Make a Financial Gift

Giving blood isn’t the only way to feel amazing at RRVBC! Giving money is also a great way to save lives. Your tax-deductible financial contribution will help us expand our reach into the community so we can continue to serve patients in need. In response to your donation, you will receive a letter from us that may be used to verify your financial contribution.

Charitable gifts can be sent to:
Rock River Valley Blood Center
Attention: Chief Financial Officer
P.O. Box 4307
Rockford, Illinois, 61110

Coming Soon – online donations

As part of our service to the community, RRVBC serves as a donor/apheresis center for the National Marrow Donor Program’s Be the Match Registry.

Every year, thousands of patients are diagnosed with leukemia and other diseases that can only be treated by a marrow cell transplant.  Bone marrow or blood stem cell transplant is a life-changing treatment for people of all ages with these diseases.  Transplant may be a patient’s only hope for a cure.  But patients need donor’s who are a close match, and sadly less than 25% of patients will find a match within their family, over 70% depend on the Be The Match registry for their life-saving donor/match.

Millions have joined the Be The Match Registry and stand ready to become bone marrow donors.  Yet there are still many patients who cannot find a match, only 4 out of 10 patients will receive the marrow or blood stem cell transplant they need.  With your support the The Rock River Valley Blood Center’s Be The Match marrow registry can change this.

The total cost to add a new member to the Be The Match registry is about $100.  RRVBC is committed to making the registry available to all who wish to join.  RRVBC must raise these monies to support our community and this program.  While we host the Annual Red Shoe Run for Donor Awareness raising funds to pay some of these costs, we still need contributions from individuals, organizations and corporations.  We need YOU – Your tax-deductible gift helps add more members to our registry, making lifesaving transplants a reality.

Be part of the most uplifting activity imaginable: saving lives.