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80 Seconds
Approximately every 80 seconds someone will lose their home to a fire. That’s more than 63,000 fires a year that Red Cross volunteers across the country will respond to.
What We’re Reading
Libya, Hometown Heroes, Red Cross on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, and more.
ICRC Launches New Blog from the U.S.
Today, our friends at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) launched the organization’s first English blog from Washington, DC. Recently, I spoke with the man behind Intercross – …
Pole to Pole: the Red Cross Runs with Pat Farmer
This post was written by Kate Meier, Red Cross worker in North Carolina. It is cross-posted from the Red Cross Carolina Piedmont Region blog. Pat Farmer and Red Cross CEO …
Youth Design Contest
We are hosting a graphic design contest in which we invite youth to tell us in their own creative way of what it means to “Join the Red Cross.”
Beth Dunn: What the Red Cross Means to Me
By Beth Dunn Hurricane Bob hit Cape Cod at the tail end of the summer I turned nineteen. My mother was in charge of setting up the biggest shelter in …
Ellen F. Brown: What the Red Cross Means to Me
This guest post was contributed by the author to Writers for the Red Cross. Writers for the Red Cross is a month-long celebration that brings writers, readers, editors, literary agents and independent bookstores together to raise funds and awareness for the Red Cross during Red Cross Month.
Stephanie Cowell: What the Red Cross Means to Me
The Red Cross is the feeling I can do something for those people who could have been me, who are, however remote, somehow my family.
Get Trained in First Aid and CPR on Save a Life Saturday
On March 19, 2011 the American Red Cross will host Save a Life Saturday events across the nation in honor of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.