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Red Cross Month

Help Can’t Wait

Help can’t wait when emergencies strike. Your generosity through the American Red Cross provides immediate relief and hope 
Our Mission

Special Ways to Share in Our Mission

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Explore these opportunities to bring help and hope.

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Legacy

Donations

Turn compassion into action, remember the Red Cross in your will.
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Volunteer

Get Trained

Behind every life saved is a Red Cross instructor. Thank you for all you do!
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Blood Supply

Diversity in Blood supply

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Disaster Shelters

If you are in immediate need of shelter during a disaster, Use our shelter map to locate your nearest options
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Partners

Why We Give

Our corporate and foundation partners talk about why they support the Red Cross with their time, money and blood.
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Emergency

How to Prepare For Emergencies

Becoming “Red Cross Ready” for an emergency means following our simple steps
REGIONAL EMERGENCY

Platelet Shortage

Without more donors immediately, lifesaving medical treatments for cancer patients and others are at risk. Patients need you now.

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Be prepared and ready to respond at home and your workplace.

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Emergency Preparedness

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Choose One of Our Meaningful Causes
 

Honor the people you love with a donation to one of our meaningful causes below. 

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Select "Make This a Holiday Gift for a Loved One" and we'll send holiday cards or e-cards with your gift.

 

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Tips

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Tornado Safety Tips

Learn how to stay safe during a tornado, and how to improve your home’s ability to withstand tornadoes.

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Be Ready at Red Cross

How Schools Can Prepare for Disasters

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Resources to help schools prepare their community for disasters and emergencies

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Join the Red Cross Ready Rating™ Program

Join the Red Cross Ready Rating™ Program Is your school prepared for emergency? This free, self-paced membership program begins with a self-assessment

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Training

Offer Group Training - First Aid, CPR, and More

In an emergency, your faculty and staff may be called upon to help ill or injured students.

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Shelter

Enroll Your School as a Red Cross Shelter

Each year Red Cross chapters across the country train disaster volunteers in how to prevent, prepare for, and respond to disasters.

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Blood

Help the Red Cross Collect Lifesaving Blood

School gyms and cafeterias can be ideal locations to host community blood drives. Learn more about:

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Hosting the Drive

Staff

Encourage Staff to Prepare at Home

Share these resources with staff at your school or organization to encourage individual emergency preparedness

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CPR

Learn Hands-Only CPR

Learning this simple process can help save a life.

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Be Red Cross Ready

How to prepare for Emergencies

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Becoming “Red Cross Ready” for an emergency means following our simple steps in family preparedness to ensure you can weather a crisis safely and comfortably.

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CHECKLIST

How To Prepare?

Make a plan, gather supplies, and prep your home before the storm.

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Supplies

CHECKLIST

Make a plan, gather supplies, and prep your home before the storm.

  • Stock a 3-day supply: water, non-perishable food, flashlight, batteries, and medications
  • Know evacuation routes and keep emergency contacts handy just incase
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How To Prepare?

Make a plan, gather supplies, and prep your home before the storm.

  • Protect important documents and secure outdoor items
  • Stock a 3-day supply: water, non-perishable food, flashlight, batteries, and medications
  • Know evacuation routes and keep emergency contacts handy just incase

Donation

How To Donate?

  • Fill in the form
  • Find a Blood drive
  • Go through eligibility requirements
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HOST

Learn about Hosting

  • Apply for a Host
  • How Hosting a blood drive works

Emergency

How to Prepare For Emergencies

It’s as easy as 1-2-3!

  • Get a Kit
  • Make a Plan
  • Be Informed
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Make an Impact

How Your Donation Helps

In moments of heartbreak, your gift gives hope by providing shelter, food, relief items, emotional support and other assistance. 

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SHELTER

Red Cross responds always begins with a safe place to sleep, hot food, and a hug.

MEALS

Nourishing meals and snacks are distributed at shelters and through mobile feeding in hard-hit communities

SERVICES

Red Cross covers the cost of deploying licensed health and mental health workers , including meals and lodging.

SUPPLIES

Red Cross volunteers distribute cleanup kits stocked with essentials like a mop, broom, pail, scrub brush, disinfectant, gloves, trash bags.

DONATION

Schedule a Blood, Platelet or Plasma Donation

BECOME A VOLUNTEER

Find the nearest Red Cross blood, platelet or plasma donation center. Make a difference in someone's life, give the gift of life.

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