Blood donations drop over the holidays, but demand at hospitals remains the same. Beginning today, Stanford Blood Center is offering $20 gift cards and a chance to win a $3,000 grocery gift card through the season to donors at their mobile collection units.

The Blood Center was created to meet the increasingly large and complex transfusion needs of Stanford Health Care and the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford.

Donors who complete an appointment between Dec. 18 and Dec. 31 will be entered into a drawing for the $3,000 grocery gift card. All donors receive a $20 gift card. Appointments can be made online.

Blood donations can be made at the following locations:

  • 445 Burgess Drive, Suite 100, Menlo Park
  • 515 South Drive, Suite 20, Mountain View
  • 295 E. Hamilton Ave., Campbell
  • 3738 Fallon Road, Dublin

Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.