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Blood Assurance Drive Coordinators LOVE filling all of their open slots for their drives! When all of the slots are filled, that means so many lives are being saved. 🩸 Drive Coordinators help educate and engage their teams, colleagues, family, and friends! When you host a blood drive with Blood Assurance, the drive coordinator publicizes the drive, helps schedule donors, works with our employees to get everything in place and SAVES HUNDREDS OF LIVES in our community! THANK YOU to all of our ama