Ongoing Support Enables the Red Cross to Prepare for and Respond to Disasters Today the American Red Cross recognizes The Ball Foundation for its longtime support of Red Cross disaster relief around the world. The Ball Foundation, headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado, has pledged $250,000 to support the American Red Cross Disaster Responder Program. Through this […]
by Mary Jo Blackwood, American Red Cross volunteer National Nurses Week: May 6-12, 2020 Nurses are on the front lines of our country all the time, but never more than they are now, during the Covid-19 crisis. This year, as every year, the American Red Cross is grateful for our volunteer nurses and all they […]
Emergencies do not stop even amid our current health crisis. The Red Cross of Colorado and Wyoming has not changed its mission to people who live in our communities, it has however changed how we do our mission. Every day, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, volunteers continue to meet the needs of individuals and families who […]
by Andrea Carlson, American Red Cross of Colorado and Wyoming Thank you to our incredible volunteers and staff members who helped make this special delivery happen. We were able to give 35 cots to the Greeley Personal Isolation Facility, to help care for people who need it most. THANK YOU! Due to increased numbers of […]
by Andrea Carlson, American Red Cross Our incredible volunteers in Colorado Springs are helping people out during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our partners, like Catholic Charities and the Salvation Army, have been busy making meals for people who need and thanks to our amazing volunteers, they were also able to serve bottles of water with those […]
by Kate Walters, Red Cross Public Affairs Volunteer Red Cross volunteers and El Paso County staff have created hundreds of mask-making kits, each one containing the raw materials needed to construct 24 homemade masks. They are working to create enough kits to make 6,000 masks. Red Cross volunteers, Pam and Bob Munson, along with Bob […]
by Robert Thomas, Regional GIS Lead/DA/GO Volunteer I started volunteering with the Red Cross after getting involved with the Woodland CERT program in Northern California in 2005. That program partnered with the local Red Cross chapter to give the CERT members an outlet for additional preparedness training. I soon went through the American Red Cross […]
By Anna Blackford, American Red Cross Volunteer Hi! My name is Anna, and I am a sophomore at the University of Northern Colorado, studying Ecology and Evolution, and GIS. I grew up in Grand Junction, Colorado, and love to hike, spend time with friends and family, and binge Netflix! I started volunteering with the Red […]
By Kate Walters, American Red Cross Public Affairs Volunteer This is the history of how I found my passion: My thoughts go way back to the time that Hurricane Katrina cut a path of destruction through Florida and on to Louisiana in 2005. I was glued to my television in Colorado, watching scenes of the […]
By Rick Padden, American Red Cross Public Affairs I’ll admit, unashamedly, that I got into volunteer work because I simply needed something to do in my retirement. And being a Baby Boomer who grew up on John Wayne and Audie Murphy war movies, with Red Cross ambulances bravely plowing through the smoke and debris in […]