April 27, 2019. Capitol Heights, Maryland. Photo by Dennis Drenner/American Red Cross By Gordon Williams The intent of the Red Cross Home Fire campaign is straightforward enough: to reduce home fire deaths by teaching fire safety lessons and by installing smoke alarms in households that don't have them. If times were normal, Red Cross … Continue reading How our virtual Home Fire Campaign can help save lives
Carly Vester brings unique skills to Red Cross Comms
Carly Vester joined the Red Cross volunteer communications team in February, 2021 By Ray Lapine The films were shown, drive-in style, on an improvised screen hung between two silos. That was the Oregon Documentary Film Festival's adaptation to the challenges of the Covid-19 epidemic. Carly Vester, the newest volunteer on the Red Cross Northwest Region … Continue reading Carly Vester brings unique skills to Red Cross Comms
How High Schooler Marie Hafez serves the Red Cross
Marie Hafez (right) serves as a Community Volunteer Leader for the American Red Cross By Gordon Williams When 17-year-old Marie Hafez first volunteered at the American Red Cross office in Kennewick WA, last August, she intended her tenure to be just long enough to finish a project for her high school Social Justice class. It … Continue reading How High Schooler Marie Hafez serves the Red Cross
Tacoma Mayor proclaims March as Red Cross Month in the city
Tacoma Mayor Victoria Woodards proclaims March as Red Cross Month in the city of Tacoma during the virtual city council meeting on March 2 By Abby Lutz Tacoma Mayor Victoria Woodards proclaimed March 2021 as Red Cross Month in the city of Tacoma during Tuesday night’s virtual City Council Meeting. “I encourage community members to … Continue reading Tacoma Mayor proclaims March as Red Cross Month in the city
Red Cross continues long partnership with PEMCO Insurance
PEMCO's MJ Vigil sits with students at a safety event in 2018 By Gordon Williams Every Red Cross chapter has a board of directors, with its members chosen to represent all the diverse elements that make up the community which the chapter serves. Over the last decade, PEMCO Insurance has shared the expertise of … Continue reading Red Cross continues long partnership with PEMCO Insurance
How Red Cross brings cheer to Walla Walla veterans
The granddaughters of a Red Cross volunteer participate in a "window visit" at the Walla Walla VA, February 2021 By Gordon Williams The monthly “window visits” by Red Cross volunteers to residents of the Veterans Home in Walla Walla WA have grown into something special. Yet as explained by volunteer Carolyne Meagher, who leads the … Continue reading How Red Cross brings cheer to Walla Walla veterans
What Lisa Bergman does as a Red Cross Community Volunteer Leader
Lisa and Kate from “Nana Kate’s” restaurant in Selah WA By Gordon Williams There is a very simple reason why Lisa Bergman of Yakima WA is such a super-busy volunteer in the Red Cross Central and Southeastern Washington chapter. It is because Michele Roth, the chapter’s executive director, can’t be in two places at one … Continue reading What Lisa Bergman does as a Red Cross Community Volunteer Leader
Red Cross blankets Tri-Cities with donations
By Diane Toomey The Central and Southeastern Washington chapter of the Red Cross had a challenge on their hands: several hundred non-standard blankets that could not be used in shelters. The search to find new homes for the blankets had gone on sporadically for some time. A few were given away here, a few there, … Continue reading Red Cross blankets Tri-Cities with donations
High School students map the world with their Red Cross Club
Kiran Mitra, a sophomore, and her brother Kaustav, a freshman are part of the Red Cross club at The Overlake School By Ray Lapine On any Saturday, members of the Red Cross Club at The Overlake School in Redmond WA can almost literally touch another part of the world to help victims of disasters that … Continue reading High School students map the world with their Red Cross Club
Volunteer Sharon Andrews takes a new role in Red Cross technology
By Gordon Williams Sharon Andrews It takes willing hands and compassion to carry out the Red Cross mission of aiding disaster victims and managing the nation's blood supply. But it also takes a ton of technology to make sure that mission is carried out effectively and efficiently. Volunteer Sharon Andrews of Spokane WA says she … Continue reading Volunteer Sharon Andrews takes a new role in Red Cross technology
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