Over 60 ConServe Employees Participate in Blood Drive Supporting Untys and the Red Cross

Continental Service Group, Inc., d.b.a. ConServe, a leading provider of accounts receivable management and collection services for colleges, universities, government and commercial markets is proud to announce over 60 ConServe employees donated a total of 53 pints of blood through blood drives held with Untys and the American Red Cross in March.  Their collective donations have the potential to save over 159 lives in local hospitals.

Mark J. Simon, President and CEO of Unyts said, “Thanks to organizations like ConServe, lives will be saved in our community.  We are grateful for the generosity of our blood donors each and every day.”

“ConServe’s mission includes ‘improving the human condition,’ and we are so proud that these are not just words – that our people live this principle,” said George Huyler, Vice President of Human Resources at ConServe. “The dozens of ConServe employees that took the time to give – literally – of themselves in March, will help save the lives of dozens of people. We are proud to partner with Unyts and the American Red Cross to donate the gift of life to other members of our communities.”

Founded in 1985, Continental Service Group, Inc. (d/b/a: ConServe), has provided accounts receivable management services in the higher education, government and commercial markets. ConServe was ranked as the #1 performing Small Business collection agency on the U.S. Department of Education’s student loan collection contract from 2004-2010. In 2009, ConServe was again awarded a long term contract by the Department of Education.

ConServe has also achieved the ACA International Professional Practices Management System (PPMS) certification. Less than 1% of collection agencies nationwide offer the benefits of this certification to their Clients. This designation is the collection industry’s standard for quality management. ConServe was a recipient of the Rochester Business Ethics Award, listed on the Inc. Magazine’s 5000 fastest growing companies, named a Rochester Top 100 company 11 times in the last 12 years, named by insideARM.com as one of the Best Places to Work in Collections and earned the Greater Rochester Quality Control’s Customer Excellence Award. Visit ConServe online at: www.conserve-arm.com.

The American Red Cross is the nation’s largest blood collection organization, supplying approximately 40 percent of the blood and blood products used in our country. The Red Cross is a not-for-profit organization that depends on volunteers and the generosity of the American public to perform its mission. To find out more about the organization, or how to volunteer, please visit www.redcross.org

Unyts is Western New York’s only organ, eye, tissue and community blood center. Headquartered in downtown Buffalo, Unyts has been saving lives through organ and tissue donation since 1981. For the past 6 years, Unyts has been supplying the hospitals of WNY with lifesaving blood. This wouldn’t be possible without generous blood donors. To find out more about the organization, or how to donate, please visit http://www.unyts.org.