"Give a Pint, Get a Pint"

"Give a Pint, Get a Pint"...of course, in my Irish ancestors' homeland, this would be a totally different promotion than the one I took part in. = )

I spent some time yesterday at the Edmond location of the Oklahoma Blood Institute helping with the "Give a Pint, Get a Pint" promotion.  I greeted people and handed out pints of milk, ice cream cups, healthy dairy recipe books, these limited production red shirts, squishy stress cows, and thanks to each person who came to donate blood.

They projected to perform 125 procedures.

They had 261 people register to give.

202 people we able to give blood! (They actually had a needle in their arm and gave a product of blood.)

7 folks were first-time donors because of the promotion! (They’ve never seen them at OBI before!)

202-125= 77 people (62%) over their projected goal for the day because you all are awesome!!!

“Since 202 people were able to give DairyMax and the milk producers of Oklahoma helped save up to 606 lives yesterday!!!! Pretty awesome numbers if you ask me! It is partners like DairyMax that help support the community blood supply and our life-saving mission throughout the year.”

It was great to be part of a promotion that will help save lives.