Become part of an organization that saves lives!

Each year, more than 30,000 pints of life-saving blood are collected at local high schools, helping save more than 90,000 lives.
Every two seconds, someone in the U.S. needs blood.
Only three percent of Southern California’s eligible population donates blood. That’s not enough.
Forty percent of the blood American Red Cross provides local hospitals is imported from other parts of the country. We need to collect more locally.
Twenty percent of blood recipients are children. That means on average, more than 250 children need blood daily in Southern California hospitals.
American Red Cross needs to provide approximately 1,100 units of blood each day to meet local patient needs.

The Red Cross Supplies 45% of the blood for the United States and more than 60% of the blood for Southern California.

We respond to 67,000 disasters each year-from wildfires to house fires to floods.

Trains 12 million people a year in life-saving skills like CPR and water safety.
Relays 4,000 messages per day between military members and their families.

Each time you encourage others to give blood, new donors become a "base" for a lifetime of life-saving blood donations.