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If you like to help people you have come to the right place. Your Red Cross chapter
will have just the opportunity ? from training to be ready to respond to disasters
to supporting a blood drive from delivering health & safety education to connecting
families displaced by disasters or conflict.
Ready to Volunteer?
- Use VolunteerMatch to locate local Red Cross volunteer opportunities in your community.
Get Started Now!
If you are going to be a Red Cross volunteer, you can begin learning about the organization
right now:
We Depend on Volunteers
Nationwide, volunteers constitute 96 percent of our total work force to carry on
our humanitarian work:
- Every year the Red Cross responds to more than 70,000 disasters?including approximately
150 home fires every day.
- About 11 million Americans turn to us to learn first aid, CPR, swimming, and other
health and safety skills. Last year, more than 158,000 people volunteered to teach
those courses.
- Half the nation's blood supply? six million pints annually?is collected by more
than 155,000 Red Cross volunteers.
- Among our emergency services for the men and women of the armed forces is the delivery
of urgent family messages?around the clock and around the globe.
- More than 30,900 volunteers serve as chairs, members of boards of directors, or
on advisory boards for local Red Cross units - chapters, Blood Services regions,
and military stations.
- As part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Red Cross reconnects
more than 8,000 families separated by conflicts and disasters around the world through
international tracking services and Red Cross messages.
Volunteer Handbook
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