1. The scholarship program period is June 1 – Aug. 31. 
2. All virtual blood drives and blood donations must be June 1 – Aug. 31 to be counted toward the student’s scholarship total.  
3. To qualify for the scholarship, students are required to start a virtual blood drive at vbd.vitalant.org and enroll in the Student Leader Scholarship Program.
4. To qualify for the scholarship, students must:
   1. Log in or create an account under the virtual blood drive platform vbd.vitalant.org.
   2. Navigate to “View Profile” and enroll in the Student Leader Scholarship program.
   3. Create a virtual blood drive at vbd.vitalant.org. 
5. Students will be provided a unique blood drive link to recruit blood donors to their scholarship virtual blood drive. 
6. Appointments and donations must be made using the student’s unique virtual blood drive link to count toward the scholarship. 
7. Donations that are not tracked by the student’s scholarship link will not count toward the scholarship.  
8. Donations made to other virtual blood drives, onsite blood drives, blood centers or donation locations will not be added to an individual student’s scholarship virtual blood drive. 
9. To qualify, students must be enrolled or plan to enroll in a college, university, community college, trade school or other post-high school educational facility within the United States. Full-time enrollment is not required.  
10. When the program period ends, students who have met the criteria for an award will receive an email with an online redemption form required for fund distribution to the student’s school.  
11. All virtual blood drives and results are subject to review and verification prior to award notification. 
12. Scholarships will be dispersed to the designated college, university or trade school the student designates, in the student’s name. Awards may not be used for high school tuition or expenses. 
13. Scholarships must be redeemed through the online redemption form within 90 days of initial email notification. Awards that are not redeemed within 90 days of notification will be considered null and void. 
14. This one-time scholarship program is not associated with other Vitalant scholarship programs or promotions.  
15. Students who have received scholarships from Vitalant in the past, and meet all program requirements, are eligible to participate. 
16. Students are responsible for understanding the program guidelines and verifying their program eligibility. 
17. Vitalant reserves the right to not pay the scholarship.  
18. Scholarships will be distributed at the end of the program. Early payouts will not be processed. 
19. It is the student’s responsibility to provide Vitalant accurate redemption information. Vitalant is not responsible for school address verification prior to processing scholarships. 
20. Students should allow a minimum of 6 to 8 weeks for scholarship distribution processing and receipt of payment after redemption information is provided. 
21. Scholarship awards will not be made payable to any individual.  
22. Unused funds paid to a school on behalf of a student may not be refunded by the school to any individual. 
23. Awards will not be held for future payout. 
24. Awards will not be reissued should a student change schools after redemption. 
25. Awards are not transferrable and not redeemable for cash.  
26. Vitalant staff, and friends and family of Vitalant staff, are eligible to participate in the scholarship program if they meet all other requirements.  
27. Vitalant reserves the right to make changes to this program at any time without notification. 

• To start a visit https://www.vitalant.org/host-a-blood-drive/virtual.
• Log in or create an account under the virtual blood drive platform
• Navigate to “View Profile” and enroll in the Student Leader Scholarship program
• Create a virtual blood drive. 

Virtual blood drives are a hyperlink unique to the host, making it easy to track donor participation. And virtual blood drives allow donors across the U.S. to support a host’s drive. Donors can visit any Vitalant donation center or mobile blood drive across the U.S.

Virtual blood drives provide people the opportunity to take part in the vital cause of blood donation. Blood drives are essential to providing lifesaving blood for patients—over half of the blood Vitalant collects comes from coordinator-sponsored blood drives. That’s why your decision to host a virtual blood drive and participate in the Student Leader Scholarhip program is vital to patients. Blood cannot be artificially made; it must come from volunteer donors.

Students must meet the following eligibility requirements to participate: 

To qualify, students must be enrolled or plan to enroll in a college, university, community college, trade school or other post-high school educational facility within the United States. Full-time enrollment is not required.  Virtual blood drives are a convenient way for anyone to host a drive and recruit donors, anywhere in Vitalant’s geographic regions across the U.S. Virtual blood drives enable groups of all types and sizes to get involved in saving lives in their community.

• Easy setup and management: Virtual blood drives are completely self-service. Hosts can set up and manage everything on their own and see the results of their efforts in their account.
• A custom blood drive link for the host organization to easily track donor participation.
• No physical site required.
• Fewer logistical details to manage.
• Ability to recruit donors from various locations as long as there’s a Vitalant donation center or blood drive in their area.
• Donors can choose when and where to donate at any Vitalant location convenient for them.

Yes! Depending on the procedure, a donor may be eligible to give more than once during the scholarship program period. Educating donors about different types of donations, like Power Red and platelet donations, are great ways to support patients and accumulate credits toward a scholarship. You can find educational materials about the different types of donations best suited to a donor’s blood type in the Student Toolkit.

Yes! Students who are eligible are encouraged to donate to their own blood drive. Students need to follow the same process as other donors participating in their blood drive: they need to  schedule an appointment to donate using their unique blood drive.

After the program ends Aug. 31, blood drive results will be audited. Students will be notified of their scholarship award via email in September.

You can view results in your virtual blood drive dashboard. To locate the dashboard, log in to your virtual blood drive page, click "Drive Dashboard", then "Blood Drive Results." Results will update daily.

Once you create a virtual blood drive you will be provided a custom blood drive link to use when recruiting donors to make an appointment for your blood drive. Under that code you will see a “Generate QR Code” box. Click this box to immediately generate your code.

After you've generated a QR code in the virtual blood drive platform, download or screenshot the code. Save it to your phone and/or computer and use it to ask friends, family, teachers and contacts to scan the QR code to make an appointment and support your scholarship blood drive. You can also put the QR code into text messages and post the QR code to social media. By scanning the code, the donor will be linked to your virtual blood drive which will ensure you receive credit for their donation towards earning a scholarship.

Vitalant provides free tools and resources to help you rally your donors and secure their commitment to donate, including social media images sized for Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn, educational flyers, links to patient stories and more. Find them all in the online resource library here. Find them all here.