TwitterEver wonder how Red Crossers manage to work together in Europe? They have developed the European Coordination Committee. The ECC is a group of people elected by European National Society youth representatives at a biennial European Cooperation Meeting. The ECC team for 2005-2007 was made up of 7 members from Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Iceland, [...]
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The American Red Cross of Central Florida (Orlando) Teen Corps program hosted an electric slide-a-thon. The event took place on the center stage at the Fashion Square Mall. Youth danced non-stop to the electric slide to raise money for the Measles Initiative. An informational booth was set up to inform people about the Measles Initiative [...]
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The Cincinnati (Ohio) Area Chapter teamed with Cincinnati Public Schools to provide Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) classes for local students and adults. Teen CERT provides participants with disaster preparedness training for hazards that may impact their area and trains them in basic disaster response skills such as fire safety, light search and rescue, team [...]
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This PSA aired last night during Game 1 of the NBA Western Conference Finals (Spurs vs Lakers).
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I’m a Youth Director. I’m fundamentally against Facebook. Or I was. Until recently. As a Youth Director, the last thing I wanted was to get in my youth volunteers’ business – knowing that the information they post about themselves isn’t always ‘Red Cross appropriate’. I appreciate the time they spend talking to me about the [...]
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Organizing and executing a fundraiser to help children in third world countries is not an easy task, but the students of the Columbia High School International Club in White Salmon Washington did it and did it well. Using determination, hard work and community partners, these students worked together to raise over $730.00 dollars for the [...]
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Dickinson College and the Cumberland County Chapter (Carlisle, Pa.) have joined forces to provide relief to area residents during a disaster. Twenty students will be working together as members of chapter Disaster Action Teams. When Dickinson College students are not responding, they will be teaching Masters of Disaster to children in the community through various [...]
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I sincerely apologize for the delay in announcing the winner of the t-shirt design contest. I am managing the judging process, so I speak from personal experience when I say it has not been easy. We are going through one last round of judging now and expect to notify the winner by the end of [...]
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As a follower of the news (a result of my being a political science major in my life outside the Red Cross), I was very happy to see one of the morning blogs in Monday’s New York Times online talk about the role of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement in response to [...]
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The Heartland Chapter (Omaha, Neb.) Youth Council celebrated 90 years of the Junior Red Cross by holding a spaghetti dinner, which raised $743 in support of their programs. The dinner was part of an open house at the chapter celebrating Red Cross Month. The evening included a Look Behind the Red Cross, a historical program [...]
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