Each year over one million Americans serve as Red
Cross volunteers serving local community needs —
helping people in emergencies, providing half the
nation's blood supply, teaching first aid and CPR
courses, delivering emergency messages to members
of the military, organizing programs for the elderly,
for the youth…
Red Cross volunteers work directly with people, serve
on boards of directors, serve as managers, advisors,
and provide behind the scenes support. Be
a Red Cross volunteer! Helping others feels good and
helps you feel good about yourself. Your local Red
Cross can work with you to provide rewarding experiences,
opportunities to utilize your talents, or provide
training to help you serve your community.
Too busy? Your local Red Cross can work with you to
provide rewarding experiences, whatever your schedule.
Think you don't have any skills to offer? You'd be
surprised.
We
depend on volunteers, who constitute 97 percent of
our total work force, to carry on our humanitarian
work:
- Every
year, the Red Cross is there for hurricane, earthquake,
and other disaster victims--including 150 families
forced from their homes by fire every day.
- 175,000
volunteers worked to prevent, prepare for and respond
to nearly 64,000 disaster incidents last year.
- Over
15 million Americans turn to us to learn first aid,
CPR, swimming, and other health and safety skills.
Last year, more than 230,000 people volunteered
to teach those courses.
- Half
the nation's blood supply--six million pints annually--is
collected by more than 190,000 Red Cross volunteers.
- Among
our emergency services for the men and women of
the armed forces is the delivery of urgent family
messages--one every 22 seconds.
If
you are ready to volunteer take a look at some of
our volunteer job descriptions…
Administrative/Clerical
Community
Event Volunteer
Courtesy Caller
Disaster
Action Team
Disaster
Health Services and Disaster Mental Health Services
Knit
and Crochet
Maintenance
Resource
Coordinator
Volunteer
Instructors |
