Posted on January 31st, 2015 by Sarah Layton
Whether you’re a huge football fan, or are really just in it for the commercials, everyone has one shared Super Bowl experience: the food. Our calorie-fueled celebrations apparently fall second only to Thanksgiving. Solidarity, my friends. Luckily, the Red Cross understands your priorities this weekend, and we’ve put together four handy tips to help ‘advance’ […]
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Posted on January 29th, 2015 by Erin Ferris
As a regular blood donor for nearly 20 years and a previous employee of American Red Cross Blood Services, I understand the amount of time and energy that go into organizing a blood drive. Volunteer blood drive coordinators – from high school administrators, to student organization presidents, to church activities directors – spend hours on logistics, […]
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Posted on January 29th, 2015 by Jenelle Eli
When the Sixaola river dam collapsed in Guabito, Panama, the community was wrecked by severe flooding. But through hard work and perseverance, the town survived and thrived, prompting a local Red Cross volunteer to dub it, “the city that refused to die.” The American Red Cross works in Guabito and other disaster-prone communities across Latin […]
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Posted on January 29th, 2015 by Jenelle Eli
This post was written by Jono Anzalone, an American Red Cross division disaster executive who is on a month-long deployment to Liberia with the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC). It’s been three weeks since my plane landed in Liberia, where I’m helping the ICRC to put cash in the hands of families impacted […]
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Posted on January 27th, 2015 by Beth Pullias
Jenny Baragary is a senior officer with Development Opportunities at National Headquarters in Washington D.C. My cooking has set off a smoke alarm in more than a few instances. While it may have seemed like an annoyance as I frantically waved a towel by the smoke alarm to stop the beeping, it did provide some […]
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Posted on January 26th, 2015 by Sarah Layton
As a winter storm threatens millions of people along the East Coast, the Red Cross has winter storm tips to help you ride out the storm safely. (And if you don’t have an emergency kit together, start with that!) In your house: If there’s a power outage, go to a designated public shelter to stay warm. […]
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Posted on January 23rd, 2015 by Niki Clark
It’s almost become a cliché in the headlines. But in many ways, it’s true. It is a small world. While news of the measles outbreak at California’s Disneyland and information about vaccinations are making headlines this week, the American Red Cross has been focused on the virus—and its elimination—for nearly a decade and a half. Because […]
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Posted on January 22nd, 2015 by Sarah Layton
Nothing helps rally Red Cross chapters and communities across the country like a prodigious goal. And in October, that’s what the Red Cross laid out: Over the next five years, we want to reduce the number of deaths and injuries from home fires in the United States by as much as 25 percent. CAMPAIGN The home fire […]
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Posted on January 13th, 2015 by Beth Pullias
Marie Etienne, DNP, ARNP, PLNC is the chair of the International Nursing Committee of the American Red Cross. She is a specialist in family and pediatric nursing and is a professor of nursing at Miami Dade College. Flu season is upon us, and now is the time to take steps that will help you avoid […]
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Posted on January 9th, 2015 by Jenelle Eli
Five years after a massive earthquake struck Haiti, many still feel the effects of the disaster: family members lost, injuries sustained, and the patchwork of their hometown forever changed. But Haitians haven’t been sitting still in the aftermath of the tragedy. Instead, they have spent the past five years rebuilding, recovering, and living with optimism for the future. […]
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