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Join Vitalant, women’s health advocates and the community to honor and support women who have experienced pregnancy-related complications. Donate for Mothers is a meaningful way for individuals and groups to honor, support and celebrate the diverse mothers in their lives by donating blood or hosting a blood drive any day throughout the year. To find out more about Donate for Mothers, click here

The Colorado Donate for Mothers initiative was an incredible success in 2024.

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Blood Drives

1219

Blood Donations

There are two ways to register to donate blood in support of the Donate for Mothers in May cause:

OPTION 1: Give blood with Donate for Mothers in May at a Vitalant blood drive or donation center. 

Colorado

May 2, 2025
Longmont United Hospital
AdventHealth Porter

May 12, 2025
Faith Lutheran Church
 

May 6, 2025
Sky Ridge Medical Center
Ace Hardware of Jewel Square
Adams 12 Athletics and Activities
Avista Hospital

May 13, 2025
University of Colorado Anschutz - Medical School
Ken Caryl Community
Coldwell Banker Boulder
Kaiser Permanente - Lone Tree
UCHealth - Highlands Ranch
East Morgan County Hospital 

May 15, 2025
Kaiser Permanente - Smoky Hill

May 7, 2025
Middle Park Health
Good Samaritan Medical Center
Yuma District Hospital
CoBank

May 19, 2025
Banner McKee Medical Center
Platte Valley Medical Center
Intermountain Health Lutheran Hospital
St Elizabeth Hospital

May 8, 2025
UCHealth - MAC

May 20, 2025
Immaculate Conception

May 21, 2025
Saint Joseph Hospital
AdventHealth Parker
AdventHealth Castle Rock
Perham Health
Sterling Regional Medical Center

May 10, 2025
Grant and Liam's Blood Drive
In Honor of Beckett Burns

May 11, 2025
Colorado Tap House
First Unitarian Society - Denver
Elizabeth United Methodist Church

May 22, 2025
Longmont United Hospital

May 27, 2025
City of Lafayette
Rose Medical Center
Swedish Medical Center

May 28, 2025
Church of the Holy Comforter
Penrose Hospital

Other Donate for Mothers Blood Drives in Vitalant's Mountain Division. 

North Dakota and South Dakota:

May 12, 2025 - Rapid City, SD
Faith Lutheran Church

May 22, 2025 - Rapid City, SD
Black Hills Federal Credit Union

May 23, 2025 - Rapid City, SD
Monument Health
Black Hills Life Flight

May 23, 2025 - Rapid City, SD
City Hall

May 9, 2025 - Fargo, ND
Sanford Health - Valley City

OPTION 2: Give blood with Donate for Mothers no matter where you live.

  • Simply join the Donate for Mothers virtual blood drive by choosing your preferred donation center below and clicking the link.
  • After you join, you will be redirected to our scheduling site where you can then enter your preferred zip code to make an appointment at any Vitalant donation center or blood drive. 
  • Be sure to use the same email address you used to join the virtual blood drive when you donate to ensure your donation will count toward Donate for Mothers.

 

Boulder 
3113 28th St.
Boulder, CO, 80304
Join the Virtual Blood Drive!
Colorado Springs 
3670 Austin Bluffs Pkwy., Ste. 110
Colorado Springs, CO, 80918
Join the Virtual Blood Drive!
Golden
13952 Denver West Pkwy. Bldg. 53, Ste. 150 
Golden, CO, 80401
Join the Virtual Blood Drive!
Greeley 
1831 65th Ave., Unit 2
Greeley, CO 80634
Join the Virtual Blood Drive!
Denver 
717 Yosemite St.
Denver, CO 80230
Join the Virtual Blood Drive!
Parker 
10233 S Parker Rd Suite #107 
Parker, CO 80134
Join the Virtual Blood Drive!
Littleton 
5066 S. Wadsworth Blvd., Ste. 111
Littleton, CO 80123
Join the Virtual Blood Drive!
Westminster
960 W. 124th Ave.
Westiminster, CO 80234
Join the Virtual Blood Drive!
Highlands Ranch
541 West Highlands Ranch Parkway
Highlands Ranch, CO 80129
Join the Virtual Blood Drive!
Grand Junction
561 25 Rd Suite 102/B
Grand Junction, CO 81505
Join the Virtual Blood Drive!

Donors may also participate in the Donate for Mothers Virtual Blood Drive at Vitalant's Rocky Mountain donation centers. 

  • Click this link to pledge to give for Donate for Mothers in Wyoming. 
  • Click this link to pledge to give for Donate for Mothers in Rapid City. 
  • Click this link to pledge to give for Donate for Mothers in Fargo. 

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LaDonna was 22 weeks pregnant with her first child when she contracted Fifth Disease, which caused her daughter Shantae to stop producing red blood cells. LaDonna only had five percent of her amniotic fluid and needed four intrauterine blood transfusions and 16 amniocenteses to save her daughter Shantae’s life. 

LaDonna now competes for USA track and field, is a blood drive coordinator. She and Shantae are both blood donors. 

"You may not know where your blood is going, but you know it's going to be used in the right way,” LaDonna said. “You never know when someone is going to need that blood."

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Kristin was asleep in bed in the middle of the night when her water broke. Several minutes later she started having a seizure and losing blood. Her husband called the paramedics, and she was rushed to the hospital where she needed an emergency C-section. She suffered from a rare but life-threatening pregnancy complication called an Amniotic Fluid Embolism, and she needed 26 blood transfusions to save her life. When Kristin woke up in the ICU 48 hour later, the first thing she said to her husband was “why are all of these people in our bedroom?” 
 
“I’m just grateful for every moment that I get to be here,” Kristin said. “There are so many people to thank. The paramedics, my husband for calling 911, the doctor that was on-call, but I truly would not be here today if it weren’t for blood donors. I had a massive hemorrhage where I was bleeding out and I would not be alive if those 26 units had not been on the shelf when I arrived at the hospital.” Pregnancy complications like Kristin’s are why we Donate for Mothers. 

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Robin needed multiple blood transfusions after giving birth to her son, Cameron, which caused her to lose about 40% of the blood in her body. It was because of volunteer blood donors that she was able to see her son grow up. 

“To have the opportunity to be a mom and to still be there for my kids means the world to me,” Robin said. “There’s not a day that goes by that I’m not thankful for all of the people that donate blood every single day that change lives and save lives."

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