NASA takes top honors in Blood Center’s ‘Donor Cup’

Stanford Blood Center's Donor Recruiter Clayton Toller hands Teri Castrejon of NASA-Ames the 2010 Donor Cup for NASA's employee blood drives for the Stanford Blood Center.

NASA took top honors in the 2010 “Donor Cup” — a friendly competition sponsored by the Stanford Blood Center in which local tech organizations rolled up their sleeves to out-give their competitors. Rounding out the top five were SLAC, NVIDIA, Cisco and Brocade.

Donor Cup blood drives, hosted by 27 different tech-based organizations in the Bay Area throughout last year, were ranked and evaluated in several categories, including most units collected, highest percentage of first-time donors and percentage of participation. CLAYTON TOLLER, a donor recruiter for the Blood Center with a penchant for sports statistics, used NASCAR-style ranking to determine the winners of the competition.

“To even be eligible to compete in Donor Cup, companies had to host at least four blood drives in 2010,” Toller said. “That alone makes each of the 27 participants already a big contributor to the local blood supply.”

The full announcement is available on the School of Medicine’s website.

-Brooke Wilson