day-life-savers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.giveblood.org/blog/2010/04/image-of-the-week-opening-day-life-savers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cortney Martin</dc:creator>
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Volunteer Marsha Asplin signs in a donor to give blood at the Houston Astros Opening Day Blood Drive, held April 5 at Minute Maid Park.  In the background, donors wait in line for their turn to give. The drive collected 160 donations.
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		<title>Image of the Week: Teamwork and the Tallest Tower</title>
		<link>http://www.giveblood.org/blog/2010/03/image-of-the-week-teamwork-and-the-tallest-tower/</link>
		<comments>http://www.giveblood.org/blog/2010/03/image-of-the-week-teamwork-and-the-tallest-tower/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cortney Martin</dc:creator>
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Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center Community Advocates gathered on March 27 for their Spring Community Advocate Training. Advocates from various Neighborhood Donor Centers were grouped together and given the task of working together to build the tallest tower from materials at their tables. The training focused on team building and donor center blood drive success practices.
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		<title>&#8216;Growing the Forest Green&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.giveblood.org/blog/2010/03/growing-the-forest-green/</link>
		<comments>http://www.giveblood.org/blog/2010/03/growing-the-forest-green/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cortney Martin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.giveblood.org/blog/?p=1848</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Between the brick school buildings of North Forest High School lies a little oasis &#8211; a garden lined with lush greens that seem to sparkle in the sunlight. It&#8217;s called the &#8220;Up and Atom&#8221; Garden, and it is the result of education, cultivation and lots of hard work.
The garden is a project of North Forest&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Image of the Week: Teamwork in Action</title>
		<link>http://www.giveblood.org/blog/2010/02/image-of-the-week-teamwork-in-action/</link>
		<comments>http://www.giveblood.org/blog/2010/02/image-of-the-week-teamwork-in-action/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cortney Martin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.giveblood.org/blog/?p=1845</guid>
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Yay for teamwork! The Sugar Land Community Advocates held a blood drive on Sunday, Feb. 21, and went to great lengths to spread the word. Because the shopping center where the Sugar Land Neighborhood Donor Center is located doesn&#8217;t allow signs to be posted on the ground, the Advocates posted their sign on member Jimmie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Image of the Week: Saving Lives at Alvin High</title>
		<link>http://www.giveblood.org/blog/2010/01/image-of-the-week-saving-lives-at-alvin-high/</link>
		<comments>http://www.giveblood.org/blog/2010/01/image-of-the-week-saving-lives-at-alvin-high/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cortney Martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Donors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Image of the Week]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[High School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power of Life]]></category>

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First-time blood donor Selena Simmons, 16, shows off a photo of the LifeFlight helicopter taken at The Blood Center&#8217;s Real World educational workshop, held at Memorial Hermann Hospital last year.  Simmons was one of nearly 300 students who donated at Alvin High School&#8217;s blood drive on Jan. 21. High school blood drives make up about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Heart for Jasmine</title>
		<link>http://www.giveblood.org/blog/2010/01/a-heart-for-jasmine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.giveblood.org/blog/2010/01/a-heart-for-jasmine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheena Abraham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Young Jasmine likes to watch Dora the Explorer and listen to music.
&#8220;She&#8217;s always asking for a book,&#8221; said her mother Bridgette Williams, a phlebotomist at Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center for 11 years. A year ago, blood donors made a bright future possible for Jasmine.
Bridgette found her 3-and-a-half year-old daughter in a life-or-death situation. Jasmine&#8217;s face had become swollen with fluids. She started [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They Love to Listen: The Faces Behind Customer Service</title>
		<link>http://www.giveblood.org/blog/2010/01/they-love-to-listen-the-faces-behind-customer-service/</link>
		<comments>http://www.giveblood.org/blog/2010/01/they-love-to-listen-the-faces-behind-customer-service/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheena Abraham</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.giveblood.org/blog/?p=1811</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered: When was my last donation? How do I order an item from the Commit for Life store?
These are the kinds of questions fielded daily by Crista Mosqueda and Kristina Garrett, The Blood Center’s customer service gurus and the first point-of-contact for many donors.

On a typical morning, they kick into high gear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doing Good by Doing Wellness</title>
		<link>http://www.giveblood.org/blog/2010/01/doing-good-by-doing-wellness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.giveblood.org/blog/2010/01/doing-good-by-doing-wellness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Garcia</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[wellness]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.giveblood.org/blog/?p=1786</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Doing Good by Doing Wellness&#8221; is exactly what the Houston Wellness Association hopes to achieve after its third annual Wellness Symposium on January 14 through 16. As a community partner of the symposium, Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center gladly welcomes guest blogger Danielle Marshall of the association who explains how you too can take part [...]]]></description>
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