Our New Website is HERE!

After several months of intense planning, designing, writing, and not a little blood, sweat and tears, our new website is finally HERE!

We’ve shaved down to the memorable moniker of www.redcrossggr.org and are excited for you to see all the new things we offer! We appreciate your unending patience as we work out all the inevitable [...]

Tulips are good for the soul

As part of our AmeriCorps term of service, we participate in a service project each month, usually working outside the American Red Cross with another organization.  For our October Service project, one of our members found a volunteer needs posting entitled “tulip planting.”  So we piled into a van and made our way to Holland, [...]

Welcome to our new CEO, Cheryl!

This past February, we waved a melancholy goodbye to our former CEO, Lisa, as she made the difficult decision to leave our organization to be with her family down south. Our board named our Chief Development Officer, Cheryl Poel Bremer, as our interim CEO while they conducted a very thoughtful, lengthy search for a new [...]

Registering “Safe and Well” for Victims of American Samoa Earthquake/Tsunami

The American Red Cross is urging anyone who has family or contacts in American Samoa to register “Safe and Well.”

After a 8.0 earthquake erupted yesterday, causing a tsunami that has hit American Samoa, the American Red Cross is responding quickly. The Red Cross is currently setting up operations to assist [...]

Tuk-Tuk for a cause?

The Great Sri-Lankan Tuk-Tuk Challenge sounds like something the venerable (and fictional) Doctor Dolittle would have participated in. 
No fiction here.  It was a real event in which people all over the world raced small, rickshaw-like taxis – called tuk-tuks – around Sri Lanka for nine days. 

Some of the proceeds from the race went to the Sri [...]

Photos of California Wildfires

Boston.com’s The Big Picture features an incredible selection of photos from the wildfires going on out in California.

To see all the photos, click here.
To follow the Red Cross’ relief efforts in California (the “arm” to our “Mitten”, as I like to think of it), click here.
To make a donation to the National Disaster Relief Fund, [...]

Words from Our Fearless Leader

National American Red Cross CEO, Gail McGovern, made a speech to the National Press Club yesterday, speaking about the triumphs and challenges she’s encountered in her first year. Her speech, Nagivating a Nonprofit through Turbulent Economic Waters, was a resounding hit, so we’re providing the transcript on here for those of you that are interested!
Read [...]

Use Your Facebook Time for Good, Not Evil

Your day is lagging, your brain has begun to get fuzzy, and you can’t concentrate on homework or projects or spreadsheets anymore. You must escape.
So what do you, like approximately 30 million other people, do?
You get on Facebook.

Then comes the user’s guilt.
“Should I really be wasting my time on Facebook, updating my status about how [...]