American Red Cross of Greater Grand Rapids

Nothing like a little civil action first thing in the morning! In honor of the 60th anniversary of the Geneva Convention, the Red Cross is circulating an online petition via Facebook to support teaching international humanitarian law...

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The new national service initiative, United We Serve, kicks off today. Take a listen to First Lady Michelle Obama’s call to action for this historic program...

A great video shot on-the-scene by the Grand Rapids Press from the Birthday Bash shelter in Ionia this past weekend: Tagged: American Red Cross, american red cross of greater grand rapids, B-93, B-93 Birthday Bash, Birthday Bash, flooding, grand rapids, Ionia, red cross, shelter, the Grand Rapids...

Our neighbors to the (Mid)west are seeing quite a flurry (pun intended) of tornado action the past few weeks! A few tornado safety tips wouldn’t go amiss here in the Mitten — we don’t see a LOT of tornadoes, but part of preparedness is being ready for the unexpected...

The year 2009 marks the 150 year anniversary of Henry Dunant’s experience at the battle of Solferino. Dunant was a Swiss businessman looking to receive some important documents from French Emperor Napoleon III...

“Our world is in a mess. It’s time to make your move.” The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has launchedanew campaign:Our World. Your Move...

Greetings and Salutations, friends of the American Red Cross! My name is Cassidhe Hart, and I’m a new AmeriCorps member working as the Community Visibility Coordinator...

Apparently Mr. Bean is not Red Cross Ready. Make sure to one-up him and get trained. But while you’re registering for a CPR class, please enjoy this goofy little clip where he attempts to do CPR on a man collapsed at a bus stop...

Let’s face it…we have some pretty incredible volunteers. (That’s right, YOU…you are incredible.) Our chapter’s volunteer to paid staff member ratio is about 47 to 1, so that tells you that in all reality, our chapter could not possibly do what we do without our volunteers...

For the first time in 41 years, a global flu epidemic has been declared by the World Health Organization. According to WHO, increasing the alert to Phase 6 signifies that swine flu has spread to more countries but does not necessarily mean the virus is causing more severe illness...

OPPORTUNITY #1: Are you a Red Cross volunteer for our chapter? If so, you know what day it is! It is Volunteer Recognition Picnic day! We look forward to seeing all our volunteers at this fun event at Little Pine Island — events start at 2pm and the potluck/awards commence at 6pm...

To celebrate World Blood Donor Day this Sunday, June 14, we thought we’d play a raucous game of DONOR TAG! Thanks to all blood donors everywhere who give life to save a life. Go to www.givelife.org to find a blood drive near you...

Attention all who are still fanagling around with rabbit ears to get TV reception! When disaster hits or emergency strikes, the last thing you want to do is think, “Oh shoot! My emergency portable TV doesn’t work because I forgot about the digital TV transition!” Well, fear not...

Let’s face it — if you’re a parent, you know the dread of leaving your kids at home alone during the summers. It welcomes in a whole host of panic attacks, wildly inventive daydreams of all sorts of mischief and catastrophe, and more. But it doesn’t have to be that way...

Hope your CPR/AED Awareness Week is going just swell! This is just too great not to share: While this particular dinosaur advocates using Queen’s “Another One Bites the Dust,” others enjoy using “Stayin’ Alive” by the BeeGees...

It’s CPR/AED Awareness Week! From today through June 7th, there are many ways to celebrate! Ways to Get Down and Save Lives! 1. Enjoy this FREE online tutorial to be “Red Cross Ready”! (Note: This is NOT a substitution for taking an actual CPR/AED course.) 2. Take a course yourself...

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...

Our three area Olga’s Kitchens are tackling WEEK 2 of the month-long series of Friday Fundraisers for your local Red Cross! It’s very simple. 1. Bring in this flyer. 2...

Well, we’re no Jack Handey, but we have Henry Dunant, who founded the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement...