Wells Fargo has furthered the Red Cross mission and ensured that local communities are better equipped to handle emergencies. Wells Fargo continuously supports the Red Cross community preparedness and disaster relief efforts as well as the Disaster Readiness Summit and Paint the Town Red Gala.
7/25/2010 - Club Red Comedy Night at the Purple Onion was a Great Success
Club Red packed the house at The Purple Onion comedy club in North Beach, raising $1,270 for local disaster readiness and relief work while enjoying a night of hilarious comedy, socializing and raffle prizes including a two night stay in Venice Beach. Among the comedians who performed was the chapter’s very own Stacy Williams, who brought down the house.
7/25/2010 - Thanks to Community Events Volunteers for Making the Red Cross Proud at Pride
The American Red Cross Bay Area Chapter participated in the Gay Pride Parade for the fourth year in a row and received local coverage for the first time on KOFY. This year's theme was “Sexy CPR.” Fifty volunteers and staff marched (and danced) alongside the Bay Responder dressed like nurses and CPR instructors and handed out goody bags filled with CPR discounts, preparedness brochures, pocket first aid kits and mints.
7/25/2010 - Bay Area, Silicon Valley and Santa Cruz Chapters Partner to Prepare Latino Community for Potential Spread of the Flu
The American Red Cross Bay Area, Silicon Valley and Santa Cruz Chapters joined forces to prepare local Latinos to combat the flu and other emergencies. These chapters were able to come together thanks to a generous grant from the University of California, Berkeley.
7/25/2010 - 38th Annual Youth for Chinese Elderly Luncheon Draws its Largest Crowd Ever
On Monday June 7, the American Red Cross Bay Area Chapter Youth for Chinese Elderly (YCE) program held its 38th annual luncheon at the Far East Café in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Despite the current economic downturn, this year’s celebration of the YCE program drew its largest crowd yet, with nearly 400 people in attendance.
7/25/2010 - Preparedness Instructor Sou-Cheng Choi Starts Chinese Outreach Initiative
While graduate student Sou-Cheng Choi had already taken the steps to prepare herself in the event of a devastating earthquake in the Bay Area, she worried that her mother, who did not understand English, would not be as prepared.
7/25/2010 - Church Readies Community & Congregation for Disaster
When disasters hit, people turn to churches in the community. After all, churches provide the support they need in day-to-day life. It just makes sense to rely on them during the devastation of a disaster.
7/25/2010 - Deloitte Impact Day Trains More Than 75 Employees in Shelter Operations
It becomes increasingly important for corporations in the Bay Area to partner with organizations such as the Red Cross and prepare their employees in the event of a disaster or emergency. In 2007, the American Red Cross Bay Area Chapter launched Ready When the Time Comes (RWTC) a program that allows organizations to give back to the community by empowering employees to act as disaster relief volunteers during a major local disaster.
7/19/2010 - Red Cross Leadership Development Center a Great Success
The American Red Cross Bay Area Chapter held its annual Leadership Development Center (LDC) over the weekend. The LDC is meant to empower youth to get involved in their community. Over four days, Bay Area high school students build confidence and cultivated core leadership skills that will last a lifetime. The youth participating in the center created a spirit of volunteerism, to become leaders who make a difference in their schools, communities and the world.
7/12/2010 - Six Months Later . . . How the Red Cross is Helping in Haiti
As part of its largest international response since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the global Red Cross network has helped almost 2 million Haitians. In six months, the American Red Cross has spent and has signed agreements to spend $148.5 million to meet the most urgent needs of earthquake survivors. It will continue to support hundreds of thousands of additional survivors in the next several years until the last donated dollar is spent.
6/30/2010 - Red Cross Moving Supplies and Workers to South Texas as Hurricane Alex Nears the Coast
As Hurricane Alex churns throug the Gulf of Mexico toward south Texas and Mexico, the American Red Cross is positioning workers, shelter and feeding equipment and emergency vehicles in Texas.
6/21/2010 - Asian Community Preparedness Trains the Consulate for the People’s Republic of China
On Tuesday, June 1, 2010, the Asian Community Preparedness department headed off to the Consulate for the People’s Republic of China located in San Francisco. For over an hour, Sophia Wong delivered a highly informative disaster preparedness presentation to more than 60 of the consulate’s workers and their families. Many of those in the audience were learning about preventative and potentially lifesaving information about how to prepare for disasters such as earthquakes for the first time in their lives.
6/21/2010 - A New Twist on Personalizing your Disaster Survival Kit
Every day, volunteer preparedness instructors are explaining what goes in to a disaster survival kit. We talk about non-perishable foods, cans of tuna, peanut butter and other foods that store well when there is no electricity for refrigeration.
6/21/2010 - Health and Safety Instructor Dennis Kim Makes a Difference in Retirement
As a retired war veteran in his native state of Hawaii, Dennis Kim knew that he wanted to spend his retirement helping others and making a difference. In 1993 he approached the American Red Cross Hawaii State Chapter, asking what he could do to help. The chapter sent him to instructor training, and he was later able to become an instructor for lifeguarding, CPR and first aid.
6/14/2010 - Red Cross Survey Finds More Than Two-Thirds of Americans Experience a Summer Emergency
A new Red Cross survey shows that 68 percent of Americans have been involved in some kind of summer emergency, ranging from insect bites, heat stroke and broken bones to more life-threatening situations. One in every four people say they have been in a situation where someone needed CPR.
Americans plan to be very active this summer, as the survey found that more than 40 percent will go hiking or camping and almost 75 percent will go swimming. While people expect to be on the go, the Red Cross found that many were not confident they knew what to do in an emergency - less than two-thirds felt confident helping a heat stroke victim and fewer than half could help someone with an allergic reaction to an insect or snake bite.
5/18/2010 - American Red Cross Responds to Severe Flooding in the South
The American Red Cross is currently responding to severe flooding in the south. Red Cross teams are providing food and shelter to people throughout the south who have been forced out of their homes after two severe weather systems spawned flooding and tornadoes in Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Alabama and Mississippi. The Red Cross has opened more than two dozen shelters so far.
5/12/2010 - American Red Cross Continues Response to Devastating Tornadoes and Flooding in the South and Midwest
From the plains of the Midwest to the deep south, the American Red Cross is providing a safe place to stay and relief supplies for thousands of people displaced by tornadoes and floods. As relief operations continue full force in Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Arkansas and Alabama, the Red Cross has also opened shelters in Oklahoma after last night’s tornadoes.
4/30/2010 - Four Generations of the Jeong Family Provide Immense Support to the American Red Cross
Long-time Red Cross volunteer Audrey Jeong makes it her mission to make the Red Cross her number one charitable priority, and ensures that her children and grandchildren do the same. The Jeong family is involved with the Red Cross across four generations.
4/23/2010 - Red Cross Commemorates 1906 Earthquake by Urging People to Get Prepared Now
American Red Cross Bay Area President and CEO Harold Brooks was present at a press conference on April 13 while Mayor Gavin Newsom and Board of Supervisors President David Chiu commemorated the devastating1906 earthquake in the Bay Area. Speakers at the press conference highlighted the importance of getting prepared for the next major earthquake in the Bay Area.
4/23/2010 - Chinatown Community Gets Ready for Disaster at Youth-led Preparedness Fair
Top city officials and community advocates gathered on April 1 at Portsmouth Square Recreation Center in San Francisco’s Chinatown to launch the first annual Chinatown Preparedness Fair to enhance the readiness efforts actively taking shape in this local community. The fair, led by Youth for Chinese Elderly (YCE) volunteers on their spring break, attracted hundreds of people and featured speakers including David Chiu, President of the Board of Supervisors, Vicki Hennessy, Executive Director of the Department of Emergency Management and other local leaders who commended the American Red Cross and partners who collaborate to prepare this community for disaster.
