Tag: American Red Cross

Red Cross to Sound the Alarm Against Home Fires By Installing 100,000 Smoke Alarms Across U.S. in 16 Days

Stuart Mitchell

The American Red Cross is getting ready to Sound the Alarm against home fires. From April 28 to May 13, thousands of Red Cross volunteers and partners will install 100,000 free smoke alarms in just 16 days in communities at high risk for fires. “Three out of every five home fire deaths happen in homes that don’t have working smoke alarms,” said Gail McGovern, President and CEO of the American Red Cross. “Please help lower these tragic statistics by joining us in this lifesaving effort to Sound the Alarm against home…

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March is Red Cross Month: Here’s How You Can Be a Hero to Someone in Need

Stuart Mitchell

March is Red Cross Month and the American Red Cross is asking people across the country to become a hero by giving blood, becoming a volunteer or making a donation to #help1family on Giving Day – March 28.   “The Red Cross is powered by our volunteer heroes who give of their time, talents and compassion to fulfill our vital humanitarian mission of preventing and alleviating human suffering,” said Gail McGovern, president and chief executive officer, American Red Cross. “They are people from your neighborhood who donate blood, who teach…

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Budweiser Celebrates Employees with New Super Bowl Commercial

Stuart Mitchell

Budweiser has recently released its Super Bowl LII commercial showcasing Anheuser-Busch employees, who together over the past 30 years have helped provide over 79 million cans of clean drinking water in response to natural disasters. The commercial will be timed with a new company commitment to add a second brewery to its emergency water program to increase its disaster relief efforts by the end of the year. Employees are the driving force behind the Anheuser-Busch emergency water program, which is centralized in its Cartersville, GA brewery. Together with the help…

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Red Cross Holiday Gift Guide: 3 Ways to ‘Give Something That Means Something’

Stuart Mitchell

After responding to a string of historic disasters, the American Red Cross is appealing to the public to “Give Something That Means Something” this holiday season. Beginning on Giving Tuesday, November 28, and throughout the Holiday Giving Season, donors can help bring hope and relief to children, families and communities that need it most with their holiday shopping. Beginning in late August, the Red Cross embarked on providing wide-ranging relief efforts in response to three historic back-to-back hurricanes—Harvey, Irma, and Maria—followed closely by the deadliest week of wildfires in California…

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