Drop It Like It’s Hot

Heat Safety Tips and a little warm weather fun.

There’s a Map for That: Our New Shelter Location Feed

Today we launched our much anticipated (internally anyway) shelter feed! It’s a Google map that is automatically updated every 30 minutes with shelter location and population information from our chapters.

Comparing the Chile and Haiti Earthquakes

Thanks to Rachel Weidinger for pointing to this infographic by Good, Inc. Stay updated on how the American Red Cross is providing relief to survivors in Haiti and Chile.

% of Overall Text Donations By State

Map and data courtesy of mGive.

Your Most Visited Blog Posts of 2009

The 10 blog posts you all visited the most this year.

Home Fires Map: How Many Fires Did Your Local Red Cross Respond To?

October is Fire Prevention Month so we though we’d show you exactly how many fires we responded to this year and give you some tips for preventing a fire in your own home. View Home Fires in a larger map This map illustrates the 63,111 home fires your American Red Cross chapters responded to in [...]

What We’re Watching: Personas

Check out this amazing data visualization tool some smarties at MIT came up with. They call it Personas. Try putting in “American Red Cross.” The results are incredible. Hat tip: @momanmars

Maps: Red Cross Disaster Response this week

We have a lot going on across the country this week. I thought it might be easiest to see a glimpse of our multiple responses in the form of a map. View Larger Map

2008 Inaugural American Red Cross Humanitarian Award Winners Announced

Drumroll, please. Yesterday here at headquarters, the inaugural American Red Cross Humanitarian Award was bestowed upon Younis Al-Khatib (President, Palestine Red Crescent Society) and Noam Yifrach (Chairman of the Executive Committee, Magen David Adom in Israel) for the historic work they have accomplished in establishing a formal, ongoing collaboration which has resulted in a more [...]

Red Cross, North Carolina: A Geographical Discovery

Just outside of Charlotte, NC, a small town by the name of Red Cross is bustling and growing. There’s nary a mention of it on Wikipedia, but it’s been there since 2002. We have a call into their town council to find out how they came to be named. Your mission, should you choose to [...]