“Just Routine, Really.” On Duty and Response with Red Cross Volunteers Story and Pictures: Ed O’Brien – Red Cross Public Affairs Volunteer On a cold mid-November afternoon, in a tightly packed mobile home park in Brighton, a small fire in a garden shed spread to two adjacent structures, rendering each trailer uninhabitable. This fire displaced […]
Manyang Reath Ker, Wednesday’s Lunch and Learn speaker There are situations in which someone could be forgiven for giving up hope, and this month’s lunch and learn speaker, Manyang Reath Ker, has been in many of them. Manyang, a “Lost Boy” displaced by the Sudanese civil war, spent 13 years of his young life hungry, […]
By Andrea Stone/American Red Cross Forgotten for more than 30 years, it was a piece of Red Cross histoy wrapped in the pages of history. Painting by Glen Ault completed in 1943-44 to supportRed Cross blood drives during WWII. Photo byAndrea Stone/American Red Cross When 84-year-old Rosemary Ault was doing her spring cleaning, she found […]
Have you ever heard of a “three dog night”? No, not the musical group from the 70s but stories from surviving extreme cold. Back in the day during extreme cold people would allow their dogs to sleep in bed with them and the colder it got the more dogs they needed. A really, really cold […]
by Kayla Albert, Behind The Red Volunteer Getting involved in the community – especially for active professionals with a full plate of responsibilities – can be a huge challenge. Behind the Red, a group that supports the Red Cross through fundraising efforts, volunteerism, and advocacy, hopes to bridge that gap. With this group, professional development […]
In 2014, the American Red Cross is celebrating 100 years of service in Colorado and Wyoming. As part of our year-long efforts to honor our past and build the foundation for another century of service, the Red Cross Colorado & Wyoming Region is renovating the regional headquarters to create better meeting and training spaces, improve […]
By Lisa Price Waltman/American Red Cross Years ago, for some reason my young son had replaced the phrase “Daylight Savings Time” with “Daily Savings Time” and in our home, it has remained just that. When I thought about his unintentionally jumbled words I realized he actually had a great point. Are we really “saving” daylight […]
by Patricia Billinger When Denver Broncos fans gleefully celebrated Peyton Manning’s feat surpassing the all-time career passing touchdown record on Sunday, the folks here at the American Red Cross in Denver did an extra celebration dance. We knew the historic moment not only was worthy of celebration in its own right, but also boded well […]
By Melody Storgaard On October 18, volunteers from the American Red Cross, Poudre Fire Authority and Hope Worldwide went door-to-door in a Fort Collins neighborhood surrounding Putnam Elementary School in an effort to save lives. The group of volunteers were targeting 139 homes that were selected due to higher risk of loss caused by home […]
Instructors teach the fundamentals of Disaster Assessment at the Disaster Academy in Grand Junction learn about Disaster The American Red Cross is always looking for dedicated volunteers to help carry out their mission to prevent and alleviate human suffering in the face of emergencies. Once enrolled a new volunteer needs to be trained so that they […]