Wow, I have learned a few things today (in no particular order): 1) Americans Love Ice Cream 2) Americans LOVE Trace Adkins 3) Americans love the American Red Cross Remember to include these when posting your Macadamia Maple Mashup Madness pics (and keep ‘em coming – you’re doing GREAT!) @RedCross @TraceAdkins #celebapprentice #macadamiamashup #TeamTrace Here [...]

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When it comes to people in India, there are only big numbers.  More than 1.2 billion people live in the country, and about 27 million children are born there every year. For measles control, India is also thinking big. Health workers are in the final phases of vaccinating 134 million kids from ages 9 months to [...]

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“volunteer” For most of us, the word brings to mind those who give their whole selves to serving others. These kind, generous, selfless individuals immerse themselves in a particular cause or charity, and from our living room couch we read about how they feed and clothe the poor, house the homeless, care for the sick [...]

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Deployed or at home, I like to end my day with a run. You don’t need much, just open road or trail (or my least favorite a treadmill). I’ve run almost every day of my 4+months in Afghanistan, including the races on base. We are currently in the process of planning a race in conjunction [...]

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This story comes to us from one of our blood drive volunteers, Kim Elizabeth Manning, who is willing to do just about anything to make our blood donors feel welcome When something great happens, you probably cheer loud and exuberantly … but what if you’re deaf, or the person you’re cheering for is deaf? Recently, [...]

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No word of a lie: quite possibly my favorite phrase from our Canadian friends up north. Since today is a day most people devote to fooling others, I thought I’d mix it up a bit and air some of my Red Cross-related secrets for the world to know. Yup, these are all the honest truth. [...]

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I deployed to Kuwait in January 2003, as part of the American Red Cross Service to Armed Forces team. We were conducting our ongoing mission of connecting military members to their families. I had been to Kuwait before, having spent most of 2001 on the same camp, but this time was different. In mid March, [...]

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Zack Gross is a fellow for the Restoring Family Links program in the Los Angeles, CA chapter of the American Red Cross. Q. Tell me a little bit about what you do as an RFL fellow. What is a typical day for you? A. For starters, the Restoring Family Links program aims to reconnect people [...]

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After the release of the Tornado App this week I started wondering what the Wizard of Oz would be like if we had equipped some of the characters with our smart phone apps…Would the story turn out any differently? Let’s start with the actual tornado that seemed to cause all this nonsense. Well, technically, if [...]

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MARCH is RED CROSS MONTH  The tradition of March is Red Cross month started in 1943 during World War II. Prior to that, the Red Cross ran Roll Call campaigns. Begun during World War I, these fundraising campaigns were done in the fall. When the United States entered World War II in December 1941, the [...]

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