Financial Gifts

We greatly appreciate your Gifts of Life through blood donation. However, there are other ways to participate.

Your financial contributions support our life-saving mission in these ways:

  • Public education and awareness programs
  • Donor facility improvements and expansions
  • New mobile donor vehicles and equipment
  • Reference and scientific support laboratories improvements
  • Product management equipment needed to process and store blood components
  • Educational scholarship available to qualifying high school blood donors
  • Bone marrow donor awareness and registry recruitment programs

Our Promise to You

  • Your gift helps ensure a continuously sufficient blood supply for your local medical facilities.
  • You can give in memory or honor of a friend, family member, or other special person.
  • Your gift will be publicly acknowledged on our website, or if you prefer, it can remain anonymous.
  • Your gift is tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.
  • You will receive a written acknowledgement expressing our thanks.
  • You will receive an annual statement of your previous calendar year’s contributions.
  • Your trust in LifeShare important to us; we do not share our contributor information with any outside entity.
  • See our Donor Bill of Rights

          LifeShare Blood Center, established in Shreveport, La. in 1942, regularly supplies blood components and related services to more than 100 medical facilities and hospitals throughout Louisiana, East Texas and South Arkansas. LifeShare is a member of America’s Blood Centers and the American Rare Donor Program, is licensed by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, and accredited by AABB. LifeShare Blood Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community blood bank governed by a volunteer Board of Trustees.