Patients with COVID-19 Need Your Leadership:
Become a COVID Rescue Team Student Leader and Earn a Scholarship.

Through our virtual blood drive program, student leaders from high schools, colleges and trade schools can recruit family, friends and fellow students to donate blood. And, due to the emergency need for convalescent plasma, for a limited time each COVID Rescue Team Student Leader who successfully recruits at least 30 donation credits will be eligible to receive a scholarship.*

Vitalant tests all blood donations for COVID-19 antibodies so, along with you and our dedicated donors, we can directly help patients fighting coronavirus. As a COVID Rescue Team Student Leader, your donor recruitment efforts will help identify potential convalescent plasma donors. This special blood plasma contains antibodies for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, and each donation could be prescribed to help up to four people still fighting COVID-19.

COVID Rescue Team Student Leader Scholarship Program Details

• The program period runs through February 28, 2021 or until funds are fully distributed.
• All donations must be made by end of day February 28, 2021 to be included.
• To qualify for this limited-time scholarship opportunity, all COVID Rescue Team Student Leaders are required to preregister their blood drive with a Vitalant Donor Recruitment Representative, regardless of the blood drive’s location or format. Student leaders will be provided a unique link to be shared across their networks to recruit donors.
• To count toward the scholarship, donation appointments must be made using the Student Leader’s unique link.
• Vitalant will provide status updates and notify student leaders when they have successfully achieved their goal.
• Scholarships will be distributed by March 31, 2021.
• Scholarships will be dispersed to the designated college, university or trade school in the name of the student.
• No scholarships will be awarded directly to a student.
• Scholarships are not transferable.
• COVID Rescue Team Student Leaders must meet the following eligibility requirements:
  • Be enrolled, or accepted for the following academic year, for post-high school learning at a college, university, community college, or other post-high school facility within the United States.
  • For high school participants, student leaders must be a graduating senior.
• This one-time scholarship program is not associated with any other Vitalant scholarship programs.