In my area you get a gift for donating. Usually a T-Shirt, but often a T-Shirt and a movie ticket, or a $10 gift card or once I got an insulated lunch box. The movie ticket era was nice because you could donate blood with your significant other and then go to the movies together, and feel good about donating. A good but weird date every couple of months
I’ve got a sister and a sister in law who both homeschool their 4 children each. Those kids don’t know how to read. It makes me pretty sick.