Lane Memorial Blood Bank High School Scholarship:
Students Saving Lives

Eligibility requirements:
Current Lane County high school students planning to attend a university, college, community college or vocational school are welcome to apply. (This includes seniors attending college fall ’08)

Qualified use of scholarship:
Scholarship must be used to attend a university, college, community college or vocational school and will be distributed directly to the school on the student’s behalf.

Application requirements:
Propose a summer blood drive (see attached worksheet). Tell us where you will hold it, who you will ask to donate blood, how you will promote the event and when you would like to host your blood drive. To be approved, your proposed blood drive must have at least 20 people willing to donate blood and include a suitable blood drive location (see attached “Bloodmobile Guidelines” and “Basic Requirements”).

Each student may plan only one blood drive but multiple students can plan a drive together. Each blood drive coordinator will be given one raffle entry for every 20 people registering to donate at their blood drive. In the case of a blood drive being planned by multiple students, they may choose to enter the raffle
individually or enter together and split the scholarship if they win. Qualifying blood drives will be held between June 15 and August 22, must have at least 20 people registered to donate and must be new blood drives. A student cannot take over a regularly scheduled blood drive; they must schedule and
organize their own blood drive.

If you have questions about the eligibility of your proposed blood drive, please call Kristi McElhinney. If your proposal is approved, Lane Memorial Blood Bank will contact you on June 6 to schedule a date for your blood drive and begin preparing for it. No more than 30 blood drive proposals will be approved.

General information:
$1000 scholarship awarded to a student for coordinating a successful summer blood drive between June 15 and August 22; winner will be chosen through a raffle on August 23. To be considered successful, a blood drive must have a minimum of 20 people presenting to donate.

Application deadline:
Blood drive proposal (worksheet attached) due by Wednesday, June 4—your proposal will be approved or denied by June 6.

Award date:
The scholarship winner will be drawn at a special event held at LMBB Saturday, August 23. All students holding successful drives will be invited and receive a small gift.

To apply:
Please send your written proposal including your name and contact information to Kristi McElhinney at Lane Memorial Blood Bank. Proposals can be emailed, faxed or mailed but must be received no later than June 4.

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Program Information: High School Scholarship.PDF
Blood Drive Proposal: Blood Drive Proposal.PDF

Kristi McElhinney, Community Affairs Coordinator
Lane Memorial Blood Bank
2211 Willamette Street
Eugene, OR 97405
Phone: (541) 484-9111
Fax: (541) 484-6976
Email: kmcelhinney@lmbb.org