Masks For Memphis

Do you have student(s) looking to promote social change?

As one of the largest providers of biotherapies in the nation, Vitalant ensures a safe blood supply to the U.S. population, but summers are a little tough. With high schools and colleges being out for the summer, the number of blood donors drops drastically in our region.

That’s where you step in . . .

We are searching for community minded student leaders who are rising high school seniors planning to be dually enrolled or are entering college freshman or undergraduate students planning to enroll in a post-high school educational institution within the United States for fall 2024 or spring 2025. Help us engage students in the Vitalant Summer Student Leader Scholarship Program!

By volunteering to participate in Vitalant’s Student Leader Scholarship Program, students will play a significant role in building, diversifying, and growing our community’s blood supply while enhancing their skills in the areas of community engagement, program planning, and health education. For their service, students can earn a scholarship up to $1,000. Here is the basic criteria to participate:

Student Leader Scholarship Program Criteria

Be enthusiastic about volunteering to save lives!
Acquire basic knowledge about blood donor eligibility and the blood donation process.
Plan to spend a minimum of 5 hours actively recruiting blood donors to your virtual blood drive.
Be enrolled in, or planning to enroll in, a post-high school educational institution accredited in the United States in fall 2024 or spring 2025. Community college, trade school, college, university, and post-graduate studies qualify.
Register to participate at https://www.vitalant.org/scholarship.
Earn points for every person that donates blood through your virtual blood drive link at a Vitalant Blood Drive or Vitalant Blood Donor Center.
Max scholarship award is $1,000 based on points earned through successful blood donations.
Program runs from June 1st – August 31st, 2024.
Save Our Summer and Save Lives!
One blood donation can save up to 3 lives, so students participating in this community service focused scholarship program will be vital to saving so many lives in Memphis and the Mid-South. Please share this information with your students, and once registered, a member of the Vitalant Team will reach out to them. For more information, please visit www.Vitalant.org/scholarship or send an email to Keisha Walker, Vitalant Memphis Community Affairs Manager, at [email protected].

Student Leader Scholarship Program | Vitalant Sign Up Here

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We at M4M are grateful to have distributed over 8k masks to the Memphis community during 2020!

We have exceeded our goals and we thank everyone who supported and donated.

Special thank to community partners : Our Grass Our Roots Legacy of Legends CDC Block Party for Peace Raleigh CDC

An extra loud moment of gratitude for our persistent and caring elected officials that financially sowed and supported this effort for their constituents: Councilwoman Michalyn Easter-Thomas State Rep. Antonio Parkinson Councilwoman Rhonda Logan - District 1 County Commissioner Tami Sawyer Althea Greene JB Smiley Jr. Mickell Lowery Willie Brooks For County Commission School Board Member Stephanie Love and City Councilman Jeff Warren.

We hope that this pandemic will subside and get under control very soon. If the need doesn’t masks does arise, you can count on us to do our best efforts.
Until then, continue to be safe, social distance as much as possible, and mask up!

Join us on this Saturday as Masks for Memphis has its Grand Giveaway!

Over 3,000 masks, PPE, and gifts for seniors will be distributed!

Free coffee for the first 100 visitors!

This year has shown us what is possible to do for others when we work together.

Thank you so much to our partners:
Our Grass Our Roots
Legacy of Legends CDC
Block Party for Peace
Raleigh CDC
Memphis Urban League
Henry Masks

Extra Special Thank You to our elected official supporters:
County Commissioner Tami Sawyer
City Councilwoman Michalyn Easter-Thomas
State Representative Antonio Parkinson
City Councilwoman Rhonda Logan
City Councilman Dr. Jeff Warren
County Commissioner Mickell Lowery
County Commissioner Willie Brooks
School Board Commissioner Stephanie Love
School Board Commissioner Dr. Althea Greene
City Councilman JB Smiley Jr.

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Mask for Memphis campaign halfway to its goal. The Mask for Memphis campaign is halfway to its goal of distributing free 5,000 masks in North Memphis.

Mask for Memphis campaign halfway to its goal. The Mask for Memphis campaign is halfway to its goal of distributing free 5,000 masks in North Memphis.

Thank you to our donors, elected official reps, and location hosts! This past Saturday we distributed over 1,000 hand sewn masks made by local crafters during Round 2 of Masks for Memphis! This brings our total to 2,400 masks distributed!

It is important that we wear our masks Memphis, but we have to provide the resources where we can! Round 3 distribution will be this fall, and we are close to reaching our 5,000 mask goal!

Thank you to our elected officials in the North that have stepped up and collaborated in this initiative:
- City Councilwoman Michalyn Easter-Thomas
- City Councilwoman Rhonda Logan
- City Councilman JB Smiley, Jr,
- City Councilman Dr. Jeff Warren
- County Commissioner Tami Sawyer
- County Commissioner Willie Brooks
- County Commissioner Mickell Lowery
- School Board Commissioner Rev. Althea Greene
- School Board Commissioner Stephanie Love
- State Representative Antonio Parkinson

This effort is sponsored by Our Grass Our Roots, nonprofit.

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Next mask giveaway: AUGUST 6TH!
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To all Black Memphians, as well as to all descendants of Black ancestors in this country, I would like to personally wish you a Happy Juneteenth holiday!

I encourage you to use this time to reflect on the “stony road we have trod,” rejoice for we are “out from our gloomy past ,” and resist all systemic pressures and forces that do not contribute to racial and social progress!

As of June 16th’s City Council Meeting, my resolution to establish Juneteenth as a City Holiday was passed unanimously. The City of Memphis will offer a paid holiday for Juneteenth beginning in 2021.

This is our day. Enjoy. ✊🏾
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Thanks so much to everyone who has reached out! We're taking a few days to re-group and figure out how we can do this amazing project again - hang tight! And mask up.
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Mid-South lawmakers hold ‘Masks for Memphis’ giveaway to battle spread of COVID-19 Hundreds of people most at-risk for contracting coronavirus were able to get free masks on Saturday, thanks to a fundraiser and giveaway organized by three local lawmakers.

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Mid-South lawmakers hold ‘Masks for Memphis’ giveaway to battle spread of COVID-19 Hundreds of people most at-risk for contracting coronavirus were able to get free masks on Saturday, thanks to a fundraiser and giveaway organized by three local lawmakers.

Y’all. Y’alllllllllll!!! We met hundreds of our neighbors today and gave away OVER 1,600 Memphis-crafted masks!
Special thanks goes to the elected officials who backed this project, the hundreds of donors that helped us fund it further, and the home crafters that made all the masks, just for you. This is what GRIT AND GRIND looks like!

Stay tuned! Due to the INCREDIBLE popularity of this event, it is likely we will do it again in the coming months.

Mask up, and keep caring for one another. ❤️

See you this weekend, North Memphis!

Masks For Memphis The “Masks for Memphis” project: enabling community leaders to participate, local crafters to receive much needed income, and underserved recipients free access to CDC approved, home-made face masks.