Microsoft i’m Initiative Raises $100K for Red Cross
For those of you that have been using Windows Live Messenger to communicate with your friends and also raise money for the Red Cross, you’ll be pleased to know that Microsoft has committed $100,000 to the American Red Cross on behalf of you and other users around the country. Read the full Red Cross press [...]
Youth Rescues Holocaust Survivor with CPR
This was submitted by an aquatics instructor in Baltimore… your CPR training really can save lives! # # # Unlike matzoh, Chelsea Smith rises to the occasion on Passover. Chelsea, an Owings Mills High School sophomore, proved that point last Sunday night, April 20, when she helped save the life of an elderly relative — [...]
Video from New President and CEO Gail McGovern
Contest Entries Being Reviewed
Thanks to everyone who submitted a design for our t-shirt design contest! We are currently reviewing the entries, and we expect to contact the winner on May 1. Keep checking back here for more info.
Youth Pays Tribute to His Mentors
I’ve been looking at the computer screen for about an hour now, trying to think of what to say; how to say it. I spent another hour typing introductory paragraphs, deleting them, staring at the screen, typing them again, and deleting them once more. I thought I would never get this blog typed. But then [...]
Youth and Seniors Attend Intergenerational Prom
The Youth Council of the Wyoming Valley Chapter (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.) held a “Senior” Prom at Manor Care Nursing Home in Kingston, Pa. The Youth Council provided decorations (later donated to the nursing home) and spent the afternoon talking and enjoying big band era music with the residents. The residents then participated in a game of [...]
The Red Cross Welcomes Gail J. McGovern as Red Cross President and CEO
Gail McGovern, a business executive and professor at Harvard Business School, was just named the next President & CEO of the American Red Cross. Ms. McGovern brings many skills to the table, including extensive experience in the business world, non-profit fundraising and marketing. Red Cross leaders have spent a significant amount of time ensuring that [...]
Volunteer Leadership Summit
Good morning everyone! I arrived in Houston last night for what is being called the American Red Cross Volunteer Leadership Summit. As you probably have already heard, the Red Cross is facing some tough decisions as we work to operate at a “balanced budget” by fiscal year 2010. This means that the structure linking national [...]
World Congress on Humanitarian Drug Policy
The 2008 Red Cross Red Crescent World Congress on Humanitarian Drug Policy was held in Barcelona, Spain from 5–7 March 2008. This congress brought together leaders of over 70 National Society from all over the world, along with representatives of the International Federation secretariat and other offices and centres of our Movement. The goal was [...]
Akron Youth Knit Their Bits
The Knit Your Bit program started as an activity during a recent trip of the Summit County Chapter (Akron, Ohio) youth leadership group. While there, the 11 participants learned to knit hats to help them realize the commitment made in the 1940′s by the civilian population to support soldiers. The activity was so popular that [...]
