A global network of local support for blood donation

About Us

Takes All Types (TAT) is a not-for-profit company that uses online social networks to connect a new generation of blood donors to the blood collection organizations who urgently need them.

Why should we care about blood? Only 5% of Americans who are eligible to donate do so, and their average age is 50. Without a younger generation to replace them, our nation will face an even more severe healthcare crisis. 

TAT appeals to a socially active and civic-minded new generation of donors. Using this website and online social networks like Facebook (http://apps.facebook.com/takesalltypes/), MySpace, text messages (text 'BLOOD' to 69866) and other channels, TAT enables caring people to quickly and conveniently be on-call as volunteers and blood donors. Show the world your proud participation and encourage your friends to donate too!

Your participation saves lives. When you volunteer to become a Takes All Types blood donor, you’ll get personalized alerts whenever your local community needs your type of blood. You can receive the alerts by text message, Facebook, phone, fax, and e-mail, telling you where and when you can donate.

If we raise the number of donors who give by just one percent (1%) we can end the chronic blood shortage.


Our Team

Ben Bergman
Founder & Executive Director
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Matt Gordon
Treasurer & In-house Council

Bill Schmitt
CTO

Mark Henderson
Lead Developer
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Heidi Langeneckert
Lead UI Designer

Will Schwartz
Director of Business Development

Suman Som
Marketing Analyst

Jesse Stay
Contributor

George Spanoudakis
Contributor

Rich Fogle
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Advisory Board

The TAT Advisory Board is comprised of leaders in social media, non-profits, finance, medicine, public policy, and academia.

Michael Ryan
Founder, Chairman, EiG
Board Member, Healthcare.com

Andrew Rasiej
Founder, Personal Democracy Forum
Founder & Chairman, MOUSE

Jason Olim
Serial Entrepreneur

Nathanial Brochin
Founder, Rare Medium
Serial Entrepreneur

Katie Winterbottom
Interim Executive Director
Grassroots.org

David Pachter
CEO, Bond Street Group

Joel Smernoff
President & COO, Paltalk.com
Founder, Founders Club

David West Smith
Founder, Global Emerging Technologies

Ellen Cohen
Dean, Harris School of Public Policy
University of Chicago

Howard Siebel
Founder & Managing Director, Wharton Strategic Services

Matthew Gordon
Managing Director, Oak Street Advisors

Lawrence Haddock
Owner, HNB Partners
Principal, Tri State Ventures

Mark Herschberg
Technology & Business Program Director
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Pete Krainik
Chairman, the CMO Club