GIVEfest blood and food drive to help meet community needs

Posted 8/18/16

Rhode Island PBS, the Rhode Island Blood Center, and the Rhode Island Community Food Bank are proud to partner to create a special summertime giving opportunity - GIVEfest - to help serve the community. The event will take place on Tuesday, Aug. 30, from

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GIVEfest blood and food drive to help meet community needs

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Rhode Island PBS, the Rhode Island Blood Center, and the Rhode Island Community Food Bank are proud to partner to create a special summertime giving opportunity – GIVEfest – to help serve the community. The event will take place on Tuesday, Aug. 30, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the parking lot of the Rhode Island Community Food Bank, 200 Niantic Ave. in Providence, on the Cranston line.

With two ways to give, the public is invited to donate a pint of blood and bring a non-perishable food item. For those who cannot donate blood, a food donation alone is most welcome.

Non-perishable food items collected during this event help feed more than 60,000 Rhode Islanders who visit various food pantries across the state every month. Gifts of food items during the event will help the Food Bank reach its Summer Food Drive goal to collect 150,000 pounds of food by Aug. 31.

The Rhode Island Blood Center has supplied hospitals and patients in Rhode Island and nearby Massachusetts and Connecticut with lifesaving blood components for more than three decades. Over the past 37 years, much has changed in blood banking and transfusion medicine, but the fundamental concept of volunteer blood donors providing the gift of life for patients in need is as important as ever. The need does become more acute during the summer when regular donors – including college students – are away on vacation.

Food bank staff will offer tours of the facility, sharing behind-the-scenes view of operations. Also, as the event spans the lunch hour, food trucks will be in the vicinity.

Blood donors must be at least 16 years old, and parental consent is required. Minimum weight for donors 17 years and older is 110 pounds; minimum weight for 16 year olds is 130 pounds. Photo identification is required for all blood donors. For questions about eligibility or medical requirements, please call Rhode Island Blood Center nurse’s confidential line at 401-453-8307.

WSBE Rhode Island PBS transmits standard-definition (SD) and high-definition (HD) content over the air on digital 36.1; on Rhode Island cable services: Cox 08 / 1008HD, Verizon FiOS 08 / 508HD, Full Channel 08; on Massachusetts cable services: Comcast 819HD, Verizon 18 / 518HD; on satellite: DirecTV 36 / 3128HD, Dish Network 36. WSBE Learn transmits over the air on digital 36.2; on cable: Cox 808, Verizon 478, Full Channel 89, Comcast 294 or 312.

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  • richardcorrente

    This is another event that Warwick can and should duplicate. More exposure to Warwick creates more visitors that become new home buyers and new businesses. In the last 10 years Warwick has lost 5,800 taxpayers and 4,666 businesses. Avedisian does nothing to attract new taxpayers and has raised taxes every year for 16 YEARS IN A ROW to make them leave in increasing numbers.

    I met a college professor this morning who told me that Warwick's largest export is "educated taxpayers".My plan to promote Warwick to the rest of R.I. will increase the number-of-taxpayers which will decrease the amount-per-taxpayer.

    Please visit www.correntemayorwarwick.com

    Thank You.

    Richard Corrente

    Endorsed Democrat for Mayor

    Thursday, August 18, 2016 Report this