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 [...]

The Measles Initiative Launches a Blog!

Our innovative and enthusiastic Measles Initiative intern, Jeena, and our awesome AmeriCorps member, Sarah, who oversees the M.I., have lent their hands to help launch a new blog for our chapter!

Get the latest information on the Measles Initiative — what it is, how you can get involved, events to attend, and more! Who wants to [...]

Our Website Needs CPR!

Driven by our strong desire to best serve YOU, our community, we are rolling up our sleeves to begin on a website redesign that will streamline and reorganize our website to make it more efficient, user-friendly, and informative.

All those adjectives to say, our website desperately needs help and we’re counting on your input to help [...]

Target Gives and So Did You!

Thanks to all of you, the Red Cross received over 75,000 votes during
Target’s “Bullseye Gives” campaign on Facebook!
We came in a (very close) second place, with 26% of the votes, and raising over $793,000!

Just for perspective, and to keep with the “every 24 hours” theme — take a gander at an average day in the [...]

Have You Voted Today?

We can all use a gentle nudge now and then. Here is ours for today:
Have you voted for the Red Cross on Target’s Facebook “Bullseye Gives” campaign yet today?

You can vote once every 24 hours through May 25, and we’d hate to see your vote go to waste. Red Cross is currently in third place, [...]

We Gave In and Joined Twitter!

In order to fit in and feel hip and swanky like all the other Red Cross chapters who were cool before us, we decided to bravely step forward into the new frontier: Twitter.

Yes, that’s right, readers.
We are now Tweeting with the rest of world, including Ashton Kutcher and 10 Downing Street.
So follow us on Twitter!
We [...]

In Honor of the Serve America Act!

In an effort to make our blog a little less information-heavy and a bit more interactive, I am looking for ways to engage YOU, our readers. (If you have ideas, leave a comment!) During my travels, I stumbled across this fun game on the Oregon Trail Chapter blog (which is fabulous and will soon have [...]

Facebook Members Chose the Red Cross!

With 18,582 supporting votes, the American Red Cross placed first among eight non-profit organizations in the Western Union Foundation’s Our World Gives campaign!
Based on this endorsement, the Western Union Foundation will award the American Red Cross $50,000 in support of its life-saving mission.
“We are honored to have been selected by Facebook members as their favorite [...]

NEW Videos of Red Cross Hurricane Relief 2008

New Measles Initiative Video!

Check out this video about the Red Cross Measles Initiative.