Live Blogging from Convention
Please be sure to check out our sister blog, Red Cross Chat, between now and Saturday! Wendy Harman will be blogging about all of the events and exciting updates from the national convention in Baltimore, Maryland! We will also be posting convention documents that could aid your youth program, so be sure to check back [...]
Ohio Volunteer Makes It Possible to Vaccinate 2,600 Children Against Measles
Hope Kostensky, a volunteer for the Summit County Chapter (Akron, Ohio), produced the Hope for Measles fundraiser, held at the First Christian Church of Stow in December. The fundraiser featured a pancake breakfast, games, raffles, face painting, a bake sale, entertainment (including her church choir), popcorn, hand-made jewelry vendors who donated a percentage of the [...]
What happens when the disaster’s over?
American Red Cross communications vehicle on the scene / photo: arlen On Monday night, I spent several hours at a fire on Valencia Street in San Francisco’s Mission district. A four-alarm blaze destroyed two apartment buildings, putting 59 people out on the street. I spent the evening checking in with clients, seeing if they had [...]
T-Shirt Design Contest Extended
Thousands of designers have visited the blog to check out the contest and we’ve gotten a lot of great submissions as a result. Thank you for your interest and excitement. Red Cross Biomedical Services (our partner in this contest) has decided to extend the contest deadline to April 11th. Their production schedule has been revised [...]
Closer to Expansion – Update from South Dakota
I apologize for my absence. Activity on my board has been slow until last week when we started rolling again. We are one step closer to expanding our chapter by eight counties! Last week the expansion committee had a conference call with our CSM and laid out what we would like to see happen if [...]
Red Cross Club Shelter Provides Lunch for All
Thanks to the Union County Chapter (Lewisburg, Pa.) the Donald Eichhorn Middle School was a “complete disaster” following the school’s annual tornado drill. Students in the Red Cross Club opened and ran a shelter, complete with Disaster Health Services and an ERV canteen, serving lunch to the entire student body. Over the preceding nine week [...]
University of Maryland Red Cross Club Founded
The University of Maryland is an amazing school. According to Heroism.org, “The University of Maryland offers 127 undergraduate degrees and 112 graduate degrees in 13 different colleges and schools, including the College of Arts and Humanities; the College of Education; the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences; Philip Merrill College of Journalism, which has [...]
Enthisuasm is High at the Grand Canyon Youth Club
The High School Youth Club of The Grand Canyon Chapter (Phoenix, Ariz.), started in 2007 with representatives from ten high schools, has kept itself fruitfully occupied. The enthusiasm and energy levels of the members are very high, as is evident from the various things they have done in such a short time. At the St. [...]
AmeriCorps Team Makes King Day a Day On, Not a Day Off
The Greater Carolinas Chapter (Charlotte) AmeriCorps team celebrated Martin Luther King Day with a day on instead of taking the day off. The team spent King Day educating the community about disaster preparedness. Seventeen volunteers went to local neighborhoods that have been affected by home fires in the past six months, delivering preparedness flyers and [...]
Community Supports Eagle Scout’s Comfort Kit Project
David Lindsey, a high school student, set out to achieve an Eagle Scout badge by pulling the community together and compiling 100 quality comfort kits for the North Central West Virginia Chapter (Fairmont). Local school students donated used backpacks; several businesses, schools, churches and a hospital helped gather supplies; and a grant from an area [...]
