American Red Cross

This week's featured charity: American Red Cross!

American Red Cross is an organization with five different areas of service: Disaster Relief, Training & Certification, International Services, Lifesaving Blood, and Military Families (1).

Founded in 1881 by Clara Barton, the American Red Cross is not a government agency, but it has supported the United States military at times. However, its impact doesn't end with the United States, as the American Red Cross does plenty of international work as well (assisting 73 countries) (2).

American Red Cross responds "to an emergency every 8 minutes", with 90% of the disasters they respond to being home fires. (3) They also help "to provide more than 40% of America's blood supply" (4).

Weekly Charity is not officially working with American Red Cross, but does encourage helping them out.

Statistics:

Charity Navigator gives American Red Cross: 3 out of 4 stars
Charity Watch gives American Red Cross: An "A-" rating
American Red Cross meets all 20 of the BBB Wise Giving Alliance's Standards for Charity Accountability.

Here's the American Red Cross website:
http://www.redcross.org/mo2

Thank you for reading about American Red Cross!

SOURCES

(1) The website, www.redcross.org, on the page, "About Us | Our Mission", retrieved from the url, "http://www.redcross.org/about-us", on Thursday, July 21, 2016.

(2) The website, www.redcross.org, on the page, "International Services" (in the folder, "About Us"), retrieved from the url, "http://www.redcross.org/abo…/our-work/international-services" on Thursday, July 21, 2016.

(3) The website, www.redcross.org, on the page, "Disaster Relief Services | Disaster Assistance" (in the folder, "About Us"), retrieved from the url, "http://www.redcross.org/about-us/our-work/disaster-relief", on Thursday, July 21, 2016.

(4) The website, www.redcross.org, on the page, "What We Do | Emergency Management", retrieved from the url, "http://www.redcross.org/what-we-do", on Thursday, July 21, 2016.