Stories from Canadian Blood Services

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How students can save lives while competing for scholarships this summer

With the Assignment Saving Lives Scholarship Program, recruit donors to win up to $6500 toward your 2024-2025 tuition

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Natalie Pallisco plasma recipient and blood donor posing while out for a run
Plasma

Plasma recipient celebrates 10 years, 1,000 donations with 100km fundraiser

Part of our ‘heroes of financial giving’ series

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Canadian Society of Transplantation’s Circle of Excellence
Inspiration

Canadian Blood Services helps employees become living organ donors

Policies earn organization a place in Canadian Society of Transplantation’s Circle of Excellence

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A Filipino woman, wearing a blue jacket with a Canadian Blood Services pin on her lapel.
Plasma

‘Plasma products saved my daughter’s life’

As World Quality Month ends, Christie Beltran reflects on her daughter’s life-saving plasma transfusion and how she’s ensuring the safety and quality of Canadian Blood Services products for others in need

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How Toyota Canada’s “unlikely” partnership has become a critical link in Canada’s Lifeline

Part of our ‘heroes of financial giving’ series

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Brandon Cotesta of Sudbury, Ont. received immune globulin, a medication made from plasma, to treat immune thrombocytopenia (ITP).
Plasma

Medication made from plasma donations helps fight bleeding disorder

Without immune globulin, Brandon Cotesta could have died at age 12

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Image of Dujon Donaldson wearing a red soccer uniform in front of a soccer goal post
Inspiration

“What we do matters to millions of Canadians and folks around the world.”

Dujon Donaldson, quality assurance manager, on what he values about his career with Canadian Blood Services

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