Whether it is a local flood or a national disaster, there is always one organization there to help, the American Red Cross. Each year the organization turns down no one in need, benefits 70,000 people in disaster relief, along with saving three lives every time a person donates blood. The American Red Cross has evolved through the years and is still known as one of the most important nonprofit organizations in the world.
The American Red Cross has been around since 1881 and is now the nation’s leading emergency response organization. At the beginning, the organization only focused on disaster relief and helped benefit the United States Armed forces. In 1940, the blood program was created under the leadership of Dr. Charles Drew.
Founded by Clara Barton and others worked to start the organization in Washington, D.C. on May 21, 1881. In Europe, their country had a Red Cross network that followed the Civil War. After returning from Europe Barton stressed that the United States also have a Red Cross. In 1882, the organization officially ratified the Geneva Convention which protected the injured from the war. Barton was the leader of the organization for 23 years. After resigning from the position, the American Red Cross started its first congressional charter in 1900. Five years later a second charter was started.
Prior to the First World War, the organization introduced its first aid, water safety, and public health nursing programs. After the First World War, the Red Cross focused mainly on the needs of veterans and providing for them. The American Red Cross volunteers to help local communities: military and military family members, lifesaving blood and blood products, education, health and safety, and international relief. T...
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The American Red Cross, a non-profit organization is implementing a new industry standard system called BioArch to track and process its blood products. The new infrastructure will improve the quality of its blood products since employees will be able utilize products based on inventory and age. The system also improves the product tracking process currently in place and it promises to improve customer relations since most competitors are already using the BioArch system. Currently, systems regionally are different and therefore inventory is kept separate. This creates challenges in meeting customer demands and it increases manufacturing manual processes.
Attention Getter: According to The Red Cross Foundation, the American Red Cross responds to more than 70,000 disasters in America each year.
Their work and basis is deeply rooted in its Catholic origins and it's deep basis in the Exodus paradigm and the Mosaic covenant. The Catholic Relief Services commitment to the poor and destitute in aiding them around the world through several means while still maintaining strong moral and physical standpoint by sticking to teachings of the Bible shows kinds of things that they can do using the teachings of Jesus. The organization does great work to help those all over the world affected by natural disaster.They have the strength to be a solid Catholic Institution but the ability to enact change all over the world. The fact that they keep the Catholic Social teaching principles in their mission statement and listed the forefront of their website shows how deeply committed they are to it as an organization. Come to realize how important the work of the Catholic Relief Services is even though it may seem large-scale, without the large-scale,the small-scale is ineffective.Create way for one to continue the work of the Catholic Relief Services end or to benefit it would be to donate to their cause so they can give supplies to the needy, or to volunteer as a ground soldier to the Catholic Relief Services. the two things the Catholic Relief Services cannot live without our manpower and supplies;the Catholic Relief Services is purely administrative and without these it is unable to function. Overall the Catholic Relief Services is a administrative juggernaut organizing aid to those in need around the
In 1880 the American Red Cross was established, Barton served as the organisations first president until 1904 but still continuing as a volunteer in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. The American Red Cross, with Barton at its head, was largely devoted to disaster relief for the first 20 years of its existence.
The United States Congress chartered the American Legion in 1919. Its purpose was to benefit veterans and their families, promote Americanism and serve the greater good of communities nationwide. First welcomed to membership were veterans returning home from the battlefields of Europe. But over the years, Congress amended the Legion’s charter so as to include those who had served in World War II, Korea and more recent conflicts.
It is important to know how the Red Cross began. It was in June 1859 when Henry Dunant went to Solferino, north of Italy. He was a spectator of a small but bloody war. French and Italians had a battle against Austrians. There were more or less 40,000 victims. He was completely horrified with the scene. He interrupted his trip to help the hurt and organized volunteers to save lives.
The American Red Cross is a nonprofit organization that has made its mission to help people worldwide and help make our world a better place. The American Red Cross has supported the military families of America, provided Disaster Relief, Health and Safety Training and Services, Blood Drives, and other endless services since 1881. Clara Barton and a few close associates founded the American Red Cross in Washington, D.C. on May 21, 1881.
After returning home to the United States, she began to build the American branch of this organization up. The American Red Cross Society was founded in 1881 and Clara Barton became its first president. Clara Barton resigned from the American Red Cross in 1904 because of financial mismanagement. She never took a salary for her work within the organization and sometimes used the funding she got to continue to support the cause. Barton died at her home in Glen Echo, Maryland, on April 12,
She begins locating missing prisoners of war. Then the Franco-Prussian War breaks down on July 15. Barton helps the International Red Cross relief efforts. Clara was determined to establish the Red Cross Association. Even though some members accused her of stealing and mismanaging the Red Cross funds. Barton didn’t believe them and moved on from there. In 1873, Clara returns to the United States in October determined to convince the United States to sign the Geneva Convention. The American Red Cross Association meets for the first time on May 21, 1881. During the Michigan forest fire the American Red Cross offers help for the first time. In St.Petersburg, Russia Clara attended the Seventh International Red Cross conference during the summer of 1902. On May 14, 1904 Barton turns in her resignation as a president of the American Red Cross.
Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross in 1881 and served as the president for the next 23 years, until 1904. During the Civil War, Barton served as an aid to wounded soldiers, but before she went to the battlefield, collected bandages and supplies to deliver to the soldiers of both the North and the South. During her time serving on the battlefield, she was given the nickname “Angel of the Battlefield.” In 1869, she went to Geneva, Switzerland, where she learned about the Treaty of Geneva, which was their Red Cross, which provided relief for sick and wounded soldiers. Her inspiration was set off when Barton discovered that the United States did not sign the treaty or have a way to support the soldiers, so decided that she was going to take it into her own hands and campaign until the treaty was ratified and eventually the American Red Cross was formed. Clara Barton was passionate about America having an organization to help the soldiers, so she went for it, succeeded and now is well known. The American Red Cross is still alive today, and has changed the lives of soldiers by having nurses there to help them when they have been wounded from war and giving help to those in distress.
Did you know that every 2 seconds someone in the United States needs blood? Where does that blood come from? The American Red Cross, is a nonprofit humanitarian organization. It assists with disaster relief and provides emergency services to those in need. The American Red Cross has been around for aver 100 years and has come a long way in the process.
The American Red Cross founded in 1881 by Clara Barton. After working during the Franco-Prussian War with the International Red Cross, she became the first president and she would oversee assistance and relief for victims of disasters. As a child, Clara’s interest to help people began after her brother, David had fallen off a barn’s roof resulting in serious injury. Barton learned how to prescribe medications, place leeches on his body to help him bleed, and continuing aiding in his health until he made a full recovery after doctor’s had given up on him. Later on, her desire to help others led her to become a teacher at the age of 15. Afterward, she opened a public school in New Jersey.
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Specific Purpose Statement: To persuade my audience to donate blood through the American Red Cross.
So the Red Cross helps with natural disasters but is that all? No, it is not, the Red Cross will help anything that involves human suffering such as food shortages. One example are the southern countries in Africa such as Angola, Zimbabwe, Lesotho and Malawi