Virtual Blood Drive

The Kaplan University American Medical Technologist Student Society, in the School of Health Sciences, is conducting a virtual blood drive as their 2010 service project. The service project must be something that applies to the field of health and benefits the community.

The virtual blood drive will be held August 1 through September 30. We would like you to save the date and pledge to donate today at

https://kaplanuniversityaehs.wufoo.com/forms/virtual-blood-drive. You can choose to donate blood anytime within August or September. Remember, you must wait 56 days in between blood donations, which is why we are notifying you now.

How do you conduct an online blood drive? You can make a donation with ANY blood donation organization. We are partnering specifically with the Red Cross, which can supply you with information about local blood donation centers and/or drives in your location. If the Red Cross does not have a blood drive in your area, you can donate at any entity that takes blood donations (all areas have at least one). Make sure you remember to sign up to pledge to donate.

We look forward to your gift of blood donation; it can save a life. Thank you.

Operation Support Our Troops!

Greetings! I am proud to announce that the Kaplan University OWLS Members will once again be supporting the Operation Give Back Program through the Operation Support Our Troops Campaign.

Join us in supporting our troops who are serving in war torn countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan. We will be collecting items to send to the solidiers in those countries, they will then take them and distribute them to needy children and their families in Iraq and Afghanistan.

To learn more about Operation Support Our Troops please download this flyer. It explains a little bit about what exactly they are looking for as far as donations ..etc.

One lucky OWLS Member will be recruited to recieve all the donations and then forward them on the designated relief center, for distribution to our soldiers. If you are an OWLS m*ember and would like to volunteer to be the host person, please contact our Vice-President, C.J White at Carolynwhite25@student.kaplan.edu

The rest of us, lets donate what we can and help show the world that we care! For a list of exactly what they request that we donate please go here.

For more information on Operation Give Back and their many programs please visit their website.

And last but not least if you are a Kaplan University Student in good standing and are a Non-Traditional (Adult) Student, and either in the School of Health Sciences or the Division of Arts and Sciences, I encourage you to become a member of the OWLS group! You will find the application located on your student desktop under My Community.