Finalist, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenge: Saving Lives at Birth.

Funded TV spot, encouraging blood donation to help post-earthquake recovery in Haiti.

Early equipment donations include portable donation beds to Cambodia, blood mixers to Rwanda, centrifuges to Mexico, hemapheresis technology to Nigeria…

Participated in the Ghanaian Ebola Readiness and Resilience Initiative.

Blood Systems Inc. (now Vitalant) and others join the Open Arms program, offering their donors the opportunity to have a financial donation made by the blood center on their behalf to support GBF’s work. To be joined by New York Blood Center, BioBridge and many more.

Signed MoU with AfSBT (Africa Society for Blood Transfusion).

In collaboration with Rotary, donated two volumes of a newly published technical manual to every country in Latin America.

Grants distributed for activity in Ghana; Kenya; Tanzania; Zambia and Uganda.

GBF signs MoU with AABB (American Association of Blood Banks).

Facilitated sharing of Latin American donor management best practice with African blood bankers.

Over 600 portable donation beds (purchase value approaching $1,000,000) gifted to Mexico and Nigeria.

In partnership with AATM (the Asian Association of Transfusion Medicine) GBF ran the first of a number of international “story contests” to generate donor and patient narratives to complement the traditional industry focus on statistics.

Staff training program delivered in Namibia.

GBF (Europe) established as a Charitable Incorporated Organization in the UK.

Donated over 40,000 new blood bags (value in excess of $500,000) to Cameroon.

Together with England’s NHS Blood and Transplant, conducted successful pilot of pre-donation blood typing (as a recruitment strategy) in Uganda.

Together with a consortium of US blood centers, delivered support (e.g. red cell exchange therapy) for sickle cell disease patients in DRC and Nigeria.

Received substantial funding from the Commonwealth Transfusion Foundation to help combat the Global Transfusion Crisis.

In partnership with SANBS (the South African National Blood Service), held the first International Donor Recruitment Engagement and Management workshop in Johannesburg.

Six three-bed blood mobiles donated to Asia and Africa.

First collaborative activity with ISBT (International Society of Blood Transfusion), donating transfusion medicine textbooks across Africa.

GBF publishes and distributes the book “Unlocking the Potential for Blood Adequacy in Africa”.

Launch of Pledge 25 Club activity to help aid the retention of high-school blood donors.

First in-country Pledge 25 Club training delivered, for Uganda.

GBF helps purchase Trima technology for Nigeria, enabling stem cell transplantation for the first time.

Significant $$$ donations from Terumo BCT, Abbott, Immucor. We thank these and other industry supporters – Macopharma, Haemonetics, Fresenius, Applied Science, HemaTerra and many more – for their financial and in-kind support.

Training series delivered to KNBTS (Kenya National Blood Transfusion Service).

Stood up research program in Tanzania to establish the cost-effectiveness of switching from qualitative to quantitative Hb testing.

COVID-19 information, education and communication resources donated to multiple countries in Africa and Latin America.

Pandemic-related grants program provided funding for, e.g., research in Cameroon, donor education in Nigeria.

Launch of cloud-based Blood Donor Recruiter Education and Certification Program, consisting of 12 X 30-minute narrated video modules to facilitate distance learning.