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This comprehensive guide outlines the steps and strategies to organize successful blood drives as part of the Muslims for Life initiative. It provides insights on team formation, sponsorship, and engaging with external organizations to maximize impact. With detailed instructions on starting, forming teams, and follow-up activities, this guide empowers Jamaat members to contribute significantly to this noble cause. The importance of planning ahead and the role of sponsorship in enhancing the credibility and success of the campaign are highlighted. Moreover, tactics for engaging sponsors, holding meetings, and securing strategic locations for blood drives are included, emphasizing the potential of colleges, religious centers, and civic institutions as effective venues. Through proactive measures and collective efforts, this guide aims to encourage and facilitate the collection of thousands of pints of blood to save lives.
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Muslims for Life How do we go about collecting thousands of pints of blood?
Why do a Blood Drive? • Khilafat and Nizam-i-Jamaat • Wakes up jamaat members (internal) • One of the best ways to introduce jamaat to community (external)
How to Start? • Pray for success • Encourage jamaatand team members especially • Write to Hazur • Offer extra prayers
Think ahead • Need lead time • 4 months beforehand
How to Form Teams? • Involve members by having many teams • Appoint team leaders with 2-6 people working with them • Have a core team of 3-4 team leaders
Follow Up Work • Frequent meetings-face to face/teleconference • Lead and guide discussion but involve everyone in decision process • Develop plan • Assign tasks • Be the driver in the process • Follow-up with team leaders frequently
Sponsorship • Set up meetings with blood collection agencies, sponsors • Core team • Involve them in the collection effort • Try to set up sponsorship with blood collection agency, prominent organizations • Adds credibility • Use sponsors to help you
Meetings with sponsors • In meeting briefly explain • Ahmadiyya Muslim Community • Aim of MFL • Obtain suggestions of other potential sponsors • Find out about existing blood drives • Ideas for new blood drives
Organizations • Colleges and schools are great locations • Week long blood drives at larger colleges • Religious Centers • Civic centers • Fire and Police Departments
How to get the high numbers • Average blood drive will collect 20-50 units • Multiple blood drives • Large blood drives • Stadium • Logistics